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• How often should you change your kitchen sponge? Microbiologist finally settles the debate - so, are you doing it enough?

  01-08-2026 13:03 via dailymail.com
  
  How often should you change your kitchen sponge? Dr Primrose Freestone, Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Leicester, has settled the debate.
  
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• What a drag: Shocking images reveal the strain PULLING a suitcase has on your body - as experts advise pushing your cases instead

  01-08-2026 13:01 via dailymail.com
  
  If you're one of the millions of holidaymakers dragging a suitcase behind you though the airport, you could be putting unnecessary strain on your body.
  
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• Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in

  01-08-2026 12:00 via theregister.com
  
  Weary travelers making their way through airports have enough to contend with these days without some Microsoft borkage popping up over departure information. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader identifying themselves as Ethel Grapefruit (Mrs), one of the information boards at Heathrow Terminal 5's check-in area has decided that whatever is running behind the scenes does not meet with Microsoft's approval, and requires activation. The message is familiar to many Windows users, and appears a
  
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• A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it

  01-08-2026 11:02 via theregister.com
  
  DEEP DIVE For the first time, Nvidia has directly challenged Intel and AMD's CPU dominance. With the launch of Vera, the AI arms dealer aims to flog its standalone CPUs to as many hyperscalers and other cloud providers as it can. Alibaba, ByteDance, Meta, Oracle, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, and NScale have already signed up to deploy the chips in their respective clouds. The follow-on to Nvidia's Grace CPU promises 88 custom Armv9.2 cores, 176 threads, support for up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory,
  
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• Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing

  01-08-2026 09:00 via theregister.com
  
  Cloud infrastructure services grew at their fastest for eight years during the second quarter of 2026, thanks to the AI craze and continued demand for flexible and scalable IT infrastructure. According to the latest figures from Synergy Research, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure passed $143 billion in Q2, a year-on-year growth rate of 43 percent. This followed 11 successive quarters of increasing growth rates, during which the market has now doubled in size. Synergy says that total ma
  
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• One of Elon Musk's discarded SpaceX rockets will crash into the moon at 5,400 mph next week - and is set to carve out a new crater on the lunar surface

  01-08-2026 01:27 via dailymail.com
  
  The rocket's upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, with the explosive impact expected to be the equivalent to three tons of TNT.
  
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