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• The dome which could help machines understand behaviour

  16-10-2017 01:46
  Made up of over 500 cameras, the Panoptic Studio captures motion without the use of markers.
  
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• ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor

  24-07-2026 18:21 via theregister.com
  
  OpenAI is expanding its healthcare footprint by encouraging users to connect Apple Health data and supported medical records to ChatGPT - one day after a user sued the company, alleging the chatbot's medical advice nearly killed him. Health in ChatGPT, as the new feature is called, allows eligible users to connect ChatGPT to Apple's Health app in iOS, giving the chatbot access to health information users choose to share, including medical records, sleep, activity, and other data stored in the ap
  
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• Cloud outage blamed for 'breaking the internet' after major websites went down

  24-07-2026 18:14 via dailymail.com
  
  A widespread outage impacted dozens of websites on Friday morning, including Apple Pay, Reddit and Hulu.
  
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• Hate needles? World's first PAINLESS tattoo delivers permanent ink with zero discomfort

  24-07-2026 18:07 via dailymail.com
  
  If you would love to get a tattoo but can't stand the thought of needles, a UK-based startup has just invented the perfect solution.
  
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• Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met with ZTE to deepen cooperation in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI)

  24-07-2026 17:01 via theregister.com
  
  ZTE announced that Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, held a cordial meeting with Mr. Xiao Ming, ZTE's President of Overseas, Mr. James Zhang, Senior Vice President of ZTE, and other ZTE representatives during the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). The meeting focused on exploring and deepening bilateral cooperation in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence, marking a significant step forward in the longstanding partn
  
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• Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

  24-07-2026 16:48 via theregister.com
  
  Dougherty County Police Department (DCPD) near Albany, Georgia, is appealing for help from the local community after someone set two Flock Safety cameras on fire. Police initially investigated whether the automated license plate readers (ALPRs) had malfunctioned. After examining evidence from both scenes, however, officers reclassified the incidents as criminal damage to property. In an update communicated to journalists, reported by Fox 5 Atlanta, DCPD revealed nothing about what caused the fir
  
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• Britain goes crazy for charcuterie boards: Demand for French meats and cheeses has surged - as middle-class shoppers flock to stock up

  24-07-2026 16:37 via dailymail.com
  
  New figures released by Waitrose have revealed how demand for French meats and cheeses has soared in recent weeks.
  
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• Hurricane Fausto will make direct hit on US, spaghetti models predict

  24-07-2026 16:31 via dailymail.com
  
  Hurricane Fausto is taking aim at over one million people in the peak of the summer travel season, with projections showing a rare direct hit within days.
  
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• Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents

  24-07-2026 15:58 via theregister.com
  
  The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Salesforce a $1.6 billion, three-year contract to spread AI through the government service. The CRM giant has inked an Agentic Enterprise License Agreement (AELA), which, according to Salesforce, will give VA employees access to agentic AI, integrated data, and advanced collaboration tools intended to cut their admin workload. "Every minute a VA employee spends navigating disconnected systems is a minute not spent serving a Veteran," said Ke
  
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• SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no

  24-07-2026 15:00 via theregister.com
  
  SpaceX is gearing up for another attempt to launch Starship following a last-second abort on July 16 and a scrub due to weather yesterday. The 90-minute launch window for Starship's 13th flight test will open at 1745 CT on Friday, July 24. The launch was postponed by 24 hours due to weather, according to SpaceX. Elon Musk's rocketeers explained: "A key objective for the flight test is to get clear imagery from the ground of Starship's heatshield as it flies at a higher dynamic pressure during as
  
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• 'Half the internet' goes down as cloud outage disrupts major websites

  24-07-2026 14:27 via dailymail.com
  
  A widespread outage has impacted dozens of websites on Friday morning, including Apple Pay, Reddit and Hulu.
  
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• Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled

  24-07-2026 14:15 via theregister.com
  
  Marco Rubio says the US will deny visas to foreign nationals involved in cybercrime and may extend the restrictions to their immediate families. The US secretary of state announced the restrictions on Thursday, citing a rise in overseas investment scams "often orchestrated by Chinese transnational criminal organizations." Rubio said that in 2024, scammers defrauded US citizens of more than $10 billion, and additionally preyed on children through sextortion schemes that can "devastate families an
  
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• 'Half the internet' goes down as Amazon cloud outage disrupts major websites

  24-07-2026 14:00 via dailymail.com
  
  A widespread outage has impacted dozens of websites on Friday morning, including Apple Pay, Reddit and Hulu.
  
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• 'Half the internet' goes down in mysterious outage disrupting major websites

  24-07-2026 13:38 via dailymail.com
  
  A widespread outage has impacted dozens of websites on Friday morning, including Apple Pay, Reddit and Hulu.
  
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• LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in

  24-07-2026 13:29 via theregister.com
  
  LG has agreed to stop its Monitor App Installer pestering users with a McAfee pop-up after Microsoft's Windows boss intervened. Pavan Davuluri wrote on social media: "We've connected with the team at LG and as an immediate next step, they have agreed to disable the McAfee pop-up from their app. "We appreciate LG working with us toward a shared goal of a better experience for our mutual customers. We will keep improving here with our ecosystem partners." Davuluri was responding to a comment from
  
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• EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?

  24-07-2026 12:45 via theregister.com
  
  Replacing telecoms kit supplied by so-called high-risk vendors could cost European telcos up to €40 billion ($45.5 billion), with additional impacts on network performance and future investment plans. This is the warning in a report from GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the mobile comms industry's global trade body, the GSMA. It refers to plans by the European Commission to address potential threats to EU security posed by IT and telecoms kit from third-country sources. The proposed C
  
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• Inside one of sailing's most iconic races: Daily Mail's SHIVALI BEST joins 800 boats battling it out in the Round the Island Race

  24-07-2026 12:25 via dailymail.com
  
  While most spectators enjoy the race from the mainland, the Daily Mail's Science & Technology Editor, Shivali Best, was given the rare opportunity to watch from the water.
  
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• Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze

  24-07-2026 12:21 via theregister.com
  
  Fujitsu claims its addition to a UK government framework worth up to £14.9 billion, including tax, is consistent with its policy of freezing bids for new public sector work in the wake of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. The Japanese tech services supplier has been named on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 framework, which was amended this week. The Register understands Fujitsu's name was absent when the details of the contract were first published in February. Horizon is an EPOS
  
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• June heatwave cost the UK economy more than £1 BILLION, study claims

  24-07-2026 12:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) surveyed almost 2,000 Brits to understand the impact the record-breaking heat had on their working hours and ability to sleep.
  
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• Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs

  24-07-2026 11:15 via theregister.com
  
  Andy Burnham has found a novel way to back the local pub: make the digital marketplace help pick up the tab. The UK prime minister on Thursday promised pubs, social clubs, and live music venues in England a 20 percent cut in business rates from April 2027, a package worth around £100 million a year that the government says will benefit nearly 32,000 venues. Alongside it, ministers announced plans to squeeze more unpaid tax from sellers using online marketplaces. Rather than simply footing
  
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• Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to put data centres in SPACE - but experts warn they could be 'catastrophic' for the planet

  24-07-2026 11:03 via dailymail.com
  
  Data centres in space could be 'catastrophic' for the planet, scientsts have warned in response to plans laid out by some of the world's richest people.
  
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• Alan Turing wasn't an awkward mathematician! Gay short story reveals he was also a fun, cheeky man who loved sex, experts say

  24-07-2026 10:55 via dailymail.com
  
  A racy gay short story shows that the brilliant scientist who helped crack the Nazi's Enigma Code was anything but dull.
  
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• Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter

  24-07-2026 10:30 via theregister.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE Google invited residents living near its newly built datacenter north of London to meet the team at the local council offices on Wednesday evening – and was met with a barrage of complaints about poor consultation, noise, and light pollution. The Waltham Cross Datacenter (WXT), which was officially opened last year, sits on a 33-acre (133,546 m²) site north of the M25 motorway that encircles London. It is expected to provide up to 77 MW of IT capacity when full, but it is cu
  
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• Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine

  24-07-2026 09:32 via theregister.com
  
  Alibaba’s reign as the worst offender under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) lasted just four days, after the European Commission yesterday fined Google €890 million for breaches of the law –€340 million more than the Chinese e-commerce company will pay. Europe even fined Google twice – once for treating its own services more favorably in search rankings and the second time for failing to properly inform users of its “Play” app store. T
  
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• Is THIS why we haven't found aliens yet? Scientists claim extraterrestrial signals could be hiding on a different radio channel

  24-07-2026 09:02 via dailymail.com
  
  Researchers say we haven't found aliens because we have been tuned in to the wrong radio channel.
  
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• Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it

  24-07-2026 08:30 via theregister.com
  
  ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share readers' tales of tech support jobs that go south, pear-shaped, or just badly. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Lionel" who told us that in the 1990s he worked for an outfit that operated what he described as "big IBM computer centers running overnight COBOL batch processing jobs." When Lionel started this job, he was hired as an analyst and assigned to a new team. "My main job was the de
  
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• Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan

  24-07-2026 07:17 via theregister.com
  
  Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has acknowledged that the semiconductor giant must catch up to rivals AMD and Arm, and said it now assumes edge AI and robotics will be a business as big as PCs. Tan made those remarks during Intel’s Q2 earnings call, which saw the company report $16.1 billion revenue – a 25 percent year-on-year increase. “Q2 was another quarter of solid execution,” the CEO said. “Revenue, gross margin, and earnings per share were above our guidance. This marks
  
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• DARPA’s Pandemic Stack: Building The Pandemic Operating System Before COVID

  24-07-2026 06:11 via technocracy.news
  
  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was founded in 1958 and has been full of Technocrats ever since. It handed them dark money for projects hidden from public view. It was like a breeding ground for cockroaches. You can see the effect of “One Health” at DARPA, all of nature is fused together for a common outcome. Operation Warp Speed never would have happened. COVID never would have happened. PCR testing never would happened. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.PROPHECY, ADEPT
  
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• Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours

  24-07-2026 03:24 via theregister.com
  
  Azure users who use resources in Microsoft’s West US region endured an uncomfortable day after the tech giant cut off access to its Californian cloud outpost. As Microsoft explains in its preliminary post incident review, at 14:44 UTC on July 23rd (07:44 AM Pacific Time), the company started “routine device maintenance.” That effort immediately produced problems. “Multiple Azure services began to detect and correlate service degradation,” Microsoft’s review re
  
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• OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be

  24-07-2026 01:51 via theregister.com
  
  Open AI’s admission this week that its agents escaped the sandbox and autonomously hacked model repository Hugging Face has spawned more apocalyptic warnings of agents gone bad than we can count. Thankfully, Renato Marinho, chief research officer at Morphus Labs and a SANS Technology Institute instructor, brought some sanity to the discussion. “It is tempting to read this as ‘AI can now hack autonomously, the sky is falling,’” Marinho said in a Thursday blog. &ldquo
  
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