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May 1, 2026, 01:27 PM - 6 min read
The UK’s digital roads strategy entails much more than smart motorways. Even after the hiatus on building new smart motorways in England, there is still a growing ecosystem of digital and data-driven technologies embedded across the UK road network. These include roadside sensors to monitor traffic flow, cameras to detect incidents and infrastructure that communicates with control centres.
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April 30, 2026, 04:22 PM - 7 min read
The two tech giants join Atlassian, Block, WiseTech Global and Oracle, who have all made similar announcements this year, each evoking AI without outright blaming it.
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April 26, 2026, 12:38 PM - 7 min read
Advanced AI-based hacking tools make ransomwareaccessible to many more criminals and politically motivated hacktivists. Andaround one-quarter of breaches still result in ransom payments. For criminalssheltered by their governments, only the digital infrastructure is at risk ofbeing taken down by western law enforcement.
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April 20, 2026, 01:22 PM - 5 min read
The study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The same also applies to all bilateral animals, meaning animals whose bodies can be divided into roughly mirror-image left and right halves.
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April 19, 2026, 01:43 PM - 7 min read
Young people used AI to try on different identities, process real-life relationships, and re-author difficult real-life scenarios. Some people created “clones” of themselves, with superpowers or self-affirmingversions of themselves.
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April 15, 2026, 03:33 PM - 7 min read
If AI companionship becomes widespread enough to influence those norms, popular ideas about what makes a good partner may prioritise availability and responsiveness, displacing other aspects of love and affection.
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April 14, 2026, 01:57 PM - 6 min read
The stakes here are higher than with most forms of personal data. Neural signals are not like a credit card number that can be changed if compromised. Generated by your brain in real time, they can increasingly be used to infer things about you that you have not chosen to disclose.
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January 1, 2026, 01:47 PM - 6 min read
Remember that while a focus app can help you resist checking your phone, it cannot resolve the inner forces that pull you into distraction.
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December 24, 2025, 01:25 PM - 6 min read
A new study suggests inequality alone is rarely enough to drive instability. Instead, researchers found a crucial accelerant that transforms economic grievance into political action: the internet.
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November 13, 2025, 06:10 PM - 4 min read
Floated as a tender closing on November 20, this initiative promises to consign outdated jigs and paper blueprints to history in favour of laser-sharp digital guidance, slashing build times and errors on the factory floor.
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November 2, 2025, 02:57 PM - 8 min read
Drones may also help make agriculture more attractive to rural youth.
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May 11, 2025, 08:38 PM - 2 min read
The newly introduced system uses optical fibre cables, ensuring faster, more secure, and highly reliable signal transmission compared to traditional methods, he added.
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