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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 29, 2026, 01:18 PM - 6 min read
Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools generating the evidence within western science, however, have changed — from the philosophical and theological arguments of the Ancient Greeks to the development of increasingly sophisticated telescopes and space travel and exploration.
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April 27, 2026, 03:15 PM - 6 min read
By analysing observations of where landslides have occurred in past storms, alongside the underlying environmental conditions that increase landslide susceptibility.
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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 23, 2026, 05:09 PM - 5 min read
This new material offers a cheap, scalable way to make surfaces such as phones and hospital equipment far less likely to spread disease.
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April 21, 2026, 11:48 AM - 2 min read
The 65-year-old, who has steered the tech titan for over a decade, is set to hand over the reins to company veteran John Ternus, though Cook will remain closely involved in his new role as Executive Chairman of the board.
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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 17, 2026, 09:06 PM - 3 min read
The top leadership underscored the urgent need to accelerate capabilities for indigenous production of military hardware and strengthen self-reliance in defence to ensure long-term strategic resilience.
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April 17, 2026, 12:49 PM - 9 min read
Galaxies and stars from the contraction phase effectively collapse into black holes, erasing most of their detailed structure but preserving their mass. Could these black holes be dark matter? For decades, the leading candidate has been a fundamental particle — but none has been detected despite extensive searches.
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April 16, 2026, 12:33 PM - 6 min read
Malicious QR codes can redirect users to fake websites or prompt them to download harmful content. QR codes are so familiar and widespread, we tend to trust them without question. That’s exactly what scammers rely on.
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