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Octopus Charge puts 210,000 US chargers in one app, without Tesla, Ionna or Electrify America
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Octopus Charge puts 210,000 US chargers in one app, without Tesla, Ionna or Electrify America

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from over 20 networks with no markup on

Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses
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Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

Cinemas became the latest institution to move against Meta smart glasses on Thursday. The UK Cinema Association said many operators are introducing policies to restrict

OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention
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OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

OpenAI has told enterprise customers that its promise not to keep their data will survive the next generation of models. The company set out the

Munich Re is buying cyber-insurer At-Bay for $575mn, half its 2021 price
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Munich Re is buying cyber-insurer At-Bay for $575mn, half its 2021 price

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

Munich Re has agreed to buy At-Bay, a cyber-insurance startup, for $575mn. The deal values the company at less than half what it was worth

The Pixel 11 paradox
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The Pixel 11 paradox

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

After a week of using Google’s new Pixel 11 phones, two seemingly at-odds realities are crystal clear in my mind: These are truly fantastic devices

YouTube starts funding shows directly to keep creators from licensing to Netflix
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YouTube starts funding shows directly to keep creators from licensing to Netflix

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

YouTube is offering some of its largest creators multi-million-dollar packages to keep their work off Netflix, according to reporting first published by Bloomberg. Several agreements

Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client
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Skanska takes a $1.2bn order to build four US data centres for an unnamed client

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

Skanska has signed a $1.2bn contract to build four data centres in the southeastern United States, the largest single data centre order the Swedish construction

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
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NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced Wednesday they are giving up on a robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray telescope before it falls out

Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
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Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

Last Friday, Google won an auction to acquire a huge amount of Spirit Airlines data. The data doesn’t include personal information or customer data, but

Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’
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Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are approaching their “ChatGPT moment”. He spent

Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI
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Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 20, 2026

Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed

When AI explains its decision, humans may stop thinking independently
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When AI explains its decision, humans may stop thinking independently

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 19, 2026

AI is known to be confidently wrong, and now it’s influencing humans to be that way, too. In a new study, researchers tested AI’s influence

OpenAI ‘temporarily slows’ scaling efforts, also promises zero data retention for select frontier model customers
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OpenAI ‘temporarily slows’ scaling efforts, also promises zero data retention for select frontier model customers

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 19, 2026

OpenAI this week announced multiple moves designed to counter negative perceptions of its security and privacy, saying it had slowed its pace of scaling, implemented

Samsung hiked foundry prices up to 15%, with China paying the steepest
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Samsung hiked foundry prices up to 15%, with China paying the steepest

Really Simple SyndicationAugust 19, 2026

Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for new orders, according to a Reuters report.

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