Virgin Media O2's new in-store zone links everyday phone trade-ins to Britain's critical minerals shortage, with average payouts of £148 per device.
Category: Technology
Samsung’s New AI Health Assistant Tests Wearable Data Privacy
Samsung's new AI Health Assistant unifies wearable data into one feed, a concentration that lands squarely in a privacy gap only a 2024 FTC rule covers.
CEDIA Puts Smart Home Installers Ahead of Vendors for ISE 2027
CEDIA is prioritizing integrator-led, brand-agnostic proposals for ISE Barcelona 2027's Smart Home Technology Conference, covering AI, EU rules.
Microsoft’s KMS TPM Rule Echoes Last Year’s Piracy Panic
Microsoft's new TPM check for Windows activation servers mirrors a piracy panic cycle from late 2025, and this time virtual server admins face the real uncertainty.
Google’s Tensor Chip Still Trails Qualcomm After the TSMC Switch
Google moved Tensor chip production from Samsung to TSMC to fix its performance gap with Qualcomm, but the Pixel 10 still trails badly in benchmarks.
Walmart’s Cheap Onn Cameras Bring Google Gemini to Amazon’s Turf
Walmart's new $34.87 and $77 Onn cameras run Google Gemini and undercut Amazon's Blink, but the AI features that make them smart still cost $10 a month.
Nvidia’s AI Security Alliance Leaves Out OpenAI, Google and Anthropic
Nvidia's 37-member Open Secure AI Alliance excludes OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, the labs whose guardrail-bound models failed during the Hugging Face breach.
Makarewa’s AI Data Centre Echoes Southland’s Smelter Fight
Southland's $3.5 billion Datagrid data centre would trail only the Tiwai Point smelter in power use, replaying a decades-old fight over who benefits.
Gartner Warns Bad Data Will Sink 60% of AI Projects
Data readiness now decides whether AI agents pay off or fail fast, with most AI project failures traced to unready data, Gartner research finds.
Microsoft’s $29.97 Office Deal Comes With an Expiration Clock
Microsoft Office Professional 2021 is on sale for $29.97, but Microsoft's own lifecycle page sets its security support cutoff for October 13, 2026.










