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Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX for $15m over claims Elon Musk’s firm illegally trespassed on land | US News
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The maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for $15m over claims Elon Musk’s company trespassed and damaged a plot of its land. A lawsuit filed in Texas alleges SpaceX treated a plot of land owned by Cards Against Humanity as essentially its own for at least the past six…
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From Wall Street darling to firm behind the world’s worst IT outage – who are CrowdStrike? | Business News
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CrowdStrike, the company at the heart of the IT outage being described as the worst the world has seen, has been a darling of Wall Street over the last year. So far in 2024, its share price has risen by 96%, making it one of the best-performing stocks on both the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the…
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Shetlands spaceport could see launch every month as firm counts down to rocket lift off | UK News
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A German company is set to use the Shetland Islands to send rockets into space – with plans to launch at least one a month. Rocket Factory Augsburg’s (RFA) chief commercial officer said excitement is building ahead of their “Olympic gold medal” moment this summer. If everything goes to plan, it will be Europe’s first-ever…
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DPD customer service chatbot swears and calls company ‘worst delivery firm’ | Science & Tech News
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DPD has disabled its artificial intelligence (AI) online chatbot after a customer was able to make the bot swear and write a poem criticising the parcel delivery company. Ashley Beauchamp, 30, was trying to track down a missing parcel when he said he was going “round and round in circles” trying to get any sort…
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UK-based quantum computing firm Quantinuum claims sub-atomic matter breakthrough | Science & Tech News
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A UK-based quantum computing firm claims to have harnessed an exotic form of sub-atomic matter for the first time, a feat they claim could revolutionise efforts to build machines infinitely more powerful than conventional computers. Scientists with UK and US-based Quantinuum, along with collaborators at Caltech and Harvard, say they have not just produced but…
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Google job fears in UK and Ireland as parent firm Alphabet slashes 12,000 staff globally | Business News
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Google workers in the UK and Ireland face uncertainty after its parent company Alphabet announced 12,000 jobs are to be axed globally. The Silicon Valley giant employs more than 5,000 staff in both countries, but the company would not be drawn on how the mass redundancies would impact them. The “difficult news” about the job…
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China invasion of Taiwan would cause major blow to high-tech supply chain, warns boss of semiconductors firm | World News
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If China invaded Taiwan there would be major impacts across the global high-tech supply chain “in weeks”, according to the chief executive of one of the most important companies involved in making vital semiconductor chips. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Doris Hsu, CEO of Taiwan-based GlobalWafers, also said customers have “a lot of concerns” about…
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Elon Musk’s medical firm Neuralink accused of welfare violations after killing 1,500 animals in four years – report | Science & Tech News
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A medical company set up by Elon Musk is under investigation for potential welfare violations – with a total of 1,500 animals dying in four years, according to a report. Staff at Neuralink have made internal complaints that animal testing is being rushed – causing needless suffering and deaths, Reuters says. Records seen by the…
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Founder of bankrupt crypto firm FTX Sam Bankman-Fried breaks his silence, with thousands locked out of savings | Business News
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A crypto entrepreneur says his net worth has fallen from more than $26bn to $100,000 after his company imploded. Sam Bankman-Fried admitted it has been a “bad month” after FTX collapsed into bankruptcy, leaving thousands of people frozen out of their savings. The 30-year-old, who once positioned himself as a saviour for stricken firms, has…
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Chinese tech firm Nexperia told to sell majority stake in UK microchip factory over ‘national security risk’ | Business News
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A Chinese-owned tech company has been told to sell the majority of its stake in a UK silicon chip factory due to security concerns. The government has said Nexperia must reduce its stake in Newport Wafer Fab by 86%, back to its previous holding of just 14% when it took over the firm in 2021,…