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People who pay for a subscription to livestream The Weather Channel via its dedicated smart TV app are seeing a 66.7 percent price hike. The TV app, available via Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, and Samsung TVs, used to cost $3 per month, or $30 per year. According to the Internet Arc

On Monday, Nintendo announced that it will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next February. That decision comes in response to European regulations that will soon require easily replaceable batteries in most consumer electronics. Rather than redesigning multiple original

Off the Wire Press Releases Scientists explore the U.S. NSF Leadership-Class Computing Facility and the discoveries it will enable July 7, 2026 — A new era of U.S. scientific computing is underway. Horizon, at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas

Gaming company Nazara Technologies has withdrawn the proposed merger of its wholly owned subsidiary, Paper Boat Apps Private Limited, after the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the company's request to withdraw the scheme. In a stock exchange filing on Tuesday, the c

Liz’s view One response to the ultimately irrelevant process by which Folarin Balogun suited up for the US Men’s National Team last night is: FIFA has always been corrupt, might as well make it work for us. That’s how a lot of Americans feel about the economy, even those whose bu

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN FRANCISCO, July 7, 2026 — Scality, a global leader in data infrastructure software for the AI era, and WEKA, the data and memory infrastructure company, today announced an expanded partnership in France, anchored by a new joint customer support agr

Canada-based former cryptomining company Sato Technologies has signed a letter of intent to develop an AI data center in Bhutan. This would see the firm develop a 100MW data center project in the Gelephu Mindfulness City, an approximately 2,600 sq km (10,03 sq miles) planned deve

Meta on Tuesday released Muse Image, a new artificial intelligence model for creating images as the company seeks to attract creators and advertisers to its offerings. Originally codenamed Mango, the AI technology marks the second major release from Meta Superintelligence Labs le

Meta on Tuesday released Muse Image, a new artificial intelligence model for creating images as the company seeks to attract creators and advertisers to its offerings. Originally codenamed Mango, the AI technology marks the second major release from Meta Superintelligence Labs le

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High-performance compute (HPC) and AI infrastructure developer Blockfusion has signed an unnamed AI customer at its New York data center campus. The company, amid a pivot from cryptomining, has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with an unnamed AI customer for up to 300M

England players to be told not to jump hoardings - Published England players will be advised not to jump over advertising hoardings after Jordan Henderson suffered a freak injury in the aftermath of their World Cup victory over Mexico. Brentford midfielder Henderson is expected t

Starting Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans “in the coming weeks.” Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mob

Amazon is heading back to the bond market as spending on the AI buildout piles up. The company plans to borrow $25 billion or more, adding to a flood of AI-related borrowing. Big Tech companies have hit the limits of their cash flows — no small feat, as these are some of the bigg

Honeywell is betting its breakup will generate huge value like GE’s did, but that’s not a guarantee. The empire’s first move since splitting into three pieces came this week when Honeywell’s former chemicals and polymers arm, now called Solstice Advanced Materials, announced a $1

As AI bots take over the internet and displace human eyeballs, one of the biggest web-infrastructure companies has an idea about how to charge them. Cloudflare recently rolled out what is essentially a bot paywall that would allow its customers to charge AI models for scraping it

Investors pursuing AI riches keep chasing the chokepoint. First they backed the models themselves (OpenAI), then the chips and compute (Nvidia, CoreWeave) that power them, then the dirt and steel that house them (data center stocks). The “picks and shovels” approach to investing

South Korea's $880 billion chip and AI plan faces big power and water challenges — a single megacluster requires a quarter of Seoul's total power demand The Yongin megacluster needs roughly a quarter of Seoul's electricity and generates almost none of it locally. South Korean Pre

Netflix is again experimenting with new types of content on its streaming service, as the binge model has grown dated. After expanding its service to include live content, video games, and, more recently, video podcasts, the streamer is now adding video content from publishers su

Italian banking company Intesa Sanpaolo has completed a cloud migration effort to Google Cloud. The company revealed on July 2 that it had completed the cloud migration of its core IT systems to Google Cloud, utilizing Google's cloud regions hosted in TIM data centers in Turin an

Ubiquiti continues to expand into the enterprise wireless market with the introduction of the UniFi E7 and E7-Campus, two flagship WiFi 7 access points designed for high-density, high-performance deployments. Built around a 10-stream tri-band radio architecture, 10GbE connectivit

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models - AI and ML South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon

Artificial Intelligence Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick If you’ve been managing Amazon Quick legacy Topics alongside your datasets, you know the challenge: two assets that must stay perfectly synchroniz

Artificial Intelligence Data modeling best practices for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships Business intelligence analysts routinely face the same challenge at the start of every analytics project: the data needed to answer a single business question lives across mult

Artificial Intelligence Data modeling patterns for Amazon Quick Sight multi-dataset relationships In Part 1 of this series, we introduced Amazon Quick Sight Multi-Dataset Relationships and covered the foundational concepts of dimensional modeling, best practices for designing cle

Artificial Intelligence Multi-dataset Topic best practices for Amazon Quick Chat Note: The topics referenced throughout this document refer to the new Topics experience (not legacy Topics). For details on the differences, see Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with mu

Artificial Intelligence Build a unified semantic layer across datasets with multi-dataset Topics in Amazon Quick Amazon Quick is an AI-powered unified intelligence service that connects structured data and unstructured enterprise content so teams can explore, analyze, and act fro

As more teams move from humanoid robot bring-up to task-specific skill development, the need for repeatable development workflows is growing. Building humanoids remains complex, and today’s development pipelines are still highly fragmented. As a result, developers spend significa

Off the Wire Press Releases SEOUL, South Korea, July 7, 2026 — Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, and MegazoneCloud, South Korea’s leading cloud and AI transformation company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly explore a series of q

Megazone Cloud and Pasqal have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to bring Pasqal's QPU technology to Megazone's cloud platform. The MoU will see Pasqal's full-stack neutral-atom Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) technology, including Quantum Software Development

Industrial machinery generates more alarms than technicians can triage. For each important alarm requiring follow-up, the technician pulls historical context, determines the correct procedure, checks whether a specialist signal confirms the failure mode, and writes up a recommend

Spectrum is one of the most valuable assets in wireless communications. Over the last 30 years, telecom operators in the US have spent more than $240B to acquire wireless spectrum. A goal of a radio access network (RAN) system is to extract the maximum spectral efficiency (bits/s

TensorWave has closed a $350 million Series B round at a $1.55 billion valuation to expand its AMD-based AI cloud infrastructure. The round, announced June 10, was co-led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures, with participation from existing investors Maverick Silicon, Nexus Venture Part

The News As progressives fought on Tuesday to salvage some validation from the wreckage of Graham Platner’s Senate bid, his most important endorser on the left broke a conspicuous silence to try to nudge him out of the race. Sen. Bernie Sanders backed Platner nearly a year ago an

Artificial Intelligence Build a serverless image editing agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness Building an AI agent that edits images based on natural language requires an orchestration loop, tool routing, memory management, and a compute environment to run it all. Amazon B

MOST POPULAR AI - AI and ML AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models - AI and ML South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon

Artificial Intelligence Monitoring discriminative ML models using Amazon SageMaker AI with MLflow The effectiveness and accuracy of machine learning (ML) models decreases almost as soon as the training job finishes. Changes in consumer behavior, releases of new products, upgrades

IBM has expanded its IBM z17 and IBM LinuxONE 5 portfolios with new rack-mount and single-frame configurations, marking the first time rack-mount systems are available across the company’s entire IBM Z and LinuxONE lineup. The additions are designed to provide enterprises with gr

Artificial Intelligence Build an AI-powered AWS support companion with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Managing AWS infrastructure often means switching between consoles, searching documentation, and manually creating support cases. For each incident, an engineer opens the AWS Managemen

To varying degrees, each form of motorsport combines sport, entertainment, and technological development. As Ars has explored, there are valuable lessons that companies can learn from competition, particularly when the pressure is as intense as Formula 1. If you asked me last mon

If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern — it’s front and center, woven into almost every major story of the year. Yes, wars are still raging, the climate keeps worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the next global

Artificial Intelligence How AWS Finance teams reclaimed hundreds of hours with Amazon Quick Every finance professional knows the drill. Monday morning arrives, and your Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team disappears into data compilation. They pull numbers from multiple s