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2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’ thumbnail
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2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’

Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond...

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Dua Lipa and Shania Twain help Glastonbury lift profits and boost charity funding

Glastonbury Festival has reported a rise in profits after a strong year that featured performances from global stars including Dua Lipa and Shania...

UK set to become world’s fifth-largest economy by 2040, but living standards slip thumbnail
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UK set to become world’s fifth-largest economy by 2040, but living standards slip

The UK is on course to overtake Japan and become the world’s fifth-largest economy by the end of the next decade, according to...

Boxing Day sales set to fall by £1bn as cost-of-living pressures bite thumbnail
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Boxing Day sales set to fall by £1bn as cost-of-living pressures bite

Boxing Day sales are expected to deliver a £3.6 billion boost to UK retailers this year, around £1 billion less than in 2024,...

The Museum of Failure is coming to the UK – and Britain’s flops are centre stage thumbnail
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The Museum of Failure is coming to the UK – and Britain’s flops are centre stage

Britain’s long and often spectacular history of mismanaged inventions, doomed projects and ill-fated ideas is finally getting its own cultural institution. Next spring,...

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UK firms scale back Pride support as corporate DEI retreat gathers pace

British businesses are sharply reducing their public support for Pride, mirroring a broader retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that has...

Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groq’s tech and hire its CEO thumbnail
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Nvidia to license AI chip challenger Groq’s tech and hire its CEO

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The year data centers went from backend to center stage

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The European startup market’s data doesn’t match its energy — yet thumbnail
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The European startup market’s data doesn’t match its energy — yet

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How a Spanish virus brought Google to Málaga

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