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Chris Vallance & Tom Gerken BBC News Getty Images Technicolor, the visual effects (VFX) group which has worked on films ranging from Disney’s 1940 classic Pinocchio to 2024 blockbuster Mufasa The Lion King, has collapsed into administration in the UK. The group owned several leading visual effects studios including MPC, Mikros Animation and The Mill, […]
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Liv McMahon Technology reporter Reuters Apple has made headlines by pulling its most advanced data security tool for UK customers. It is removing Advanced Data Protection (ADP) after the Home Office asked for the right to be able to access data which it is applied to – something even Apple itself cannot currently do. Rather
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Tom Gerken Technology reporter Amazon Amazon told the BBC Alexa+ will be available on the “overwhelming majority” of its Echo devices Amazon has unveiled Alexa+, an overhauled version of its virtual assistant with which it hopes users will share “just about anything”. Rapid recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have caused huge growth in software
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Padraig Belton Technology Reporter Mater The Mater hospital in Dublin – home to Ireland’s busiest emergency department For a country famous as Big Tech’s European address, Ireland’s hospitals often lag far behind in technology. They lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between clinics. In July 2024, a
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Amazon The Ocelot chip uses so-called “cat qubits” Amazon has become the third tech giant in as many months to announce a breakthrough in quantum computing – a technology that promises vast processing power but is beset by technical difficulties. The firm has unveiled Ocelot a prototype chip built on “cat qubit” technology – an
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Tom Espiner Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Shares in electric car maker Tesla have slumped more than 9% after EU and UK sales fell by almost half in January. The drop in Tesla shares took the company’s valuation back below $1trn for the first time since November 2024. Tesla has been facing stiff competition
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Pedro Garcia Technology Reporter, Lisbon Duarte Dias Lisbon, Dublin and Seattle – like many Duarte Dias has moved to move up In 2020, Duarte Dias, a Portuguese software engineer, accepted a job offer to work in Microsoft’s Dublin subsidiary. A little over a year later, he joined a team at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle, where
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Faarea Masud BBC Business reporter Getty Images Cryptocurrency firm Bybit said hackers stole $1.5bn (£1.1bn) worth of digital currency in what could be the biggest crypto theft in history. The Dubai-based company’s founder told users that their funds were “safe” and that if would refund any of those affected. It said hackers stole from its
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Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Deepali Misra-Sharp Dr Deepali Misra-Sharp uses AI to help take notes This is the fifth feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical research and treatments. The difficulty of getting an appointment with a GP is a familiar gripe in the UK. Even when an
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Joe Fay Technology Reporter Daniel Stenberg Daniel Stenberg first released his open source software in 1996 Many of us have prepared instructions and critical information for our family in the event of our sudden demise. For Daniel Stenberg, that includes passwords for his Google and GitHub accounts. That’s because he’s the founder of curl, an
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