Fireworks provide a few minutes of joy, but the economic and environmental costs last much longer

Within a few minutes, it’s all over. But the price on the box doesn’t reflect the hidden costs. The smoke inhaled by neighbours, the animals disturbed or the public services called out when things go wrong. It’s not a…

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Become a TechRadar Insider for a chance to win a RIG R8 PRO and Miami-inspired Mod-Set

As we noted in our RIG R8 Pro review , it's a well-built, great value $179.99 wireless gaming headset with "tight, distortion-free sound", a replaceable 60-hour battery, and dual wireless connectivity. The headset also…

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India’s EloElo raises $80M from NBCUniversal and Hornbill for Story TV

The round values EloElo at $500 million, Ivan Mehta reported for TechCrunch . It takes the company’s total funding to $130 million. “Story TV shows us what India wants to watch, and Dolphin AI gives us the economics to…

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UK to deploy facial recognition in biggest-ever immigration crackdown

Policy documents show the government has been developing a programme to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) cameras for "general immigration enforcement", including non-criminal immigration offences. The technology will…

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French blood service hit by cyber attack threatening to turn stocks into “black pudding”

Millions of euros of damage has been done to food stores across Benelux and the Nordics, as well as France. The attack on Coolworld systems is the first known case affecting healthcare. Coolworld, a specialist supplier…

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Emirates SkyCargo launches AI Tech to fly server racks, chips and GPUs

It is built for capital equipment and other critical hardware as well as server racks. The service adds priority loading and scheduling, specialised handling and shipment monitoring from the airline’s command centre in…

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Bitcoin briefly hits multi-week low as Democrats win Congress

The result could complicate the crypto industry’s push for faster deregulation, Reuters reported . The market recovered some of its losses shortly afterwards. Bitcoin was trading roughly flat at $78,070 by 07:15 GMT…

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Currys expands its Black Friday sale with dozens of new offers — I've picked the 21 best deals from Ninja, Samsung, Shark, Acer, Dyson, Sony, and more

It's the first-ever price cut on the brand-new laptop that we scored an exceptional 4.5 stars in our review . This small and powerful modern laptop is an excellent all-rounder, boasting an Intel Core 5 CPU, 512GB of…

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Honor is reportedly testing a phone with a record 15,000mAh battery

But mainstream handsets still tend to be under 6,000mAh, and very few phones breach 10,000mAh. That could soon change though, as Honor is reportedly testing a phone battery of between 14,000mAh and 15,000mAh — with the…

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These Google Maps features help you spend less on gas

While changing how often I drive or buying a more fuel-efficient car could help, I wanted to find ways to spend less without making those kinds of compromises. Add Android Police on Google Add as Preferred Source I don't…

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