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One year on: Rachel Reeves in 2024 (image credit: Fred Duval / Shutterstock). Observers in sectors such as waste, energy and construction responded to Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget, delivered on 26 November. The statement talked much about growth but seemed to offer little to fund it. The main headline-grabber was a £150 cut to the average household’s energy bill, from April 2026, a reduction secured in part by scrapping the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) – a long-standing scheme that obliges energy companies to fund home insulation and heating upgrades for low-income households. There was also some transference of costs from…
2/25/20 3:20 PM · 2 min read This is a tutorial for beginners about using PostgreSQL. I’ll show you how to automatically backup and restore the database. If you are already familiar with PostgreSQL, but you don’t know much about how to use databases in Vapor, you should read my other tutorial about Fluent for beginners.A quick intro to PostgreSQLPostgreSQL is an open source database, it’s available for macOS, Linux and some other operating systems. You can install it by using the de-facto package manager on every platform. 📦# Linux sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib sudo service postgresql start # check…
What have been the latest developments in digital R&D and lab automation, patient-centric design, digitalised manufacturing and supply chains? Highlighting the rise of a smart pharma, AUTOMA+ 2025 took place in Vösendorf, Austria on 24-25 November. The event was a dynamic interplay of technology, solutions and forward-thinking ideas. While all innovations were in a single venue, their influence extends worldwide. The Pharmaceutical Automation and Digitalisation Congress featured tech-savvy solutions for the pharmaceutical sector: AI integration and e-labelling for packaging, digital twins, AI, robotics, IoT in manufacturing, ethical and human-centric AI and more.Supported by Merck, ESTEVE, Octapharma, GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma…
New court filings show that Elon Musk is seeking information from a mystery South Korean entity, as Apple and OpenAI receive a deadline extension. Here are the details. Apple and OpenAI seek more time, as Elon Musk seeks more information A few weeks ago, US District Judge Mark Pittman rejected Apple and OpenAI’s request to dismiss Musk’s lawsuit, basically stating that he wants to see more evidence before deciding one way or another. As a reminder, Musk decided to sue Apple after Grok failed to reach the top of the App Store following an update that brought new features. He…
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PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles, providing limited color palettes, screen resolutions, and memory constraints. The PICO-8 dev environment uses Lua and is focused on being accessible to developers while offering depth for complex projects. Johan Peitz is a games industry veteran and developer extraordinaire, having created dozens of games across many platforms. He’s an expert in PICO-8 development, and joins the podcast to talk about creating games for the console. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs Weight-loss drugs have been back in the news this week. First, we heard that Eli Lilly, the company behind Mounjaro and Zepbound, became the first healthcare company in the world to achieve a trillion-dollar valuation.But we also learned that, disappointingly, GLP-1 drugs don’t seem to help people with Alzheimer’s disease. And that people who stop taking the drugs when they become pregnant can experience potentially dangerous levels of weight gain.…
Withings smart scales are the gold standard. If you can afford one of its latest line – the Body Scan, the Body Comp and the Body Smart – there’s no better option available. I’ve tested a lot of smart scales and these are the models I recommend to friends and family. But the catch is that they’re pricey and don’t often go on sale. That’s why now is a good time to buy. Withings has discounted its best and newest models for Black Friday. If you don’t know which one to go for, have a look at our article on…
What determines the cost of business broadband? The price depends on a variety of factors:
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes learn the wrong lessons, according to an MIT study.Rather than answering a query based on domain knowledge, an LLM could respond by leveraging grammatical patterns it learned during training. This can cause a model to fail unexpectedly when deployed on new tasks.The researchers found that models can mistakenly link certain sentence patterns to specific topics, so an LLM might give a convincing answer by recognizing familiar phrasing instead of understanding the question.Their experiments showed that even the most powerful LLMs can make this mistake.This shortcoming could reduce the reliability of LLMs that perform tasks like…