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Welsh dance duo Overmono have had about as good a year as an underground rave act could hope for. There were sold-out headline shows, a debut album in the charts, a busy festival season playing peak slots, and to top it all off, three shows over the new year period. So where can you catch one of the hottest tickets in the UK dance-music market right now? Australia.It’s not just Overmono. Many big artists are gigging abroad this new year. It used to be that every UK club would have an end-of-year party. DJs would play two…

An artificial intelligence system can't be registered as the inventor of a patent, Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a decision that denies machines the same status as humans. The U.K.'s highest court concluded that "an inventor must be a person" to apply for patents under the current law. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking &…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research from the University of Nottingham has found that national education policies can make special schools feel like a 'bookend." Dr. Lauran Doak, in the School of Education, spoke to headteachers across five schools specializing in the education of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Her…

Business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce startup Udaan on Thursday said it has raised $340 million in a funding round led by UK savings and investment firm M&G Prudential. The round also saw participation from existing investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and DST Global, the firm said in a statement. ET had first reported on talks between the UK-based firm and Udaan on October 20. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data…

The latest instalment of Alice Oseman’s LGBTQ+ young adult Heartstopper series has become the UK’s fastest-selling graphic novel ever.Heartstopper Volume 5 sold 60,012 copies in the first three days since its release on 7 December. This made it the overall best-selling book of the week in the UK across all categories including adult and children’s fiction and non-fiction.Heartstopper Volume 5 by Alice Oseman. Photograph: HachetteThe Heartstopper series follows the love story of two fictional British schoolboys, Nick…

The UK is considering an investigation into Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI to decide if it has resulted in an "acquisition of control" that's subject to antitrust law, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) wrote today. The regulator said it's considering "recent developments," no doubt referring to the Sam Altman CEO ouster drama in which Microsoft played a large role.  "The CMA is now issuing an ITC to determine whether the Microsoft/OpenAI partnership, including recent developments, has resulted in a relevant…

Google is accusing Microsoft of indulging in unfair business practices to stifle competition in the cloud services space, and that Microsoft's Azure has been positioned in a way that makes it almost impossible for business owners to look for economically reasonable alternatives to it…

Most Americans have spent November watching Black Friday ads. But on the other side of the pond, most of their British cousins have been watching Christmas ads (a.k.a., “adverts”). Yes, Black Friday sales have become common in the U.K. over the past decade, but Brits don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. So, right after Halloween, most digital marketers in Old Blighty launch their Christmas ad campaigns.If digital marketers in the U.S. want a sneak preview of creative effectiveness in December, then they should find a…

An executive at one of generative AI’s leading companies has quit over the startup’s controversial use of copyrighted content. Ed Newton-Rex had been VP of audio at Stability AI, which produces the popular image-generator Stability Diffusion, but resigned due to the firm’s treatment of creators. “I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’,” Newton-Rex…

Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: November 14, 2023, 13:31 ISTUltraFan technology. (Photo: Rolls Royce)The company says the UltraFan’s scalable technology from 25,000-110,000lb thrust also provides dedicated power to the widebody and narrow body aircraft in future.The Rolls-Royce on Wednesday successfully demonstrated UltraFan’s technology, which offers maximum power to aero-engines. The company has run the technology at its facility in the UK’s Derby. It has been shared by the officials that the initial test stage…