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With 200 million tonnes of waste produced each year by the UK, digital waste management is set to revolutionize the sector, collecting and collating waste tracking data in one central location. The government plans to introduce mandatory digital waste tracking across the UK in 2024, which can help businesses analyze and accurately implement the right strategies to achieve their green goals.

Currently, waste tracking data is a mix of digital and paper-based, held mainly by private IT contractors with few centralized systems. As a result, it’s difficult to determine what happens to our waste and whether it’s been recycled, recovered or sent to landfill. The new system should therefore bring a new era of efficiency, accuracy and sustainability.

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Sports and technology have long been intertwined, but the advent of next-generation technology is taking this relationship to new heights. Cutting-edge technologies like augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), and remote collaboration are unlocking unprecedented opportunities for teams, players, and fans alike. These innovative solutions are changing the face of sports, giving teams a competitive advantage on the field while taking the fan experience to the next level.

As a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies gain importance in sports, it’s worth looking at how they are helping to improve and evolve our favorite games and what we can expect in the future.

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As students at schools and colleges in the UK begin to return after the summer break, new research shows that 96 percent of the top 50 state secondary schools, 92 percent of the top 50 sixth-form colleges and 80 percent of the top 50 universities in the UK are lagging behind on basic cybersecurity measures, leaving students, staff and partners at risk of email-based impersonation attacks.

The research from cybersecurity company Proofpoint is based on an analysis of DMARC adoption and reveals that 70 percent of UK schools are currently taking no steps to protect themselves from domain impersonation by having no published DMARC record.

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Five-hundred-and-fifty-eight in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days.

Microsoft is testing several Windows Copilot plugins currently that promise to change the upcoming feature from a simple tool that integrates Bing Chat in Windows into something that administrators might find useful. Notepad and the Windows Snipping are also getting improvements soon.

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The rivalry between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is hard to miss. There was, for a while, talk of the two men having a cage fight -- although that predictably came to nothing -- and  Zuckerberg's Meta recently introduced its "Twitter killer" app, Threads, after perceiving weakness in Musk's own social media platform (now called X).

While Threads hasn't been quite the huge hit that Meta was hoping for (just yet at least), it has clearly had some impact on X. You should never bet against Elon Musk though. If you've ever wondered what Meta's Instagram might look like if Musk took over that as part of X's expansion of the "everything app", we have the answer.

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Zepp Health Corporation has just tossed a new player into the smartwatch arena: the Amazfit Balance. It runs on the new Zepp OS 3.0, which boasts a range of apps focused on wellness and productivity.

This isn't just an upgrade from the company’s previous GTR and GTS models. Nope, it is going for something a bit more holistic here, targeting your overall well-being, both mentally and physically.

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Notepad is one of the longest standing Windows apps, having been around for decades. Over the years, there have been slow, gradual improvements and now Microsoft has delivered a much-needed update to the beloved text editor.

Bringing the app more in line with word processors like Microsoft Word, this latest update sees the arrival of automatic file saves and more.

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As developers look for ways to improve productivity they're moving away from 'no-code' offerings and have their sights set on serverless platforms to help bolster their 'low-code' solutions.

Serverless platforms take tasks like managing application resilience, performance, security and compliance away from developers, allowing them to focus on functionality and innovation. We spoke to Briana Frank, VP of product at IBM Cloud to find out more about how serverless will unlock the next era of low-code.

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Kicking off the v0.73 release cycle, which is "focused on new features, stability and improvements", Microsoft has released PowerToys v0.73.0, complete with a new module -- Crop And Lock.

The latest addition to the PowerToys family is described as making it possible to "crop a current application into a smaller window or just create a thumbnail. Focus the target window and press the shortcut to start cropping". This update also includes a number of bug fixes and a range of new features for existing modules.

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Microsoft has released an updated version of its screen capture and screen recording utility, Snipping Tool. As well as bug fixes there are improvements and additions to the Windows 11 tool.

The latest version of the app introduces a number of key changes including the arrival of the combined capture bar, something Microsoft says simplifies switching between screen grabbing and screen recording. There are also changes to audio recording options.

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If you're a Nintendo aficionado like me, then you're probably already buzzing from Nintendo's recent Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct video. The presentation gave us a deep dive into the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which hits stores on October 20. The game promises to rejuvenate the 2D Mario experience like never before. And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Nintendo also dropped a major bombshell — a new Mario-themed Nintendo Switch OLED Model is joining the fray!

Before we dive into the new Switch model, let's take a moment to marvel at the game that's causing all this excitement. Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first 2D side-scrolling Mario game in over a decade, folks! With new gameplay elements, power-ups, and something called "Wonder Flowers" that bring unexpected transformations to the table, this game is slated to redefine Mario as we know it. A new Flower Kingdom awaits exploration, and a roster of playable characters ensures that the fun will be varied and endless.

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It is usually the case that when a web browser, or any other app for that matter, gets an interesting new feature, the company behind said app shouts about it. Usually, but not always.

A newly discovered option in Microsoft Edge is a good example. Microsoft has made no announcement about it, but has snuck a handy new "Copy video frame" option into the browser that makes it possible to grab a still from a video.

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A lot of people rely on Windows Defender to protect their systems, it's free and installed by default so why not?

Defender uses a blacklisting approach to stop threats. Before allowing a file to execute, it will compare it against its database of known threats and stop it from executing if it's on there. However, researchers at SafeBreach have uncovered an exploit that can allow threats to be removed from the database.

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Today, addlink Technology Co., Ltd. launches its latest solid state drive. Dubbed “AddGame A93,” this SSD doesn’t have DRAM (in an effort to reduce costs), but it still offers very impressive performance. The drive sports read speeds of up to 7,400MB/s and write speeds up to 6,500MB/s, thanks to its PCIe Gen 4 NVMe interface.

For the Sony PlayStation 5 gamers out there, this SSD could be a dream come true. Not only does it meet the PS5's demanding requirements, but it also fits like a glove in the console's internal expansion bay.

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Mega tech trends like the cloud, the mobile phone era, metaverse and now AI all depend on enabling technologies sitting right beneath the surface hidden from nearly everyone’s view. Their structural integrity depends on the flawless operation of those enabling technologies, which in many cases are Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). As such, their success depends on API adoption. Nowhere is this truer than in the rapid proliferation of AI technologies, like generative AI, which require a simple and very easy-to-use interface that gives everyone access to the technology. The secret here is that these AI tools are just thin UIs on top of APIs that connect into the highly complex and intensive work of a large language model (LLM).

It’s important to remember that AI models don’t think for themselves, they only appear to be so that we can interact with them in a familiar way. APIs are essentially acting as translators for AI platforms as they’re relatively straightforward, highly structured and standardized on a technological level. What most people think of as "AI" should be viewed through the lens of an API product; and with that mindset, organizations can best prepare for what potential use cases are possible and how to ensure their workforces have the skills to put them into action.

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