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The Mark Read era at WPP is winding down with little spectacle. The company announced he’ll exit at year’s end, closing a chapter on a tenure marked by quiet pragmatism and market erosion. Read inherited a bloated, unwieldy machine after Sir Martin Sorrell’s abrupt departure and spent the last seven years trimming it into something …

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With the NBA Finals between the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder in full swing, brands are getting in on the excitement.  Athletes and sporting events have become a major play for consumer brands trying to cut through the noise and stay relevant. Whether it’s through participating in memes, sponsoring athletes, or running promotions and giveaways, brands …

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EDB CEO, Kevin Dallas, takes the stage at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI event. Read More

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. IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028 The news: IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing …

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IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by 2028. It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029.  The proposed machine, named Starling, will consist of a network of modules, each of which contains a set of chips, …

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The Trump administration’s chainsaw approach to federal spending lives on, even as Elon Musk turns on the president. On May 28, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced he’d be gutting a key office at the Department of Defense responsible for testing and evaluating the safety of weapons and AI systems. As part of a string …

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You don’t have to be a diesel-head to have heard about Cummins engines. The Indiana-based diesel truck engine manufacturer has outdone itself in developing some of the strongest and reliable engines in the market. Cummins engines power a wide range of applications, from heavy-duty pickups like the Ram 2500 and 3500 HD, the Nissan Titan …

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Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical functions, and here’s another example to add to the list. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) still relies on Windows 95 and floppy disks for air travel, though hopefully not for too much longer. NPR …

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Image: Gamers Nexus Graphics cards are getting so big that they’re bigger than some computers now. A tired joke, perhaps, but it’s absolutely true. There’s plenty of room inside a modern desktop GPU (at least in terms of pure volume, with the chunky cooler) to fit all the parts you need to run a full …

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Image: Kindle I’m the kind of person who hates to see pen marks and lines on the pages of paper books. It makes my eye twitch, and I’m sure you feel the same if you’re a book lover like me. And that’s why I love the Kindle Scribe, an e-reader that lets you write and …

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