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Accenture has acquired UK artificial intelligence (AI) firm Faculty, bolstering its AI pool with 400 experts as it expands its services to help businesses deliver value from AI initiatives. Through the acquisition, Faculty’s enterprise decision intelligence product, Frontier, will join Accenture’s suite of products that help organisations make better, faster decisions by connecting data, AI models and business processes into a unified decision system. Accenture said it has been working with Faculty since 2023, supporting its clients in life sciences companies, such as Novartis, to use Frontier to transform the economics of clinical trial planning and execution. Julie Sweet,…
Lenovo has unveiled a bunch of new laptops and concepts at CES 2026, including its latest ThinkPad X1 models. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition and ThinkPad X1 2-in-1 Gen 11 Aura Edition come with a new design the company has dubbed “Space Frame.”Lenovo calls Space Frame an “engineering breakthrough” and describes it as a design that restructures the interior of a laptop, so that components are placed on both sides of the motherboard. This structure improves the computer’s cooling and, hence, enables higher sustained performance. It comes with replaceable USB ports, battery, keyboard speakers and fans for…
Shiona McCallum,Senior technology reporter, CES in Las Vegas,Liv McMahonandEmma Calder,Technology reportersAFP via Getty ImagesLego has unveiled Smart Bricks – tech-filled versions of its small building blocks – which it says will bring sets to life with sound, light and reaction to movement.However, the new product range has got a mixed reaction from play experts, who say it risks undermining what makes Lego distinct for children in an increasingly digital world.Announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 in Las Vegas, the Danish toymaker’s Smart Play system introduces new electronic components to the classic plastic blocks.Lego says its new tech-enabled products,…
The new Man Utd boss will have the “final decision” on Joshua Zirkzee’s future as Fabrizio Romano reveals Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is currently the “leading candidate”. The Red Devils decided to sack Ruben Amorim on Monday with the Portuguese head coach’s time at Old Trafford proving unsuccessful. Man Utd are now looking to bring in a new interim boss to take over until the end of the season with Darren Fletcher leading the team over the next game or two. The Red Devils will then make a decision over Amorim’s permanent successor in the summer as they look to avoid…
Is the Cupra Formentor reliable?The Formentor doesn’t have a great reputation for reliability. In What Car?’s most recent reliability survey it finished in 25th place out of 33 cars with a score of 89.8% in the family SUV section, which is better than the Range Rover Evoque, but worse than the Audi Q3, Volvo XC40 and Jaguar E-Pace.Cupra as a brand redeemed itself in our 2024 survey, finishing in 17th place out of 31 manufacturers – that’s an improvement on 2023, where it finished in last place. It should be noted that we had an issue with a 2024 plug-in hybrid…
If you saw Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 launch last year and thought, “I’ll wait for the SteamOS version,” well, you’ll have to wait a little longer. But at least now it’s official. At CES 2026, the company revealed the Legion Go 2, Powered by SteamOS. The Valve-friendly variant of the gaming handheld arrives in June, starting at a pricey $1,199.There aren’t any surprises here. It’s the same Lenovo Legion Go 2 hardware, with SteamOS replacing the sometimes-awkward Windows. In many ways, you could view the SteamOS Legion Go 2 as a more powerful and versatile (and expensive!) Steam Deck. One…
Laura BickerChina correspondent, BeijingMiraflores Palace via ReutersVenezuelan president Nicolás Maduro (L) and Chinese president Xi Jinping have enjoyed an amicable relationship in recent years – pictured here during a state visit to Beijing in 2023It took just a few hours for Donald Trump to upend a relationship that China had been cultivating for decades. Only hours before he was seized in a nighttime raid, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro had been praising his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as “an older brother” with a “powerful message as a leader to the world” during a meeting with senior diplomats from Beijing.China has invested…
Shelley Phelps,Wales Westminster correspondentandAlexandra Banfi,BBC WalesEllie JamesOwain James, seen here with daughter Amelia and wife Ellie, died from a brain tumour in 2024A woman whose husband died from a brain tumour aged 34 says she can’t “go back to life” as normal until she helps change the treatment options for patients.Ellie James, 36, has been campaigning for all hospitals to freeze brain tumour tissue removed during surgery for use in vaccines or research, with the issue set to be debated by MPs in Parliament on Wednesday.James said husband Owain had wanted his experience to “change things for the better for…
Arne Slot was gesticulating. Arne Slot was pointing. Arne Slot was shouting. No one was listening. Or even looking. They were comfort habits rather than constructive in-game management SW6 has not been kind to Slot; comfy Craven Cottage is where his 26-match unbeaten streak finished last season, when Liverpool began to lose their discipline on the highway to the title. The Dutchman lived and breathed every moment of his impressive debut season. The football was more contained, but Liverpool were probably the best team in the world until December 2024. After a 2-0 win over Brentford, Jamie Carragher said: “That…
It’s 5pm on a weekday in Guildford, Surrey. For an hour, members of Surrey Police’s Vanguard Road Safety team have been stopping motorists to warn them about the dangers of driving under the influence of drink and drugs, when they strike ‘lucky’ and nab a drug-driver. Clues? His car reeks of cannabis and there’s a box of the stuff on his dashboard. The driver’s saliva is found to contain illegal levels of THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis, set at two micrograms per litre of blood. In light users, THC can remain in the blood for up to seven hours,…