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Data centres: The new tech stopping chips from overheating
Posted onChris BaraniukTechnology Reporter The Washington Post via Getty Images Data centres can’t function without cooling systems They work 24/7 at high speeds and get searingly hot – but data centre computer chips get plenty of pampering. Some of them basically live at the spa. “We’ll have fluid that comes up and [then] shower down, or…
Pubs to get support package after business rates backlash
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Rising US prices could widen divide between haves and have-nots
Posted onDanielle KayeBusiness reporter Danielle Kaye/BBC Yanique Clarke says “prices are really drastically high” for meat, vegetables and fruit There’s a divide in the US economy between the haves and the have-nots. And accelerating inflation, driven in part by tariffs, could make it worse. Government data points to the early stages of businesses passing on the…
