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Tech News: Gemini Starts Making Calls For Customers

Published 30 September 2026

Google is testing a Gemini feature that can telephone businesses, ask questions and arrange bookings on a customer’s behalf, potentially saving people time while requiring businesses to decide how they handle conversations with an AI assistant. What Is Google Testing? The feature, called Call for Me, allows Gemini to handle […]

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Security Stop-Press: Deepfake Calls Target Employees

Published 30 September 2026

Gartner found that 41 per cent of surveyed cybersecurity leaders reported deepfake incidents involving employee audio calls, while 36 per cent reported video-call incidents. Its March–May 2026 survey covered 297 leaders reporting on the previous year, without establishing how many attacks succeeded. Email phishing or business email compromise affected 79 […]

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Tech News : Call-Blocking Firm Receives Massive Fine For Making Nuisance Calls

Published 2 September 2026

A company selling technology designed to stop nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that it had itself made more than 758,000 unlawful marketing calls, many of them to elderly and potentially vulnerable people. What Did Elderly Aids Do? Cardiff-based Elderly Aids Ltd promoted […]

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Tech News : AI To Triage UK Police 101 Calls

Published 25 August 2026

UK police are beginning to use artificial intelligence to decide where non-emergency 101 calls should go before they reach a human operator, with a £1.4 million system designed to cut waiting times, reduce wasted police time and redirect millions of misdirected calls more efficiently. What Is Changing? The new Natural […]

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