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Fran said the cat - who was identified through having a microchip - is exactly how they remembered him, and was happy to share space with the family's other feline, Freddy.

Energy efficiency was being built into "all aspects of AI" microchips, models, and data centres, but it was important to "modernise the grid" to balance off periods of excess capacity, she said.

"But the bad thing is that the number of Russian parts has increased which means Russia is producing things they couldn't do before, including microchips."

Unlike modern debit or credit cards, EBT cards traditionally have not had microchips, making them especially easy to clone.

Sometimes referred to as microchips or integrated circuits, they are made from tiny fragments of raw materials, such as silicon.