Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
Cloud vendors’ commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.…
Winners include a project for making the Atlantic Forest financially viable and a global ocean treaty initiative.
Tinder is testing an AI-powered “Chemistry” feature that learns about your interests and personality by analyzing your camera roll. In its latest earnings report, the dating app’s parent company, Match Group, described it as an interactive matching feature that’s designed to combat “swipe fatigue” by surfacing fewer, more compatible matches. Chemistry requires the user’s permission […]
The highest number of people on record were referred to the UK's anti-extremism scheme in the year to March - with a 37% rise in right-wing extremism concerns, the latest data shows.
The race to mine battery minerals from the ocean floor would create a new stream of waste that could rob sea life of a critical food source, according to new research published today in the journal Nature Communications. That could have far-reaching effects across the ocean, potentially reaching larger fish like tuna that people depend […]
London mayor Sadiq Khan gives advice to the mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani
London mayor Sadiq Khan gives advice to the mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani
Flight capacity will be cut by up to 10% across the country as air traffic controllers report fatigue, Sean Duffy says.
This was obvious in July 2023. It's obviouser now
Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services
The UK's House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out," declaring that the 2021 National Space Strategy has "failed to turn its ambitions into reality."…
Donald Trump says thousands of Christians are being killed in Nigeria - where has he got the numbers from?
Many plants including cocoa, coffee and avocado cannot be gene-edited but a technique involving grafting could change that, opening the door to more productive and nutritious varieties
The two-child benefit cap: To scrap or not to scrap?
'Pirates' firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have boarded a tanker off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, according to reports.
US soldiers in Germany may not receive their November pay and have been given food bank advice as a government shutdown entered a record 37th day.
The identity of a skeleton buried under a Budapest convent has been confirmed as Béla of Macsó, a Hungarian royal murdered in a 13th-century power struggle, and archaeologists have pieced together how the attack unfolded
Kalmaegi left the Philippines on Thursday morning and is currently moving toward central Vietnam.
With half of the NFL season in the books we look at what we learned from the first nine weeks, who the biggest surprises and disappointments are and how the play-off picture is shaping up
Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship
China has matched the European Space Agency’s feat of taking a snapshot of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from a Mars orbiter.…
The reaction to the Scottish government's wide-ranging new laws show the divided opinions on the issue.
Former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino says he is "missing" the Premier League and would like to return in the future.
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Canon is announcing the EOS R6 Mark III camera, its latest jack-of-all-trades full-frame mirrorless model for both stills and video. The new camera has a 32.5-megapixel sensor, improved autofocus, up to 7K video recording, and a new dual-card arrangement with a faster CFexpress Type B slot. It’s set to launch November 25th and will sell […]
Floods have swept through towns, killing at least 85 people and leaving 75 others missing.
The fate of the remaining five lions at Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary is still unclear, after the park's closure.
A local council said the repairs to the bright blue sculpture would be 'significant'.
The Philippines has declared a state of emergency after a typhoon left at least 114 dead and 127 missing.
Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners
Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.…
President Trump promised to bring down inflation. One year on from his victory, BBC Verify revisits some of his claims.
If you're getting a pattern of milder, recurring headaches here are four things you can do to help manage it.
It is widely accepted that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, but now researchers say our measurements of the mysterious force driving that may be wrong and that the universe began to slow 1.5 billion years ago – but other scientists disagree
The palliative care nurse was convicted of the murder of 10 patients, and the attempted murder of 27 others.
With the finale only hours away, test your knowledge of the highs and lows of the latest series.
The art of making an app by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) tops 10 new terms on the shortlist.
A new study has found certain corals are more resilient in warmer waters, giving hope to the world-famous reef.
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. At 8PM on election night in New York City, I arrived at an unmarked office building in the Meatpacking District. Inside, a few dozen young Kalshi employees moved between […]
English clubs appear to be bossing things in Europe as, for the second time in this season's Champions League, five sides from the Premier League won in a single round of fixtures.
Expensive, noisy and eight years late, but the British Army finally has a new armoured fighting vehicle that troops could deploy to Ukraine in the event of any peace deal.
Aviation analysts say the disaster, which left 12 people dead, may have
been caused by engine failure
Rode has announced a new version of the Rodecaster Video portable production console it launched just over a year ago, but the Rodecaster Video S isn’t a replacement. The Rodecaster Video S offers similar functionality to the original, including switching and mixing multiple video and audio sources and replacing blue or green screens, but with […]
The mistaken release of two prisoners from Wandsworth Prison and Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York lead Thursday's papers.
Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want
Microsoft Australia has apologized to users of its M365 suite after regulators accused it of steering them towards pricey bundles that include its Copilot AI service.…
Prince William has praised environmental innovators as the "world's true action heroes", describing them as the role models we need "in these uncertain times" at his Earthshot awards in Rio.
The highly-complex technology is increasingly being tipped to transform computing.
As an image makeover, I suppose it was instant.
A BBC investigation finds that a host of areas in England are closing waiting lists and others are rationing care.
Phil Foden will have a close eye on Friday's England squad announcement following his fine form for Manchester City this season, including a double against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.
If you logged into your Movies Anywhere account in the past few days, you might have noticed some titles missing from your library, specifically content purchased on Google Play and YouTube. As of October 31st, movies from either platform are no longer available on Movies Anywhere. The change was announced on a brief help page […]
Some clever networking hacks open the door
AI search provider Perplexity's research wing has developed a new set of software optimizations that allows for trillion parameter or large models to run efficiently across older, cheaper hardware using a variety of existing network technologies, including Amazon's proprietary Elastic Fabric Adapter.…
In the 2023 remarks from the King he said AI was "no less important than the discovery of electricity" but warned the risks must be tackled.
It comes just weeks after migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu was also released from prison by mistake.
Don't be led by what appears to be obvious.
The Blues narrowly avoided a historically embarrassing defeat in a 2-2 draw at Qarabag where manager Enzo Maresca's rotation was questioned.
At least 11 people are dead and others wounded after UPS flight 2976 burst into flames and hit buildings during take-off.
Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs
Microsoft has warned of a “thermal event” impacting Azure users in its West Europe region, and perhaps elsewhere.…
Apple recently launched its latest fleet of smartwatches, including the Apple Watch Series 11, the SE 3, and the Ultra 3. Each wearable offers something a little different (their prices indicate their breadth of features). A new generation of watches means we probably won’t see big price drops soon, but we’re officially beginning our watch […]
Two men were released from HMP Wandsworth in error in the past week, with police hunts under way.
If the court rules against Trump's tariffs, it could force the US to refund some of the billions it has collected.
Maccabi Tel Aviv chief executive Jack Angelides calls for a separation between football and politics after away fans were banned from Thursday's Europa League game at Aston Villa.
Police are preparing for a surge in crime if the Labour government's plans to overhaul prison sentences go ahead - with hundreds of thousands more offences expected in a year.
Flaming tar barrels light up the streets of Ottery St Mary on Bonfire Night.
The online shopping giant opened its first physical shop in the world - in a Parisian department store.
Video of the incident, which was live streamed, has been shared widely on the internet.
Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing “deep research” queries. Google’s announcement blog called this “one of our most-requested features” for Gemini Deep Research, which is an agentic feature styled specifically for creating research reports rather than just answering questions. The chatbot starts by creating a multi-step research plan, then it […]
Dan Burn scores a brilliant curling header from a set piece to give Newcastle United an early lead against Athletic Club.
Phil Foden scores a "brilliant" goal to put Manchester City in the lead against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League at the Etihad Stadium.
Teenager Lamine Yamal scores a "sensational" goal in a "moment of pure individual brilliance" for Barcelona against Club Brugge in the Champions League.
The BBC's Ed Thomas confronted Kardos Mateen, who is at the centre of an illegal worker network.
Calling himself "the accountant", the fixer told undercover reporters how he could “confuse” immigration enforcement.
In her latest column, Anita Asante looks at how we react to role models not conforming in women's football and the fallout from Mary Earps' book.
Kyle Bevan, 33, was found dead at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire on Wednesday, prompting a police inquiry.
Elon Musk is already the world's richest man, but today he could take a giant step towards becoming the world's first trillionaire.
Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis goes on trial in Athens accused of instigating football violence and supporting a criminal organisation.
Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent
AI models are filled to the brim with bias, whether that's showing you a certain race of person when you ask for a pic of a criminal or assuming that a woman can't possibly be involved in a particular career when you ask for a firefighter. To deal with these issues, Sony AI has released a new dataset for testing the fairness of computer vision models, one that its makers claim was compiled in a fair and ethical way.…
Dave Scott says he used his car to hit the alleged attacker before police made an arrest.
A free excerpt from my new book, published by Literary Hub.
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
Problems in the prisons and the courts are not new but they are growing and the government doesn't have a grip on them.
Three other Italian climbers have been confirmed dead this week.
If you’ve been holding off on getting a new laptop, now’s a great time to pick one up. Ahead of Black Friday, you can snag the base 13-inch M4-powered MacBook Air for $749.99 ($250 off) in multiple colors at Amazon. That’s the lowest price we’ve seen on Apple’s slim laptop, letting you save more than […]
Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else. Modern trackers can monitor everything from your heart health to how well you’ve recovered from a hard bout of training. Even flagship smartwatches, which used to be lackluster trackers, have become pretty adept workout companions. Whatever your fitness […]
If you’ve ever watched a synth video on YouTube, there’s a decent chance you’ve seen the Arturia KeyStep at some point. The affordable keyboard and controller has been a steady presence since its release in January of 2016, especially in DAWless circles. Now Arturia is finally releasing a proper successor, the KeyStep mk2, and on […]
With the swing of a bat, another October came and went for those of us who love baseball. As languid and habitual as the rest of the season can feel, October baseball at its best is pure chaos: Night after night, there's a promise of something new, that you might see something that's never happened […]
Photographers have been out and about capturing the Beaver Moon as it rose on Wednesday.
Police are hunting for two prisoners mistakenly released in the past week.
For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store
hands on Normally, when you install an application in Windows, it comes either from a direct download or as a single choice from the Microsoft Store. But what if you could install several different apps at the same time by creating a custom group?…
Apple is preparing to power its AI-upgraded Siri with a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The iPhone maker will reportedly pay Google around $1 billion annually to gain access to the technology, which will generate summaries and perform planning-related tasks. As noted by Bloomberg, Apple […]
Last week, Nintendo surprised everybody with an announcement: Over four years after its "last major free content update," Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a Switch 2 upgrade and a free update for all players. It's not often that an incredibly popular game goes years between updates, but since when has anyone been able to […]
A prisoner serving a life sentence for killing his stepdaughter has been found dead in his cell.
Jeremy Vine tells a court he found Joey Barton's posts on X about Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko "vicious".
Using the Helios-1 quantum computer, researchers have used a record-breaking number of error-proof qubits to run the first and biggest quantum simulation of a model for perfect conductivity
The chief executive of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv has denounced "falsehoods" and hatred being spewed about their supporters, leading to them being banned from Aston Villa, while accepting there is work to do to eradicate racism in the fan base.
An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands
Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, used a handheld tablet to command an optionally piloted Black Hawk through multiple autonomous missions. …
Northern Ireland captain and Birmingham City striker Simone Magill announces she is pregnant and will sit out the rest of the season.
The opulent Ritz Hotel, in the heart of Paris, is likely to be a prominent target of the investigation.
Third-party controller makers that have figured out how to wirelessly wake the Switch 2 from its standby mode are generally loud and proud about that feature. That’s because there still aren’t many controllers that can mimic one of the $89.99 Switch 2 Pro’s biggest selling points, which is letting owners turn the console on from […]
Administrator's report shows firm owes £39m to HMRC on top of £148m owed to Department of Health
An offer was made to avert the resident doctors' strike but the union said it did not go far enough.
The legislation is designed to help reduce the concentration of rural land ownership among a small number of people.
Ministers are making changes to the curriculum in England after a review of what is taught in schools.
