Stethoscopes powered by artificial intelligence (AI) could help detect three different heart conditions in seconds, according to researchers.
Kim Jong Un met the families of North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine.
We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming
opinion To fight the enshittification of software, the first step is to pinpoint why and how it happens. Some observers are trying to do that.…
Newcastle United complete the club record signing of Germany striker Nick Woltemade from Stuttgart.
A union chief told the BBC the carefully planned killing had hit prison service morale.
Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan MacLean endured violent tropical storms during their 140-day journey.
Gordon Ramsay has urged his fans to remember to wear sun cream after having treatment to remove skin cancer.
Fuelled by loss, injury and jelly beans, Kirsty Mack tells of how she conquered the world's second-highest peak.
Liam and Cody Townend found the body of their baby girl at funeral director Amie Upton's house.
Emergency services were called to the A830 near Arisaig at about 23:15 on Thursday.
All good things must come to an end
All good things must come to an end, and so too must the blocky glory of the Kilopixel. As the wood and robotic marvel crested the 200,000-pixel mark, its creator pulled the metaphorical plug.…
Tennis star Kamil Majchrzak has responded to footage of a boy having his cap snatched from him in the crowd at the US Open this week.
The decision comes as France leads international efforts to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN meeting next month.
Three brothers have set a new world for rowing across the Pacific Ocean unsupported in the fastest ever time.
An in-depth analysis of Manchester United's tactical approach under Ruben Amorim - and why it isn't working.
The demonstrations - which also focus on cost-of-living and politicians expenses - are seen as a key test for President Prabowo Subianto.
A serial rapist who drugged his victims and hid cameras inside an air freshener has pleaded guilty to 24 sex offences.
West Ham's Jarrod Bowen sits down with Kelly Somers to talk about winning the Conference League and family life.
West Ham captain Jarrod Bowen tells Kelly Somers how he spent this summer training at a boot camp with his dad.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner should face an ethics inquiry over her tax affairs, the Conservatives have said.
The Court of Appeal decision on the Epping migrant hotel and Angela Rayner facing a tax "sleaze inquiry" lead Saturday's papers.
Cameron Norrie is the final British singles player to fall at the US Open as Novak Djokovic battles through injury to reach the fourth round.
Far from home - at the St George's Park home of the Lionesses - female footballers from Afghanistan have been reunited.
Three teenagers have died after the car they were travelling in crashed in the Highlands.
Feelings on the High Street are mixed as unrest continues over a local hotel housing asylum seekers.
The earthen berm is intended to trap people inside el-Fasher, Yale University research shows.
The tariffs can remain in place until mid-October to allow the Trump administration time to request the Supreme Court take up the case.
Live explosives on army training sites in the UK countryside mean many wildfires cannot be tackled.
The rapper took to the witness stand in Los Angeles this week in an assault case which has gone viral.
As school returns, we look at a scheme that pairs teenagers with toddlers from a local nursery in a bid to help increase school attendance.
Public transport users say they're getting fed up of noisy passengers blasting out music and social media videos
The actress says her new film about a sexual assault on a college campus
will provoke debate.
Three men have been arrested in Essex after violence erupted at the latest protest over housing asylum seekers at the Bell Hotel in Epping.
The Centers for Disease Control had several top officials depart recently, leading to calls for the health secretary's resignation.
From dress(es) to secret plans, experts share their predictions for America's wedding of the century.
A slight shift in mood can be detected, but will we know if a meeting happens, asks Daniela Relph.
Two officers were shot dead in a small, rural town, allegedly by a man with links to the "SovCit" movement.
They demolished most of the "blue wall" at the general election, and now the Lib Dems are eyeing up Labour voters.
In the hospital which was supposed to help her, the last moments of 14-year-old Ruth Szymankiewicz's life were recorded on CCTV.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra had to restart its recital on Friday after a lengthy disturbance.
Donald Trump's tariffs are unconstitutional, but they can remain in place for now, the US Court of Appeals has said.
Liverpool to make £130 offer for Alexander Isak, Rasmus Hojlund nears Napoli move, Brentford's Maximilian Beier bid rejected and Oleksandr Zinchenko is on his way out of Arsenal.
The Home Office and owner of The Bell Hotel in Essex win their legal battle at the Court of Appeal.
End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs
The US government already has a lot to say about what products chipmakers can and can't sell in China. This week the Commerce Department moved to make it harder for South Korean memory vendors Samsung and SK Hynix to continue manufacturing in the region.…
Emma Raducanu believes the world's leading stars play her with 'a point to prove' - so what can she do to close the gap?
Ruben Amorim blames his emotions for post-match comments after Manchester United's defeat by Grimsby, which provoked questions about his future.
Locals in Mexico City are unhappy about being priced out of central neighbourhoods.
Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, comes off the bench to help Cremonese defeat Sassuolo 3-2 in his Serie A debut on Friday.
Carlos Alcaraz shows no signs of being affected by a morning start, sailing into the US Open fourth round with a straight-set win over Luciano Darderi.
The admin controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots
A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command.…
Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party
Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation's reliance on Nvidia GPUs. …
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials have been blocked from attending September's annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
As one of the cofounders behind Oculus Story Studio, Edward Saatchi knows how hard it can be to sell people on new tech that bills itself as revolutionary. Even though Story Studio snagged an Emmy for one of its three animated features, a general lack of public interest in VR movies led Meta to shutter […]
Antony is given permission to travel to Real Betis for a medical as he nears a return to the La Liga side.
Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors
Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI's Grok in the federal government, calling the AI unsafe, untested, and ideologically biased.…
Every platform wants to be the place you hang with friends — even Spotify as of this week — so it’s apparently time for TikTok to shore up its direct messaging feature! It told TechCrunch that over the next few weeks, all users should see voice messages and image sharing options arrive in their DMs. […]
The deputy prime minister's spokesperson says she paid the relevant tax when buying her Hove flat.
The schedule of annual updates for Windows 11 that arrive in the second half of the year will hold steady for 2025, and today, Microsoft announced that the 25H2 package is available now for testing in the Release Preview Channel. So, will you see new UI features or more AI tweaks included on your desktop […]
There’s already been a number of leaks of upcoming Philips Hue products that are expected to be announced next week ahead of IFA. But one thing that hasn’t been mentioned was support for Matter-over-Thread. While there’s no confirmation that support is coming, there’s compelling evidence to suggest it might be. First off, packaging for two […]
Ilan Weiss was killed during Hamas's attack in southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
A suspended Labour MSP has denied allegations he placed a secret camera in toilets in the Scottish parliament.
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, and while the prospect of cooler weather and shorter days can be a tough adjustment, at least there is always a great selection of deals to combat the post-summer blues. You’ll have to wait until September 1st to celebrate the actual holiday, sure, but in the meantime, […]
GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers
Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame?…
The overstretched Secret Service is required to provide 6 months of protection to former vice-presidents.
Reform UK's deputy leader has defended a ban on a local newspaper handed down by a council leader in a free speech row.
Ukraine's president says those suggesting a buffer zone do not understand the realities of modern warfare.
But the cure may ruin the web....
With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. Leading the way and growing fast? AI bots.…
Britain's Emma Raducanu is knocked out of the US Open as she suffered a brutal defeat by fellow Grand Slam champion Elena Rybakina in the third round.
An implant that monitors brain activity and provides personalised stimulation halved the discomfort of people living with chronic pain
Fernando Alonso rules out competing with the McLarens for a front-row starting position at the Dutch Grand Prix despite a strong Friday practice.
Christian Brückner is still dangerous, the German prosecutor leading the investigation into the toddler's disappearance tells the BBC.
Look who's visiting the watering hole these days
Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia's APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts and data.…
An investigation is being urged into MP James McMurdock over his "use of social media to apparently facilitate racial abuse" against Sky News political correspondent Mhari Aurora.
Platform's staffer complains security review was 'rushed'
Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk's xAI, bringing early access to the company's Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However, a whistleblower has claimed that the rollout suffers from inadequate security testing and an engineering team operating under duress.…
Police believe Chao Xu's offending was more widespread and appeal for other victims to come forward.
A think tank says a new bank tax could raise £8bn a year, a suggestion that sent bank shares tumbling.
'It blows my mind,' says SecDef
The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft's use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it's demanding Microsoft do more of its own digging to determine whether any sensitive data was compromised. …
On Tuesday, I told you how the modular computer company Framework was finally fulfilling its promise of the "holy grail for gamers" - a laptop with modular, swappable discrete graphics cards so easy to swap, practically anyone can do it at home. The first futureproof gaming laptop, perhaps? Today, I can confirm the system actually […]
Social upheaval across Europe between 1250 and 1860 correlates with volcanic eruptions, reduced sunspot activity and surging food prices
The government avoids having its asylum policy thrown into chaos but the court ruling is a gift for its opponents.
The document suggests the government may still want access despite US officials saying it had dropped the demand.
The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says
Intel's agreement with the US government incudes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have a controlling share in its foundry business.…
Emma Raducanu has crashed out of the US Open after losing in the third round to ex-Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina.
The Appeal Court judge who ruled in favour of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in the Epping migrant hotel case is a long-standing Labour supporter.
A fraudster on the run from Britain will lose his £90m property empire and his Ferrari, a judge has ruled.
British Cycling apologises for the error citing a "autocorrect error" for the fault.
Lawyers for Tesla filed a motion in court Friday to throw out a jury verdict that found the company’s Autopilot software had contributed to the death of a woman in a crash from 2019. Earlier this month, a jury found Tesla partially responsible for the death of 22-year-old Naibel Benavides, who was killed by a […]
I dream of a gadget that can do it all. Instead, when I leave for the office, I pack one or two phones, a portable battery bank, a laptop, a Kindle, a new product I'm testing, and at least one pair of earbuds. In my backpack, there's a pouch full of cords and adapters. On […]
Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED
The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.…
It’s hard to realize that Labor Day weekend — signalling the end of summer — is already here. It would be a bit depressing, except that the weekend also brings with it some really good deal. For example, you can nab a Hisense S7N 55-inch TV at Best Buy and Amazon for $699.99, a solid […]
Psilocybin appears to alter brain networks linked to repetitive negative thoughts, which may explain how the drug helps to treat some mental health conditions
The pair play a wealthy couple once blissfully in love and now find themselves in a marriage breakdown.
A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works
RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.…
Tottenham complete the signing of RB Leipzig and the Netherlands attacker Xavi Simons for £51.8m.
Crystal Palace are trying to sign two central defenders before the transfer window closes, which would allow Marc Guehi to join Liverpool.
The biggest question of all...
When you watch KPop Demon Hunters, it is easy to see why it has become the most popular movie that Netflix has ever released. The animated musical's story about a trio of pop stars tasked with protecting humanity from monsters is familiar, but refreshingly different and infinitely more stylish than other narratives like it. The […]
A former inmate at a Liverpool jail has been found guilty of murdering an ex-prison officer after he exposed an affair between the convict and a female guard.
Survivors saved off Mauritania say they left The Gambia with 160 people on board.
Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson reveals the reasons for cancelling FM25, and what fans can expect from the new game.
