Betsy Arakawa searched online for whether Covid can cause dizziness or nosebleeds, police files say.
When the Breakthrough Prize, founded by Facebook, Apple, and Google moguls and sometimes called “the Oscars of Science” by people who want that to be true, invited a comedian to present one of its awards it probably should have expected a few jokes. Remarks made by Seth Rogen during the April 5th livestream about the […]
Inflation falls in the year to March as the price of petrol drops.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 30s was fatally stabbed inside a flat in Liverpool.
The government is facing a backlash for "slipping out" cuts to the amount that families can access for adopted children to have therapy.
The UK accounting regulator says it will look at whether EY met accounting standards.
The camera was lost seven years ago on the island off Cornwall.
The attorney general of Cyprus attorney has appealed against the acquittal of five Israeli men accused of gang raping a British tourist on the island.
Small mobile network providers have outclassed the big four in a survey of more than 4,000 customers - especially when it comes to value for money.
The suspect, 40, is accused of setting fire to the homes of some of his alleged victims to cover his tracks.
£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC
In 2022, the UK's tax collector put £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become "less dependent upon legacy technologies." The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to £5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) more to continue the job.…
Body camera footage of Gene Hackman's home has been released by authorities investigating the deaths of the actor and his wife.
A colossal squid has been filmed in its natural environment for the first time - exactly 100 years after the species was first identified.
4Chan, an online forum notorious for its extreme right-wing content, appears to have been hacked - in a development some believe could spell the end of the controversial messageboard.
Tommy Robinson has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the length of his prison sentence for contempt of court.
Two protesters were tasered and three people arrested when a town hall hosted by hard-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene descended into chaos.
Wildfires 'could spell the end' for rare species such as water voles and hen harriers.
It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?
TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…
The former US president says his successor has "done so much damage and so much destruction" in his first days in office.
Following Luka Modric's investment in Swansea City, the BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks into why more and more footballers are snubbing management.
New Zealand centre Rieko Ioane will join United Rugby Championship and Champions Cup frontrunners Leinster for the 2025-26 season.
A political leaders' debate in Canada is moved to avoid a clash with the Montreal Canadiens' fixture against the Carolina Hurricanes.
The shift comes as Beijing refuses to back down in an escalating trade war with Washington.
Three people died in the "high-intensity shootout" that led to Josh Sullivan's rescue, officials say.
It's LLMs all the way down
Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.…
British officials have confirmed a pilot scheme is being considered to deport migrants who cross the English Channel, in exchange for the UK accepting asylum seekers in France with legitimate claims.
The ex-president uses the speech to criticise the Trump administration's cuts to the welfare agency.
Not to brag, but I’m somewhat of an expert in folding wagons. Huge flex, I know. But I’ve never tested one with a motor like BougeRV’s new Electric Foldable Wagon. I have a little surf shack that sits almost exactly 1km (0.6 miles) from the parking lot, where I regularly carry supplies and sports gear […]
A wet Easter is in store for parts of the UK as a spell of unsettled weather moves across the UK, and heavy rain is possible in places.
It involves a number close to three or six depending on the fiend
Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands government has confirmed.…
The number of people vaping in the UK has stalled, while disposable vape usage has fallen, a study suggests.
"Socially irresponsible" adverts for liquid Brazilian butt lifts have been banned - with a watchdog claiming they trivialised surgery and exploited the uncertainties women may have about their body image.
Researchers say there has been a shift away from disposable vapes ahead of their ban in June, but it may have only a "limited impact" on vaping rates.
Reverend Pippa White is the curate for Fauls, Tilstock, and Whitchurch - and has become a rising star on video-sharing app TikTok.
Fancy a doctorate in semiconductor design? The land of K-Pop wants you to help future-proof its industry
South Korea has decided to dish out over $25 billion in help to industries impacted by the USA’s new tariff regime.…
Johnny Wharmsby entered the house after the explosion, which killed 53-year-old David Howard.
New dad Robby West turns to science in his search for a good night's sleep.
Rhian and Andrea have been friends for 13 years after meeting in the most tragic of circumstances.
Two-time Champions League winner Jose Mourinho discusses the psychology he used to get the best out of striker Samuel Eto'o while the pair were at Inter Milan.
The South Yorkshire care worker says she "suffered in silence" over living and working conditions.
China’s economy actually performed better than expected in the first quarter of the year, but it reflects a moment in time before the explosive trade war with America and before the world’s two biggest economies effectively decoupled.
A range of stories on the front of Wednesday's papers including the latest on bin strikes in Birmingham.
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.
Won't let the Big G require its apps and search to be installed on smartphones
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission yesterday ordered Google to stop doing deals that require manufacturers of Android handsets to include its apps.…
A highly-ranked British tennis player has apologised for saying an opponent "smells really bad" and requesting she put deodorant on.
A climbing pair shatter the record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains.
The country is experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world two years into a bloody civil war.
Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads. These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire. Over the past two days, he talked about them from the witness stand at a federal […]
The chip manufacturing giant, which has been at the heart of the AI boom, will require licences to export its H20 AI chip to China.
So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago
World War Fee The Trump administration's latest salvo in the US-China trade war has forced Nvidia to take a $5.5 billion charge, the GPU goliath revealed in a Tuesday regulatory filing that sent its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.…
The ads used time-limited deals to "irresponsibly pressurise" customers into booking, says the Advertising Standards Authority.
Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?
US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…
Marcus Rashford produces arguably his best display as Aston Villa come close to completing a stunning comeback against Paris St-Germain.
America is trying to create a chip industry through isolation and protectionism, when what allowed it to emerge in Asia is the opposite: collaboration
More than 1,000 miles of roadworks are set to be lifted in England to allow for millions of motorists to have a "smooth" journey over the Easter holidays.
Aston Villa fell short against PSG - but Unai Emery's side showed they now belong in this elite company, writes Phil McNulty.
Skullcandy has made a name for itself in recent years with well-featured budget earbuds that don’t sound awful. Although its new Method 360 ANC earbuds are launching with a “special $99.99 introductory price” (that will eventually go up to $129.99) making them one of the brand’s most expensive offerings, the company has partnered with Bose […]
Mohsen Mahdawi had a feeling his naturalization appointment would go awry. A week before his meeting with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Mahdawi called his friend Chris Helali and told him he was concerned. “He thought it was likely — and I agreed — that he would be arrested, that they would ambush him […]
From injury-hit journeyman to Champions League goal machine - BBC Sport charts the rise of Borussia Dortmund striker Serhou Guirassy.
OpenAI has revealed the “advisors” for its new nonprofit commission: Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Dr. Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver. The company says the four advisors will help “inform OpenAI’s philanthropic efforts,” according to an announcement on Tuesday. Huerta was a prominent labor activist during the 20th century, while Lozano was the president and […]
The White House is looking at trade deals drafted by more than 15 countries, its press secretary has said.
If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the new AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the latest AirPods Pro with USB-C. The same goes for the original AirPods Max, which are nearly indistinguishable from the last-gen […]
The Manchester Arena bomb plotter Hashem Abedi has been moved back to Belmarsh prison after an alleged attack at HMP Frankland on Saturday.
OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier to access your AI-generated images, the company announced today. It’s rolling out to all Free, Plus, and Pro users on mobile and on the web. In a short video, OpenAI shows how it works. From the ChatGPT sidebar, you’ll be able to see […]
The Spanish architect was a devout Catholic and is best known for Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica.
Trump’s tremendous trade tussle triggers troubling twist, theoretically
World war fee Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of thine actions. The Trump administration's global trade war is threatening to hit US military readiness.…
Six men in Bangladesh tell the BBC about how they were forced into detention under the now-deposed government.
British number four Harriet Dart apologises after asking the umpire to tell her opponent to put on deodorant during her first-round loss at the Rouen Open.
The colossal squid is the largest invertebrate on the planet, but it is also surprisingly elusive. An image of a 30-centimetre-long juvenile is our first glimpse of the animal in its natural habitat
Prince William was among heartbroken Aston Villa fans after the club was knocked out of the Champions League by Paris Saint-Germain.
Universities, as well as many charities and religious groups, are exempted from paying federal income taxes.
800K? Make that double, and we'll need a double, too, for the pain
A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.…
Funding is about to run out for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program – a system used by major companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, and AMD to identify and track publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The program helps engineers identify how bad an exploit is and how to prioritize applying patches or other mitigations. […]
Four women have accused the influencer of rape, assault and coercive control, which he denies.
A PDF of Meta’s opening statement slides in its FTC antitrust hearing yesterday contains easy-to-remove redactions that make it possible to see everything the company didn’t want made public, The Verge has discovered. Thanks to the poor redactions, we can see sections comparing the use of Apple’s Messages app to Meta apps like Instagram and […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyone’s friends’ lists. The possibility was discussed on Monday via internal emails shown by the FTC as Zuckerberg testified during Meta’s antitrust trial. Zuckerberg floated the idea of considering “wiping everyone’s graphs” — their friends lists — […]
Blackmagic Design, an Australia-based digital cinematography camera company, was gearing up to start making products in the United States before the Trump administration blew a tariff-shaped hole in its plans. Now, not only is Blackmagic having to increase prices in the US to mitigate some of the levies on imported goods, but those same tariffs […]
Two-time Olympic breaststroke champion Adam Peaty says he is motivated to continue in the sport to the next Olympics by the message it sends to his son.
Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?
Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the EU, along with interactions users have with its chatbot.…
It was in the evening that the bombing started to intensify.
It was in the evening that the bombing started to intensify.
About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.†In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, ​​”while most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is […]
Parents in England, Wales and Scotland are being told which primary school their children will be going to.
Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked
Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by an intruder, with someone on a rival forum claiming to have leaked its source code, moderator identities, and users' IP addresses.…
Anthropic is getting ready to introduce a new “voice mode” feature that could rival OpenAI’s similar option within ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg. The AI voice assistant will reportedly live within its Claude AI chatbot and could start rolling out “as soon as this month.” According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to roll out three English-language voices […]
Choice of home loans requiring small deposits of 5% or 10% reaches levels last seen in the 2008 financial crisis.
Hermès handbags, Birkenstocks, Tide Pods, Lululemon activewear, and mountains of luxury furniture — what if I told you you could cut out the middleman and buy it straight from the source for a fraction of the cost? So goes a genre of viral videos cropping up on social media that claim to show Chinese manufacturers […]
There's a new tariff in town
World War Fee Uncle Sam is kicking off a probe into the national security risks associated with America relying on imported foreign-made semiconductors.…
Google announced Tuesday that it’s going to redirect country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) for Google Search to google.com over the coming months to “streamline people’s experience on Search,” according to a blog post. The change means that if, for example, you used google.ng (for Nigeria) or google.com.br (for Brazil), you’ll see google.com in your […]
Afghan national Fayaz Khan is accused of threatening to kill the Reform UK party leader in a TikTok video.
Police confirm a man has been arrested and bailed following the explosion in John Street, Worksop.
The plan also gives no commitment to end the war in return for hostages, a Palestinian official says.
Ruben Amorim will either recall or drop goalkeeper Andre Onana for Man Utd's Europa League quarter-final second leg against Lyon - and it's a big call for several reasons.
Beijing claims NSA went for gold in offensive cyber, got caught in the act
China's state-run press has taken its turn in trying to highlight alleged foreign cyber offensives, accusing the US National Security Agency of targeting the 2025 Asian Winter Games.…
A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui people that reduced time spent building statues, but not all archaeologists agree
Players looking to harness desert power will have to wait as Dune: Awakening has been delayed. Funcom, developers of the MMORPG based on Frank Herbert’s Dune sci-fi series, announced the news saying the game will be pushed back from its May release date to June 10th. Players who have pre-purchased one of the game’s deluxe […]
When JD Vance puts a positive spin on something… that's a win.
Login green-lit for lone staffer if he’s trained, papered up, won’t pull an Elez
A federal judge has partly lifted an injunction against Elon Musk's Trump-blessed cost-trimming DOGE unit, allowing one staff member to access sensitive US Treasury payment systems. This access includes personally identifiable financial information tied to millions of Americans.…
The person who spat on cyclist Mathieu van der Poel during last month's E3 Saxo Bank Classic is identified and fined by Belgian police.
Life after loss, and views on Trump.
