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Taken at various different events, Elizabeth and Billy Ray looked just like any other smitten couple as they adorably took selfies together.

Alexander Laffer said there needs to be responsible development of AI, as systems are designed to respond to users' moods.

An audit by the Daily Mail has found that at least 188 severely obese youngsters around England are now being prescribed Wegovy by specialist weight-loss clinics.

A red-hot bank holiday weekend typically calls for a trip to the seaside for thousands of families across the country. But some unlucky sunseekers were advised to avoid the beach today.

For more than a decade, the master cat burglar known as the Wimbledon Prowler (pictured) raided the homes of some of Britain's wealthiest residents.

Struggling small biotech firms are pivoting into cryptocurrencies, rebranding as "crypto treasuries" or stockpiling digital assets like Ether and Litecoin as a last-ditch effort to boost share prices amid stalled funding and weak drug pipelines. Bloomberg reports: Shares of 180 Life Sciences Corp., now doing business as ETHZilla, tripled after the Peter Thiel-backed company said it had accumulated Ether tokens worth over $350 million. Less than two weeks later, the stock's gains have been erased. In July, Sonnet BioTherapeutics Holdings soared 243% in one volatile session on plans to transform into a public crypto treasury while MEI Pharma Inc. initially doubled on plans to sell shares to fund a Litecoin treasury. Such about-faces are a tried-and-true formula for small firms when funds are low and shares are under pressure. For drugmakers it can be a sudden shift to chase after trendy new treatment targets, still other companies rebrand with buzzwords like artificial intelligence to juice returns. Now some biotech executives are using digital coins to pump new life into flagging shares. So far in 2025, at least 10 biotechs have announced a pivot into digital assets. The announcements frequently spark frenzied, but short-lived, spikes in shares. "If they're low on ideas, if they can't find relevance in drug development, they're going to try to justify their existence as management in another way," according to Mike Taylor, lead portfolio manager of the Simplify Health Care ETF. "You have a handful of companies trying to reinvent themselves into some other tangent. And, most, if not all won't work out."

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10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape

Comment  We know US President Donald Trump isn't a fan of the US Chips Act. But, turn a government handout into a tit-for-tat transaction and the self described "master dealmaker" is singing a different tune.…

GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency

Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.…

The role originally played in the movies by Rupert Grint in the movies, will now portrayed by 11-year-old Alastair Stout who cut a quirky figure in his costume on set.

For her upcoming The Life of a Showgirl album, Swift employed DEFCON-3 levels of security to prevent leaks. Only five people have been allowed access to the record.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AMD's X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips' extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra headaches. Not long after they were released earlier this year, some early adopters started having problems with their CPUs, ranging from failure to boot to actual physical scorching and burnout -- the problems were particularly common for users of the 9800X3D processor in ASRock motherboards, and one Reddit thread currently records 157 incidents of failure for that CPU model across various ASRock boards. In an interview with the Korean language website Quasar Zone (via Tom's Hardware), AMD executives David McAfee and Travis Kirsch acknowledged the problems and pointed to the most likely culprit: motherboard makers who don't follow AMD's recommended specifications. Some manufacturers have historically shipped their AMD and Intel motherboards with elevated default power settings in the interest of squeezing a bit more performance out of the chips -- but those adjustments can also cause problems in some cases, especially for higher-end CPUs.

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CRAIG HOPE AND LEWIS STEELE: Rio Ngumoha was the hero for Liverpool as he secured a dramatic late win at Newcastle.

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.…

President Donald Trump says he wants to formally change the name of the Department of Defense.

The patient was in Maryland and had recently returned to the US from abroad, officials said. The parasite is potentially fatal and burrows through living flesh.

Apple has filed a lawsuit against former Apple Watch staffer Dr. Chen Shi, alleging that he "conspired to steal Apple's trade secrets relating to Apple Watch and to disclose them to his new employers (Oppo)." The company alleges he downloaded 63 sensitive documents, attended technical meetings, and coordinated with Oppo to transfer proprietary information, though Oppo denies wrongdoing. The Verge reports: Ahead of starting his new job at Oppo, the employee, Dr. Chen Shi, attended "dozens" of meetings with technical members on the Apple Watch team to learn about their work and downloaded 63 documents "from a protected Box folder" that he loaded onto a USB drive, according to the lawsuit. Shi allegedly sent a message to Oppo saying that he was working to "collect as much information as possible" before starting his job. And he searched the internet for terms like "how to wipe out macbook" and "Can somebody see if I've opened a file on a shared drive?" from his Apple-issued MacBook before leaving the company. Shi was formerly a sensor system architect at Apple, and the company says he had "a front row seat to Apple's development of its cutting-edge health sensor technology, including highly confidential roadmaps, design and development documents, and specifications for ECG sensor technology." He now heads up a team working on sensing technology at Oppo -- which Apple says it learned because of "messages he left on his Apple-issued work iPhone." In his resignation letter to Apple, Shi said he was leaving "due to personal and family reasons." Via that iPhone, Apple also says it found messages from Oppo demonstrating that it "encouraged, approved, and agreed to Dr. Shi's plan to collect Apple's proprietary information before leaving Apple."

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Have you been chased by a monster, lost all your teeth or turned up to an event naked only to wake in a panic and realise it was all a dream?

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Justin Bieber seemed to be looking for some love or validation from his fans with his latest social media post. The singer, 31, shared a couple of shirtless photos Monday on social media.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A three-year-old girl walked into a hospital in China with a fruit knife seemingly lodged deep in the side of her head.