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Can you beat the odds and find the black foam headphone cover camouflaged in a black rug?

The son of Jeff Brazier and the late Jade announced he was set to become a father with his ex-girlfriend back in August.

Finally scientists have discovered that there is a fruiter reason for the placement of Easter Island famous statues than any of us might have considered.

Justin Lewis takes us on a wild ride through the music of the 1980s in his raucous new book, Into The Groove.

Toyota sold just 61 BZ models in September, reports Electrek. "Including the Lexus RZ, which managed 86 sales, Toyota sold just 147 all-electric vehicles in the US last month, over 90% less than the 1,847 it sold in September 2024." Toyota's total sales were up 14% with over 185,700 vehicles sold, meaning EVs accounted for less than 0.1%... So, why is Toyota struggling to sell EVs when the market is booming? For one, Toyota recalled over 95,000 electric vehicles last month, including the bZ4X, Lexus RZ, and Subaru Solterra, all of which are built on the same platform. The recall was due to a faulty defroster, but Toyota instructed its dealers to halt sales of the bZ4X, Lexus RZ, and Subaru Solterra. Toyota hopes to turn things around with a new and improved lineup. The 2026 Toyota BZ (formerly the bZ4X) is arriving at US dealerships, promising to fix some of the biggest complaints with the outgoing electric SUV. Powered by a larger 74.7 kWh battery, the 2026 Toyota BZ offers up to 314 miles of driving range, a 25% improvement from the 2025 bZ4X... Toyota's new electric SUV also features a built-in NACS charge port, allowing for recharging at Tesla Superchargers. It also features a new thermal management system and battery preconditioning, which improves charge times from 10% to 80% in about 30 minutes... It's not just the US that Toyota's EV sales crashed last month, either. In its home market of Japan, Toyota (including Lexus) sold just 18 EVs in September. The Japanese auto giant is betting on new models to drive growth.

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Liam's world-famous boy band One Direction was initially grouped together on The X Factor UK, where Nicole was serving as a celebrity judge.

After being spotted in her Manchester constituency last weekend, Angela Rayner swerved the Labour Party conference in Liverpool and headed straight for the south coast.

The new Trumpian unit is the most eye-catching measure in Kemi Badenoch's Borders Plan, which the Tory leader hopes will revive her flagging political fortunes.

Authorities were on patrol in the Windy City's South Side near 39th and Kedzie on Saturday when officials said they were 'rammed by ten cars'.

The Serbian-American businessman owned Portsmouth, Leicester and Sheffield Wednesday in his titanic career and has been survived by his two daughters and three grandchildren.

Katharine Birbalsingh, known as Britain's strictest headteacher, lashed out at Bridget Phillipson for imposing her will on schools without any experience on the ground.

Karen Carney revealed she has suffered from a spinal condition since childhood, and has shared how it affects her ability to perform on the Strictly Come Dancing dancefloor. 

"Microsoft buys a lot of GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD," writes the Register. "But moving forward, Redmond's leaders want to shift the majority of its AI workloads from GPUs to its own homegrown accelerators..." Driving the transition is a focus on performance per dollar, which for a hyperscale cloud provider is arguably the only metric that really matters. Speaking during a fireside chat moderated by CNBC on Wednesday, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott said that up to this point, Nvidia has offered the best price-performance, but he's willing to entertain anything in order to meet demand. Going forward, Scott suggested Microsoft hopes to use its homegrown chips for the majority of its datacenter workloads. When asked, "Is the longer term idea to have mainly Microsoft silicon in the data center?" Scott responded, "Yeah, absolutely... Microsoft is reportedly in the process of bringing a second-generation Maia accelerator to market next year that will no doubt offer more competitive compute, memory, and interconnect performance... It should be noted that AI accelerators aren't the only custom chips Microsoft has been working on. Redmond also has its own CPU called Cobalt and a whole host of platform security silicon designed to accelerate cryptography and safeguard key exchanges across its vast datacenter domains.

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Two teenage girls were killed in a subway accident in NYC. Around 3.10am Saturday, officials were called to a Brooklyn subway station where they found the girls unconscious.

They were once regarded as two of the 'nicest' Aussie guys in showbusiness.

The Tory leader was greeted by a crowd of activists outside the Midland Hotel on Saturday afternoon - and insists her Party are the only one with a 'credible plan' on the economy and immigration.

On the back of film fame, the Golden Spurtle porridge-making championships, returned to the village of Carrbridge for its 32nd year with a record number of entries from around the globe.

The attack was in Shostka, a city northeast of Kyiv , where a 71-year-old man was found dead in one of the wrecked carriages.

The incident occurred as the motorboat, described locally as a tourist boat, was leaving the marina in Fuengirola.

The Greater Manchester Police force has 12,677 employees. But they've now suspended work-from-home privileges, reports the BBC, "following an investigation into so-called 'key-jamming', which can allow people to falsely appear to be working. "Twenty-six police officers, staff and contractors are facing misconduct proceedings following the probe, the force said." One constable told a hearing that a police detective working from home had made it look like his computer was in use on 38 different occasions over 12 days, according to an earlier BBC article. The evidence "showed lengthy periods where the only activity is single keystrokes, pressing the 'H' key about 30 times, between 10:28 and 11:56 GMT on 3 December, and then the 'I' key more than 16,000 times." The detective "used key jamming for 45 hours out of a total of 85 he was logged in for and was frequently away from the keyboard for half of his working day." The constable said the detective's motivation was "laziness" — and the detective has already resigned. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the article.

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