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Alexi Lalas and Landon Donovan are continuing to wreak havoc on the Fox Sports World Cup set, leading to an increasing number of fans believing that all is not well behind the scenes.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday. Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space venture Blue Origin and his new AI startup Prometheus, which is aimed at speeding up physical manufacturing. "I know there's a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on," Bezos said. "I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage." Half of Americans fear the rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found this month. Bezos, the world's fourth-richest person with a net worth around $250 billion, argued that people have "endless" things to do, and are currently limited by barriers that he said AI would lower. One goal of space exploration is to move polluting industries off Earth, said Bezos, whose Blue Origin aims to compete with trillionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX in rockets. "If space travel gets reliable enough and inexpensive enough, and we can get materials from asteroids and near-Earth objects and the moon, then this garden planet can be returned to its pre-Industrial Revolution state," Bezos said.

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The story came to light on Tuesday night after Messi cried on the pitch in Kansas City, immediately after scoring his first ever World Cup hat-trick to ensure a 3-0 win over Algeria.

The investigation found the Titan's carbon fibre hull became weaker over time, with damage building up after each deep-sea dive.

With Sir Keir Starmer in Evian, enjoying a likely last few days of prestige, writes QUENTIN LETTS, we were down to the scrapings for PMQs.

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Crews from Essex County Fire and Rescue helped extinguish a massive blaze at a scrapyard in Erith. Smoke visible from Essex and Kent.

Crews from Essex County Fire and Rescue helped extinguish a massive blaze at a scrapyard in Erith. Smoke visible from Essex and Kent.

British boxer Colin Cairney has died in hospital following an accident in Thailand. Medics found him at 4.10am unconscious and bleeding in the road.

The decision to demolish comes after a heartbroken relative of Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas demanded action in a text to a local politician who has campaigned for years for more regulation.

The two 'thugs in uniform' can today be named for the first time as Joseph Fernandes, 38, and Umar Siddiq, 25, both of whom have now been sacked by Harrow council over their aggressive conduct.

Lance Twiggs, the transgender lover of Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin have been give limited immunity ahead of the trial, a new court filing has revealed.

AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet

Olivia Wilde has finally broken her silence on romance with Harry Styles as she admitted 'it really upset people'.

Milan prosecutors said Italian police had seized 'significant' evidence during a search of the home of one of four people under investigation for murder over alleged 'weekend sniper' trips.

Epic Games has released Lore, an MIT-licensed version control system written in Rust and designed specifically for "games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes," reports Phoronix. From the report: While there is Git LFS for large file storage with Git, Epic Games has crated Lore as a version control system designed entirely around the large file needs of modern game development as well as multimedia/entertainment purposes. Lore is designed to be fast and efficient for large files including binary files, and be easy-to-use including for 3D artists and more. The Lore documentation elaborates more on its differences and motivation for development compared to Git: "No existing system was designed for the combination of constraints that large game and entertainment projects require: arbitrary content types, multi-axis scale, multi-tenant safety, and a fully open specification and license. [...] Lore is designed to combine what works in each (Git's content-addressed revision graph and centralized systems): a centralized server-of-record for durability, access control, and conflict resolution; content-addressed storage with fragment-level deduplication that is as effective on a multi-gigabyte binary as on a kilobyte of text; sparse, lazy working copies that materialize only what you need; free branching; and a fully open, publicly versioned specification and MIT license. Normal editing operations -- staging, committing, branching, diffing -- never require a network round trip." You can learn more at Lore.org. All the code is available on GitHub.

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The plans would see all councils in Essex replaced with five, all-purpose, ‘unitary’ authorities

Ashley Cain has been revealed to have a shocking history of calling women 's**gs', 's**ts' and 'psychos', a new investigation has revealed. 

Keir Starmer praised Andy Burnham as a 'fantastic asset' and said he wanted him to have a 'big role' in Government if he wins the Makerfield by-election tomorrow.

Rubin Blount, 28, was sent to live with Melanie James, 63, and her partner Kenneth Newton, 57, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, by social workers, jurors heard.