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Australian actress Sarah Snook stunned Vogue readers on Saturday when she debuted a very glamorous new look on the cover of the iconic fashion magazine. 

Camilla, 77, has made no secret of her frustration that he's continued his punishing schedule throughout the last year. It is a concern shared by other family members, including Prince William.

KEMI BADENOCH: It's no surprise all these hikes are coming on April 1. Labour are taking the British public for fools.

The family of Sven-Goran Eriksson, England's first foreign manager, have been forced to auction off his memorabilia after being landed in £8million worth of debt upon his death, according to reports. 

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) says banks no longer need prior approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, such as holding digital currency assets or partnering with companies in the industry. Axios reports: After publishing a general caution against banks participating in the industry just two years ago, the FDIC is the latest Trump administration regulator to change its tune entirely amid the president's warm embrace of crypto. "With today's action, the FDIC is turning the page on the flawed approach of the past three years," FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill said in a statement. The OCC was the first of those regulators to revise their guidance, telling banks it supervises earlier this month that they no longer need permission to engage in certain common cryptocurrency-related activities. The Fed as of Friday had not issued any update, though chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers during a congressional hearing last month that the central bank would take a fresh look at the guidance. The new policy clarifies that "FDIC-supervised institutions may engage in permissible activities, including ... digital assets, provided that they adequately manage the associated risks."

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In a 'fresh humiliation' for the Energy Secretary, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticised the time being taken on reviews of gas and electricity prices.

To the outside world, they appeared to be the perfect couple: a handsome doctor ostensibly devoted to his pretty nuclear engineer wife and their two young sons.

The TV presenter and journalist, 54, revealed that she headed to the party island with her grown-up sons Sam, 22, Finn, 21, and 19-year-old Jack, last summer.

On the latest episode of his podcast, Tucker Carlson was left stunned after cancer researcher Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong revealed what may have caused America's cancer 'pandemic.'

A Yeovil Town supporter has been banned from attending matches due to his negative comments about the club on social media.

President Donald Trump gave a two-word explanation for why the U.S. needed Greenland during an Oval Office back-and-forth on Friday.

A Fox News segment went off the rails after a podcast made a shocking accusation about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

An English-speaking tourist who tackled a rampaging knifeman after he stabbed five people in Amsterdam has been given a bravery award.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can't even see -- ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn, infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing, or specific wavelengths that plants use for photosynthesis. Or perhaps using a special camera designed to distinguish the subtle visible differences that make paint colors appear just right under specific lighting. Scientists and engineers do this every day, and they're drowning in the resulting data. A new compression format called Spectral JPEG XL might finally solve this growing problem in scientific visualization and computer graphics. Researchers Alban Fichet and Christoph Peters of Intel Corporation detailed the format in a recent paper published in the Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT). It tackles a serious bottleneck for industries working with these specialized images. These spectral files can contain 30, 100, or more data points per pixel, causing file sizes to balloon into multi-gigabyte territory -- making them unwieldy to store and analyze. [...] The current standard format for storing this kind of data, OpenEXR, wasn't designed with these massive spectral requirements in mind. Even with built-in lossless compression methods like ZIP, the files remain unwieldy for practical work as these methods struggle with the large number of spectral channels. Spectral JPEG XL utilizes a technique used with human-visible images, a math trick called a discrete cosine transform (DCT), to make these massive files smaller. Instead of storing the exact light intensity at every single wavelength (which creates huge files), it transforms this information into a different form. [...] According to the researchers, the massive file sizes of spectral images have reportedly been a real barrier to adoption in industries that would benefit from their accuracy. Smaller files mean faster transfer times, reduced storage costs, and the ability to work with these images more interactively without specialized hardware. The results reported by the researchers seem impressive -- with their technique, spectral image files shrink by 10 to 60 times compared to standard OpenEXR lossless compression, bringing them down to sizes comparable to regular high-quality photos. They also preserve key OpenEXR features like metadata and high dynamic range support. The report notes that broader adoption "hinges on the continued development and refinement of the software tools that handle JPEG XL encoding and decoding." Some scientific applications may also see JPEG XL's lossy approach as a drawback. "Some researchers working with spectral data might readily accept the trade-off for the practical benefits of smaller files and faster processing," reports Ars. "Others handling particularly sensitive measurements might need to seek alternative methods of storage."

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Actress Jenny McCarthy has revealed how she 'almost died' being a vegan and had to switch to the influencer-loved carnivore diet

Elon Musk has suffered another blow after his $44 billion prized possession crashed.

Despite their marriage now being over, Rex Heuermann's wife Asa Ellerup and daughter Victoria appeared in court in Riverhead, Long Island, Friday for a hearing about key DNA evidence.

Trixie Baker inherited it upon the death of her father, Gonville and Caius graduate Geoffrey Hunter Baker, in 1999 aged 83.

A poll of 1,000 mums and dads has found that parents will read their child's favourite tale from start to finish an average of eight times in a typical week.

You've got to hand it to Rachel Reeves. Despite her lamentable Spring Statement being savaged across the political spectrum, the Chancellor is putting a brave face on it.