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A PM active in international diplomacy may feel, on re-entering the Commons, that the national legislature is no longer sufficient for his grandeur.

The rugby player, 39, was seen holding hands with the glamorous reality starlet, who boasts a string of famous exes, as they attended Cheltenham Festival on Wednesday.

Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives

Column  My decade-old and very well-travelled 13" MacBook Pro finally died, and I hoped my new-ish M2 iPad Pro could replace it.…

The brand has boldly described the finished product as 'a new era of super stroller' - but not everyone was impressed.

Baldoni's team plans to depose a major Hollywood star ahead of a possible trial, with sources telling DailyMail.com that his team want to get 'the full scope of Reynolds' conduct'.

Disney has 'zero faith' in the upcoming 'woke' Snow White live-action adaptation  starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, insiders have claimed.

Intel has appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO in an effort to turn around the struggling chipmaker, following the resignation of Pat Gelsinger. CNBC reports: Tan was previously CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which makes software used by all the major chip designers, including Intel. He was an Intel board member but departed last year, citing other commitments. Tan replaces interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and MJ Holthaus, who took over in December when former Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger was ousted. Tan is also rejoining Intel's board. [...] Intel shares rose over 12% in extended trading on Wednesday.

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The Lynchburg Commonwealth's Attorney Office have issued a petition for one count of assault and battery against Alaila Everett.

Actress and musician Bai Ling revealed she will be naming many big stars she's had romances with in her upcoming tell-all memoir My Outrageous Romances In Hollywood,

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Google DeepMind announced two new AI models designed to control robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. The company claims these models will help robots of many shapes and sizes understand and interact with the physical world more effectively and delicately than previous systems, paving the way for applications such as humanoid robot assistants. [...] Google's new models build upon its Gemini 2.0 large language model foundation, adding capabilities specifically for robotic applications. Gemini Robotics includes what Google calls "vision-language-action" (VLA) abilities, allowing it to process visual information, understand language commands, and generate physical movements. By contrast, Gemini Robotics-ER focuses on "embodied reasoning" with enhanced spatial understanding, letting roboticists connect it to their existing robot control systems. For example, with Gemini Robotics, you can ask a robot to "pick up the banana and put it in the basket," and it will use a camera view of the scene to recognize the banana, guiding a robotic arm to perform the action successfully. Or you might say, "fold an origami fox," and it will use its knowledge of origami and how to fold paper carefully to perform the task. In 2023, we covered Google's RT-2, which represented a notable step toward more generalized robotic capabilities by using Internet data to help robots understand language commands and adapt to new scenarios, then doubling performance on unseen tasks compared to its predecessor. Two years later, Gemini Robotics appears to have made another substantial leap forward, not just in understanding what to do but in executing complex physical manipulations that RT-2 explicitly couldn't handle. While RT-2 was limited to repurposing physical movements it had already practiced, Gemini Robotics reportedly demonstrates significantly enhanced dexterity that enables previously impossible tasks like origami folding and packing snacks into Zip-loc bags. This shift from robots that just understand commands to robots that can perform delicate physical tasks suggests DeepMind may have started solving one of robotics' biggest challenges: getting robots to turn their "knowledge" into careful, precise movements in the real world. DeepMind claims Gemini Robotics "more than doubles performance on a comprehensive generalization benchmark compared to other state-of-the-art vision-language-action models." Google is advancing this effort through a partnership with Apptronik to develop next-generation humanoid robots powered by Gemini 2.0. Availability timelines or specific commercial applications for the new AI models were not made available.

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A female prison officer who was in a year-long relationship with a convicted murderer smuggled drugs for him, it has been revealed. 

Laura McPherson, 35, told company director Jon Leonard that she had cervical, ovarian, colon, bowel and breast cancer and even led her young daughter to believe she was dying.

Law enforcement officers have warned iPhone users of a new tactic scammers are using to try and steal personal information. People have reported nefarious text messages about a fake 'investigation.'

While everyone seems to have an opinion on whether Bridget Jones should be with a man 20 years her junior in the latest film, there's no doubt which side I'm on.

The Canadian comedian's latest target has been Meghan Markle as she has publicly laid into her in the wake of her much-derided Netflix series, With Love, Meghan.

The German Federal Intelligence Service carried out a secret investigation into the origins of Covid and evidence supports the lab-leak theory with '80 to 95 percent certainty.'

JACK GAUGHAN: Man United's grand plans for a £2billion super stadium have raised the eyebrows of industry experts who doubt key aspects of the eye-popping proposal unveiled this week.

The married father made the shocking admission while giving evidence at London's Upper Tribunal as he seeks to overturn a finance industry ban and £1.8m fine by the City's regulator.

Pakistan militants said on Wednesday they had killed 50 hostages after hijacking the train that was carrying more than 400 passengers. These figures are yet to be verified

Surveillance footage captured the man throwing the cat, who has been named Willow, into a dumpster from a white bag in Laguna Hills, California , on Monday night.