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Jennifer Cahill, 34, died in 2023 after having a heart attack shortly after giving birth to baby Agnes, Joanna Kersley, senior coroner for Manchester North, heard.

Residents on Percy Thrower Avenue in Shropshire, were warned in May they had just 28 days to clear their gardens before developers would take 'action to remove the encroachment'.

Kylie Jenner shared a hilarious video of herself drunkenly arguing with her friends over a bag of potato chips following a wild night of partying.

Ethan Slater has appeared to address the speculation about his relationship with Ariana Grande, after insiders claimed the pair were heading for a split.

The star, 46, flashed quite the frosty expression as she sat in the back of a chauffeured car, her face communicating a mixture of irritation and annoyance.

According to royal biographer Richard Fitzwilliams, the Duchess has learned how the American businessman could benefit her endeavors and longs to get him on board.

One company alone was hit with more than 4,200 emails

More than 5,000 businesses that use Facebook for advertising were bombarded by tens of thousands of phishing emails in a credential- and data-stealing campaign.…

NATHAN SALT IN WYTHENSHAWE: This star-studded group of over-35 ex-pros have just blown South Liverpool away 13-0 to continue their invincible start to the season.

MOTORISTS are facing delays due to “severe congestion” along a busy road in Braintree.

After more than a decade of planning, the launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) is being celebrated in Mombasa, Kenya, this week at the Seventh Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa. From a report: The agency's establishment marks a pivotal moment in Africa's public health, at a time when the need for biomedical research conducted in Africa, focused on African health problems, has never been greater. Africa holds higher levels of human genetic diversity than anywhere else on Earth, but this diversity has not been adequately studied. And many globally approved treatments and vaccines for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis are less effective, and can even be harmful in some people of African ancestry. This year, cuts of billions of US dollars in international funding for biomedical research and health services in Africa have left millions of people without access to life-saving treatments or, in the case of researchers and health-care workers, unemployed. This demonstrates the immense vulnerability that comes with relying on funding from external donors. What's more, Africa's phenomenal population growth and pace of urbanization is bringing fresh challenges -- as well as opportunities -- around health and disease. In Africa's cities today, the inhabitants of increasingly affluent neighbourhoods are demanding high-quality medicines and health care. But in low-income areas, high population density, inadequate housing and poor sanitation are facilitating the spread of respiratory and diarrhoeal infections. And everywhere, inadequate diets, air pollution, smoking and physical inactivity are driving increased rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer. By 2100, Africa is expected to host 13 of the world's 20 largest cities, and such inequalities are likely to worsen.

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Up to 15 sites across the borough are being looked at to accommodate 1,100 new homes

Just hours before Meghan, 44, and Harry, 41, attended Kris Jenner 's 70th birthday party, they attended the Baby2Baby Gala at Pacific Design Centre in West Hollywood alongside Serena Williams

Ghoulish visitors are flocking to a churchyard after a tomb collapsed into a sinkhole, revealing a 300-year-old underground crypt.

It has undoubtedly been a turbulent year for Sydney Sweeney.

The Dash Dolls veteran wore a slinky pale lavender gown - to match her new fragrance - with her hair in soft waves. And there was something else the diva from Calabasas wore that was a shock

As Gartner offers another serving of word salad, it’s time to know your skillatrophy from your pipeline choke

A Gartner survey of 700 CIOs indicates that, by the end of the decade, all business IT work will involve AI, while bots will do 25 percent of that work by themselves. Good news: The analyst firm claims AI causes only one percent of job losses. Bad news: You'll have to learn some new jargon.…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world. While its algorithmic recommendations aren't necessarily the reason, its reach has meant that hundreds of millions of people are being fed a steady diet of music curated by a machine. Spotify's goal is to keep you listening no matter what. In her book Mood Machine, journalist Liz Pelly recounts a story told to her by a former Spotify employee in which Daniel Ek said, "our only competitor is silence." According to this employee, Spotify leadership didn't see themselves as a music company, but as a time filler. The employee explained that, "the vast majority of music listeners, they're not really interested in listening to music per se. They just need a soundtrack to a moment in their day." Simply providing a soundtrack to your day might seem innocent enough, but it informs how Spotify's algorithm works. Its goal isn't to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop. The company even went so far as to partner with music library services and production companies under a program called Perfect Fit Content, or PFC. This saw the creation of fake or "ghost" artists that flooded Spotify with songs that were specifically designed to be pleasant and ignorable. It's music as content, not art. [...] Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened.

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There's more to safer systems languages than Rust

If you're looking for a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible, real-time kernel, there's no shortage of projects trying to build one. Ironclad stands out for using the Ada programming language and its formally verifiable SPARK subset.…

Parents in Essex can now apply for primary school places for September 2026.

Parents in Essex can now apply for primary school places for September 2026.