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Oduba described how the addiction gave him panic attacks, hurt his relationships and cost him 'thousands of pounds' on subscription sites.

Former PC Bouette was sentenced after sending messages relating to the sexual abuse of children

The Traitors' Charlotte Chilton has vowed to step back from social media amid her ongoing paternity battle with singer Conor Maynard. 

Over the past decade, it has been interesting to watch companies push the rock that is quantum computing up the steep hill. …

Quantinuum Makes Another Milestone On Commercial Quantum Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Brits have flocked to social media to discuss the unusually mild weather - with one claiming 'it's a little too warm for mid-November'.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The company recently said its family of Copilot assistants attracts 150 million active users each month. But OpenAI's ChatGPT claims 800 million weekly active users, and Google's Gemini boasts 650 million a month. Microsoft has an edge with corporate customers, thanks to a long history of selling them software and cloud services. But it has struggled to crack the consumer market -- especially people under 30. "We're a challenger brand in this area, and we're kind of up and coming," Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi said in an interview. Mehdi hopes to persuade key influencers to make Copilot their chatbot of choice and then use their popularity to market the assistant to their millions of followers. He says Microsoft is already getting more bang for the buck with influencers than with traditional media, but didn't provide any metrics. [...] Using non-techies as spokespeople is meant to reinforce Microsoft's campaign to sell its chatbot as a life coach for everyone. Or as Consumer AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a recent essay, an AI companion that "helps you think, plan and dream."

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Around 100 extra Metropolitan Police officers were deployed to tackle some of the most common offences blighting the capital as part of Operation Baselife.

He will appear at court

Scientists have broken down the good - and not so good - effects of fasting diets.

The grim milestone has been reached under Shabana Mahmood more quickly than under any of her predecessors since 2022.

A 21-year-old woman was bitten in the neck by a lion after being dragged off a horse during a South Africa safari - but miraculously survived.

Reappearing alongside hosts Susanna and Richard Madeley on the show on Monday, Kevin was finally seen wearing a poppy - leaving ITV viewers divided.

Rod Stewart's success needs no introduction but one of his children encountered their own type of hit-maker at the weekend.

I say this not just because it is crucial for the very survival of the monarchy, which is only just starting to recover from those humiliating revelations about their parents.

The Duchess attended the glitzy James Bond-themed party at Jeff Bezos 's $165million mansion on Remembrance weekend with the commemorative symbol noticeably missing from her glamorous outfit.

Researchers in Egypt and Germany have used high-tech scanning methods to peer behind the pyramid's historic granite bricks.

American YouTuber MrBeast, also known as Jimmy Donaldson, took to X to announce that he will be opening his own theme park this week.

He attended A&E after the stabbing and is now in a serious condition

The explosive edit led to the downfall of director-general Tim Davie and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness, (pictured).

The day after celebrating her 70th birthday, the Kardashian-Jenner matriarch took to Instagram to share photos of herself brandishing a pistol in a glamorous red gown.