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If the Boomers have failed, Gen X has been a disappointment and the millennials are missing in action, then the composition of our future elites matters.

In the past few years, theatre performances starring Catherine Tate , David Threlfall and Hollywood veteran Sigourney Weaver have all struggled to wow critics.

The undercover footage shows PC Jason Sinclair-Birt tell a colleague he 'whacked the s**t out of the back of his legs' while discussing the use of force on a detainee.

Following a renewed public outcry over his living arrangements, the disgraced ex-Duke of York is in talks about quitting his 30-room Grade II listed mansion on the Windsor Estate.

Apple has begun shipping U.S.-made AI servers from a new factory in Houston, Texas -- part of its $600 billion investment in American manufacturing and supply chains. CNBC reports: Apple Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan said on Thursday that the servers will power the company's Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute services. Apple is using its own silicon in its Apple Intelligence servers. "Our teams have done an incredible job accelerating work to get the new Houston factory up and running ahead of schedule and we plan to continue expanding the facility to increase production next year," Khan said in a statement. The Houston factory is on track to create thousands of jobs, Apple said. The Apple servers were previously manufactured overseas.

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As an intimate of the Royal Family, Lady Glenconner is the guardian of countless secrets.Now 93, she has written a new book that gives fascinating insights into the royals and the foibles of aristocracy…

GUY ADAMS: On the Louvre's first floor, surrounded by marble pillars, gilded wooden panels and a vaulted ceiling, visitors this week came across the world's most ornate stable door.

What was that? The Labour party on 11 per cent? In Caerphilly? When you look at the scale of the Government's humiliation in this week's by-election, you rub your eyes in disbelief.

The Prime Minister's leadership was called into question after the disastrous result in Caerphilly, South Wales.

As Prince Andrew reflects on his threadbare reputation, he can seek inspiration from a fellow military man once nearly as reviled as he is today.

If you tax something, you get less of it. She taxed jobs, now more people are unemployed. She taxed education, now schools are closing down. And now it looks like she's coming after people's savings.

This is the woman who sent an email to Jeffrey Epstein describing him as a 'supreme friend' - three years after he had been jailed for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

Looking at this month's Country Life magazine pictures of David and Victoria Beckham's country estate, it's hard to believe this is the same couple who sat on gold thrones at their wedding.

The ex Pussycat Doll, 47, said she was 'devastated and horrified' by the incident but claimed to have been unaware the audience had been waiting so long in their seats.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Guide: Microsoft Teams is about to deal a heavy blow to those who like to work from home for peace and quiet. In a new feature update rolling out December 2025, the platform will track a worker's location using the office Wi-Fi, to see whether you're actually there or not. From a boss' perspective, this would eliminate any of that confusion as to where your team actually is. But for those people who have found their own sanctuary of peaceful productivity by working from home, consider this a warning that Teams is about to tattle on you. According to the Microsoft 365 roadmap: "When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in." The location of that worker will apparently update automatically upon connecting. It's set to launch on Windows and macOS, with rollout starting at the end of this year. "This feature will be off by default," notes Microsoft. But "tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in."

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The hosting duo stunned fans of the BBC show on Thursday when they announced their departures from the ballroom in a surprise statement and video.

A diary item in Friday's paper said that Rishi Sunak had moved house to Mayfair. In fact, he has moved his office. We apologise for the misunderstanding.

One way AI can improve on human work

Computer scientists at UC Berkeley say that AI models show promise as a way to discover and optimize algorithms.…

After a busy day Genna Shepley settled on the sofa and started scrolling through all the pictures on her phone. But when she saw their family snap, she froze.

IBM announced that its quantum error-correction algorithm can now run in real time on standard AMD field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips -- a major step toward making quantum computing more practical and affordable. Reuters reports: In June, IBM said it had developed an algorithm to run alongside quantum chips that can address such errors. In a research paper seen by Reuters to be published on Monday, IBM will show it can run those algorithms in real time on a type of chip called a field programmable gate array manufactured by AMD. Jay Gambetta, director of IBM research, said the work showed that IBM's algorithm not only works in the real world, but can operate on a readily available AMD chip that is not "ridiculously expensive." "Implementing it, and showing that the implementation is actually 10 times faster than what is needed, is a big deal," Gambetta said in an interview. IBM has a multi-year plan to build a quantum computer called Starling by 2029. Gambetta said the algorithm work disclosed Friday was completed a year ahead of schedule.

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