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Professor Robert Winston, who became a household name through his documentaries on child development, claimed the 'highly dangerous' walkout could harm people's trust in the profession.

The 44-year-old Boardwalk Empire alum posted $15K bail at his arraignment and pled not guilty to a nine-count indictment

After watching Emmanuel Macron for any length of time you understand why his wife whacked him. What an insufferable little twerp he is.

The city of Centerville, Ohio has deployed AI-enabled garbage trucks that scan residents' trash and send personalized postcards scolding them for improper recycling. Dayton Daily News reports: "Reducing contamination in our recycling system lowers processing costs and improves the overall efficiency of our collection," City Manager Wayne Davis said in a statement regarding the AI pilot program. "This technology allows us to target problem areas, educate residents and make better use of city resources." Residents whose items don't meet the guidelines will be notified via a personalized postcard, one that tells them which items are not accepted and provides tips on proper recycling. The total contract amount for the project is $74,945, which is entirely funded through a Montgomery County Solid Waste District grant, Centerville spokeswoman Kate Bostdorff told this news outlet. The project launched Monday, Bostdorff said. "A couple of the trucks have been collecting baseline recycling data, and we have been working through software training for a few weeks now," she said. [...] Centerville said it will continually evaluate how well the AI system works and use what it learns during the pilot project to "guide future program enhancements."

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Reform voters would be more likely to back Labour at the next election - but only if Starmer can deliver on his pledge to reduce the number of small boat crossings, a poll has found.

Messages sent by gang leader Redon Bushi showed his plans to supply a minimum of 832kg of cocaine, with a street value of up to £81,640,000, across London and the UK.

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Android is changing how it gives developers access to early features. The company is replacing its old Developer Preview model with a new Canary channel that provides rolling updates all year long. This new approach is meant to give developers earlier and more consistent access to experimental tools and APIs. Previously, Developer Previews had to be manually flashed onto devices. They only ran during the earliest stages of each release cycle and stopped once Android entered the beta phase. That meant promising features that were not quite ready for beta had nowhere to go and no way to collect feedback. The Canary channel solves that by running in parallel with the existing beta program and delivering over the air updates automatically.

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Chris Yates' wife Kim died by suicide three days after providers at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Kansas refused to admit her. Yates spoke with Daily Mail after courts reached a historic verdict.

Maya Jama has reportedly been scouted by Amazon to present a new entertainment show.

A male model who graced the cover of over 600 romance novels has opened up about the extreme lengths he went to in order to stay picture perfect at all times.

The six-part drama aired in May last year but there had been no news of a second series until now.

The comedian joined a slew of stars for the celebration at London's St Paul's Cathedral over the weekend, where the Spice Girl tied the knot for the third time with hairdresser Rory McPhee.

The ping of a smartphone is perhaps the most familiar sound in the life of today's footballer. For Birmingham City players, however, sometimes the man on the other end of the line is Tom Brady.

For those of you who fondly imagined Gregg Wallace had gone away - think again. The erstwhile BBC presenter blames all his failings on a diagnosis that he has autism.

'This is one of my firm favourites'

Brooklyn stunned fans on Thursday when he shared a sweet message for his sister Harper to celebrate her 14th birthday, despite remaining silent and shunning his father's 50th birthday back in May.

Nearly 42 per cent of holidaymakers say they don't wear all the clothes they pack while away. Countdown star Rachel Riley, 39, has unpicked the tricky problem of how to take less but wear more.

The singer, 58, has embarked on a new tour with his brother Liam, 52, after they famously split in 2009.

We all like to imagine ourselves as generous hosts when we acquire homes abroad. You don't reckon though - or at least I didn't - on how much work it ends up being, says CHRISTA D'SOUZA.

Longtime Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares a report from Gizmodo: YouTube is inundated with AI-generated slop, and that's not going to change anytime soon. Instead of cutting down on the total number of slop channels, the platform is planning to update its policies to cut out some of the worst offenders making money off "spam." At the same time, it's still full steam ahead adding tools to make sure your feeds are full of mass-produced brainrot. In an update to its support page posted last week, YouTube said it will modify guidelines for its Partner Program, which lets some creators with enough views make money off their videos. The video platform said it requires YouTubers to create "original" and "authentic" content, but now it will "better identify mass-produced and repetitious content." The changes will take place on July 15. The company didn't advertise whether this change is related to AI, but the timing can't be overlooked considering how more people are noticing the rampant proliferation of slop content flowing onto the platform every day. The AI "revolution" has resulted in a landslide of trash content that has mired most creative platforms. Alphabet-owned YouTube has been especially bad recently, with multiple channels dedicated exclusively to pumping out legions of fake and often misleading videos into the sludge-filled sewer that has become users' YouTube feeds. AI slop has become so prolific it has infected most social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. Last month, John Oliver on "Last Week Tonight" specifically highlighted several YouTube channels that crafted obviously fake stories made to show White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in a good light. These channels and similar accounts across social media pump out these quick AI-generated videos to make a quick buck off YouTube's Partner Program.

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