Pupils can no longer keep phones in bags or pockets under new school ban
Heads will have to ditch 'not seen, not heard' policies, which allow pupils to keep phones with them in lessons as long as they are switched to silent.
The new Fab Four! Sophie sent William into fits of laughter while Kate was deep in conversation with Edward as they took centre stage at late Queen's centenary celebration
King Charles led the full delegation of senior royals at a Buckingham Palace reception honouring Queen Elizabeth II's life and legacy on what would have been her 100th birthday.
Popular 'gentle' exercise can cut high blood pressure as much as drugs, study finds
British researchers suggested that yoga may be as effective for treating blood pressure as some medications.
The union 'stranglehold' on Tube drivers' recruitment: Campaigners demand £72K-a-year jobs are advertised on open market amid fury at roles only offered to TfL workers
The lucrative roles - which go on to pay £72,000 a year - are almost never advertised to ordinary Londoners due to a cosy agreement between TfL and union barons.
Mother of influencer 'run over by X Factor finalist after 4am fight' begs fans to send 'healing and prayers' as she fights for life in hospital
Instagram and Tiktok star Klaudiaglam - real name Klaudia Zakrzewska - is in a critical condition in hospital after she and two other pedestrians were hit in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Transgender Utah woman and her lover are accused of abducting her 10-year-old and taking the child to Cuba to have sex change surgery
Transgender Utah woman Rose Inessa-Ethington, 42, and her partner Blue Inessa-Ethington are accused of kidnapping her 10-year-old child to Cuba for gender reassignment surgery.
The famously tiny car making a big comeback: Smart's ForTwo - a 2000s icon for being a doddle to park - returns next year
The Smart ForTwo became a huge hit when it arrived in Britain at the turn of the Millennium. Its incredibly petite dimensions made it the ideal motor for city living. In 2027, it is back.
Google Unveils Two New AI Chips For the 'Agentic Era'
Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving," Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post. Both chips will become available later this year. CNBC reports: After years of producing chips that can both train artificial intelligence models and handle inference work, Google is separating those tasks into distinct processors, its latest effort to take on Nvidia in AI hardware. [...] None of the tech giants are displacing Nvidia, and Google isn't even comparing the performance of its new chips with those from the AI chip leader. Google did say the training chip enables 2.8 times the performance of the seventh-generation Ironwood TPU, announced in November, for the same price, while performance is 80% better for the inference processor.
Nvidia said its upcoming Groq 3 LPU hardware will draw on large quantities of static random-access memory, or SRAM, which is used by Cerebras, an AI chipmaker that filed to go public earlier this month. Google's new inference chip, dubbed TPU 8i, also relies on SRAM. Each chip contains 384 megabytes of SRAM, triple the amount in Ironwood. The architecture is designed "to deliver the massive throughput and low latency needed to concurrently run millions of agents cost-effectively," Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, wrote in a blog post.
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Essex woman 'will never return' to McDonald's after finding ants in her drink twice
She said that the incident was 'disgusting' and when she asked for a replacement exactly the same thing happened again
Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor
Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers
The prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open source operating systems, code repositories, and containers in one US state, but stricter federal legislation has already been introduced in Congress.…
Mortgage rates in biggest fall for over a year - but borrowers warned Iran war Trumpflation shock could trigger fresh misery
In a boost for millions of borrowers, the average two-year fixed rate fell from 5.87 per cent to 5.83 per cent while a typical five-year deal dipped from 5.76 per cent to 5.73 per cent.
Marie Osmond, 66, shares brother Alan Osmond's final words prior to his death at 76
The Osmonds star passed away on Monday at the age of 76 and his younger sister Marie, 66, has now revealed Alan knew he was reaching the end of his life.
ANNABEL FENWICK ELLIOTT: Brawling mothers-in-law, a guest so drunk she took a screwdriver to her car... and you don't even want to KNOW what I'VE done at a boozy reception
I loathe weddings. No other festivity provides such fertile ground for drama, from the planning stages to the day itself.
Popular Essex café 'devastated' as business comes to an 'abrupt end'
The café has thanked everyone who supported the business
The disturbing thing my neighbour shouted at me late at night makes it clear just how broken Britain truly is: CLARE FOGES
I was applying a slick of lippy in the bedroom mirror before work when I froze. My downstairs neighbour was shouting at me, again - this time in a disturbing football-chant tune.
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: I fear Chancellor is coming for the triple lock
There is mounting evidence that the scrapping of the triple lock governing the annual increase applied to the state pension could be on the agenda.
Essex Police says no evidence that 'migrant' was taking pictures of children
Essex Police have quashed rumours being circulated online that a 'migrant' had been taking pictures of children in an Essex park
Alex Manninger's wife says she is 'broken' in heartbreaking tribute after former Arsenal star died following 'extreme tragedy' in Austria
The ex-Austria international was killed on Thursday in Salzburg, with local media outlet Salzburg ORF claiming his car was struck by a train on a level crossing at Pabing, near Nussdorf am Haunsberg.
Tributes pour in after death of councillor who 'dedicated life to Essex community'
Longstanding Chelmsford councillor dies 'completely unexpectedly'
Adam Thomas breaks down and reveals he is in therapy after 'bullying' row with David Haye on I'm A Celeb 'f***ed with him' - as the boxer shares a vile post reigniting their jungle feud
After David took another vile swipe at Adam on social media this week, the actor has revealed he is now receiving therapy following their run-in.