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Braintree and Uttlesford Sergeant Harvey Hillson talks through the force's intensive blue light training course.

Kayti Edwards, the mother of the granddaughter, is said to have revealed the relation to the iconic singer last year during an emotional phone call.

Kris Jenner is reportedly far from thrilled with her $100,000 facelift nearly a year on - and is now said to be eyeing a 'revision' while comparing her results to other celebrity transformations.

Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its stock price has dropped more than 81%, to $100.51. And there's been other changes, reports Entrepreneur: In April 2025, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn made headlines after writing a memo calling the company "AI-first." In the memo, von Ahn announced that the language-learning platform would track employees' AI use in performance reviews. Now, a year later, von Ahn is backtracking and rethinking how he measures employee performance. He told the Silicon Valley Girl podcast earlier this month that Duolingo no longer considers AI use in performance reviews. The change arose after employees started to ask, "Do you just want us to use AI for AI's sake?" von Ahn explained. "We said no, look — the most important thing in your performance is that you are doing whatever your job is as well as possible. A lot of times, AI can help you with that, but if it can't, I'm not going to force you to do that," von Ahn said on the podcast. He felt as though the company was "trying to push something that in some cases did not fit" instead of "being held accountable for the actual outcome." The CEO is, however, still sticking to other "constructive constraints" he introduced in the April 2025 memo, including stopping contractor hiring in cases where AI can assume their workload... Von Ahn also mentioned that a few months ago, Duolingo had a day dedicated to vibe coding, or prompting AI to create an app without manually writing a single line of code. Every single person at the company, from engineers to human resources professionals, had to vibe code an app. Vibe coding has made an impact at the company. One of Duolingo's latest offerings, a course teaching users how to play chess, arose when two people vibe-coded the first prototype of it, the CEO said. Neither of them knew how to play chess or program, but they managed to use AI to create the whole chess curriculum and a prototype of the app in about six months last year. Now chess is Duolingo's fastest-growing course, according to von Ahn. "At this point, we have seven million daily active users that are learning chess," the CEO said on the podcast.

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The Sussexes suffer a fresh blow today as it is revealed an overwhelming four-to-one majority of Britons are opposed to them using their titles for commercial gain.

After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press: In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be -named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to have their company's lander ready first. Musk's Starship and Bezos' Blue Moon are vying for the all-important Artemis IV moon landing in 2028. Two astronauts will aim for the south polar region, the preferred location for [NASA Administrator Jared] Isaacman's envisioned $20 billion to $30 billion moon base. Vast amounts of ice are almost certainly hidden in permanently shadowed craters there — ice that could provide water and rocket fuel. The docking mechanism for Artemis III's close-to-home trial run is already at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. The latest model Starship is close to launching on a test flight from South Texas, and a scaled-down version of Blue Moon will attempt a lunar landing later this year.

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Figures show that last year just one in every 34 people who applied for a post as a practical driving test examiner got the job - meaning only 327 applicants were successful out of a total of 11,132.

An ex-master in his 80s, who taught for several decades at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, has been arrested on suspicion of rape and indecent assault at the £53,000-a-year school.

Ms Smith has signed up to an upmarket £2,350 bootcamp programme to gain muscle that has placed her on a strict eating plan along with a hardcore exercise regime.

He may only be 50th in line to the throne but Britain's 'coolest royal', Cassius Taylor, has just taken the number one spot in a list of the country's most eligible bachelors.

Tom Cruise is expected to make about £100 million for his return as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell - and he'll repeat his producer role in the blockbuster franchise.

One Born Every Minute is making a return to Channel 4, seven years after it was axed.

The world-famous institution has launched a fully funded course for 'talented young musicians' but says only state school pupils need apply.

Meghan Markle was speaking to a private audience at Her Best Life retreat on Friday as her four-day trip to Australia with Prince Harry came to an end.

The King and Queen are about to embark on the most delicate royal visit to an ally in almost 70 years.

A record 80,793 women were prescribed the hormone last year compared to 9,756 in 2020 following endorsements from celebrities including Davina McCall who credit it with boosting sex lives.

President Trump convened with his most trusted advisors on Saturday to discuss the ongoing tensions with Iran as the deadline until the ceasefire deal collapses draws nearer.

The cadet made the comment during a question-and-answer session in which he and other cadets were asked about dangers to British security.

It's enough to leave the average shopper feeling badly stung. But at Harrods, consumers with deeper pockets are swarming to buy one of the world's rarest honeys.

Emails buried in the Epstein Files expose how, from January 2020, Andrew's legal team became embroiled in nine months of fraught negotiations with US authorities.