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Adele made a rare public appearance to watch Justin Bieber's Coachella set with her son Angelo this weekend.

Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu, 27, has been charged with the murder of Finbar Sullivan, 21, after he was killed on April 7 at the popular north London beauty spot.

Mississippi has one warehouse — run by a contractor — that sells all the liquor for the entire state of 2.9 million people. "If a restaurant or store anywhere in Mississippi wanted a bottle of Jim Beam, they had to order it from the wholesale warehouse," reports the Washington Post. But then Mississippi's warehouse-managing contractor implemented a new computer system that wasn't compatible with the state's delivery system (like they'd promised it would be back in 2023). And then things got even worse... "The problem, business owners allege, is that the company tore out the conveyor belts but didn't hire humans to replace them." In February a state Revenue Department commissioner told lawmakers the state was hiring temporary replacement workers, but in the five weeks through March 29th they'd only managed to reduce "pending" orders by 21.7%, from 218,851 down to 171,190, according to stats from Mississippi Today. At least four Mississippi businesses are now suing the warehouse operator "claiming breach of contract and harm to their business." So what's it like in a state suddenly running dry? The Washington Post reports: Willie the one-eyed skeleton is dressed for Cinco de Mayo, but the liquor store where Willie sits ran out of Jose Cuervo months ago. Arrow Wine and Spirits is also out of Tito's and Burnett's vodka, Franzia boxed wine, Jack Daniels, and every kind of premixed margarita... Restaurants in Jackson had no wine on Valentine's Day, and bars on the Gulf Coast ran dry before Mardi Gras. At least five liquor shops have closed, and if cheap pints don't hit the corner stores soon, many of them will, too... [A]s both the state and its businesses lose millions in revenue, many say they see no real end to the crisis. Nearly 174,000 cases of alcohol are sitting in a warehouse north of Jackson, but no one seems to know how to get them out the door... Even the shops that have received deliveries say they often get the wrong thing — Jell-O shots, for instance, that should have been small-batch Norwegian gin... At Willie the one-eyed skeleton's liquor store they'd previously made 300 to 400 sales a day, according to the article, but last week had 34 customers. And Mississippi is one of 17 U.S. states requiring liquor stores to buy their liquor from distribution centers controlled by the state's Department of Revenue... Mississippi Today points out that while some want the state to finally privatize liquor distribution, "The state collects around $120 million a year in taxes on alcohol." Plus the state has already authorized "borrowing $95 million to construct a new warehouse, set to begin operations in 2027..." Thanks to Slashdot reader jrnvk for sharing the news.

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Donald Trump has announced the US will blockade the Strait of Hormuz after peace talks with Iran collapsed.

Americans are feeling the financial pinch of Trump's Iran war ahead of the midterm elections later this year.

A new film set to air on Netflix will reunite the castmembers from the legendary Inbetweeners

DANIEL MATTHEWS AT AUGUSTA: It is 159 steps from the clubhouse to the 18th green - a stroll that cuts through the core of Augusta, a cradle of power and history and sporting nirvana.

Bloomberg describes him as a "former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience." "For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories," Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now "My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory." Engramme connects to your **memorome**, i.e., entire digital life. Large Memory Models work in the same way that your brain encodes and retrieves information. Then memories are recalled automatically — no searching, no prompting, no hallucinations. [The startup's web site promises "omniscient AI to augment human cognition."] We have built the memory layer for EVERY app. Read our manifesto about augmenting human cognition. ["We are not just building software; we are enabling a complete transformation of human cognition. When the friction disappears between needing a piece of information and recalling it, the nature of thought itself changes. This synergy between biological intuition and digital precision will be the most disruptive force in modern history, fundamentally reshaping every profession... We are dedicated to creating a world where everyone has the power to remember everything they have ever learned, seen, or felt "] Welcome to a new future where you can remember everything. This is the MEMORY SINGULARITY: after 300,000 years, this is the moment that humans stop forgetting. Bloomberg reports that the startup (spun out of a lab at Harvard) is "in talks with investors to raise about $100 million, according to people familiar with the matter."

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Bloomberg describes him as a "former Harvard Medical School professor whose research has focused on the intersection of AI and neuroscience." "For the past 20 years, I studied how the human brain stores and retrieves memories," Kreiman writes on LinkedIn. And now "My co-founder Spandan Madan and I built a new algorithm to endow humans with perfect and infinite memory." Engramme connects to your **memorome**, i.e., entire digital life. Large Memory Models work in the same way that your brain encodes and retrieves information. Then memories are recalled automatically — no searching, no prompting, no hallucinations. [The startup's web site promises "omniscient AI to augment human cognition."] We have built the memory layer for EVERY app. Read our manifesto about augmenting human cognition. ["We are not just building software; we are enabling a complete transformation of human cognition. When the friction disappears between needing a piece of information and recalling it, the nature of thought itself changes. This synergy between biological intuition and digital precision will be the most disruptive force in modern history, fundamentally reshaping every profession... We are dedicated to creating a world where everyone has the power to remember everything they have ever learned, seen, or felt "] Welcome to a new future where you can remember everything. This is the MEMORY SINGULARITY: after 300,000 years, this is the moment that humans stop forgetting. Bloomberg reports that the startup (spun out of a lab at Harvard) is "in talks with investors to raise about $100 million, according to people familiar with the matter."

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Four suspects who were reportedly fighting with weapons in Colchester are said to still be on the run.

Four suspects who were reportedly fighting with weapons in Colchester are said to still be on the run.

Susan Boyle had always clung to her old pre-fame lifestyle, doggedly insisting on staying on in the former council house she had grown up in and occupied for six decades… until now.

Victor Meldrew. Basil Fawlty. Reginald Perrin. The grumpy, mentally checked-out, impossible older man is a great comic tradition. Hilarious on screen. Less so when you are sharing a bathroom...

If it wasn't for her sister's accident, Christine McNeill might not have known that she had a life-threatening bone disease until it was too late.

Eamonn Holmes has spoken out for the first time since revealing he suffered a stroke, as he shared a sweet message from his family on Sunday.

It's a subject that no one likes to think about, much less speak about with loved ones. But spending even just a few hours planning your finances for when you are gone can spare terrible heartache.

Despite the fact Kiki has been sober for almost a year, the damage done to her body after years of weekend drinking is irreversible. To put it quite simply - if she drinks again, she will die.

Posing by the pool with a glass of champagne in her beautifully manicured hand, Made In Chelsea's Binky Felstead could not seem more at ease.

The Burj Al Arab hotel, built on a man-made island jutting into the Persian Gulf, is famous for being designed like a billowing sail on one of the traditional local dhow boats.