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Kylie Weitz was found dead in Garrison after she suffered a gunshot wound to the face. The initial 911 call suggested that Weitz had accidentally shot herself.

Comedian and actor Alex Duong, best known for his appearances on Blue Bloods, has passed away at 42 after battling cancer.

Joan Collins looked incredible in pink tartan as she stepped out to watch the gala performance of Kinky Boots at the London Coliseum on Sunday.

The This Morning presenter, 41, has baffled neighbours about why she has stayed put, despite her lucrative TV career.

The man who called police told local media that two men has approached him in the night and asked for his help to dig out the sand from under the boat.

Saving Britain's oil and gas industry is a personal mission of mine. In Aberdeen, across Scotland and the whole of the United Kingdom, I have seen for myself how important the offshore industry is.

Utility-scale solar construction... by robots! It's "one of the largest real-world demonstrations," notes Electrek, with 100 MW of capacity installed by the "Maximo" robots from AES, one of the world's top power companies. Maximo uses AI "to automate the heavy lifting of solar panels and accelerate solar installation," according to their web page, which shows a video of Maximo at work installing a vast field of solar panels in Kern County, California. With assistance from Nvidia, the Maximo team could "develop, test and refine robotic capabilities through physics-based simulation and AI driven modeling before deploying updates in the field," reports Electrek, and they're aiming for a full GW of solar generating capacity: After completing the first half of the Bellefield complex last summer, Maximo engineers went into a higher gear, with the latest version 3.0 robots consistently surpassing an installation rate of one module per minute, with construction crews installing as many as 24 solar panel modules per hour, per person. If that sounds fast, that's because it is. At full tilt, the latest Maximo robot-equipped crews have nearly doubled the output of traditional installation methods at similar solar locations throughout Southern California. "Reaching 100 MW is an important milestone for Maximo and for the role robotics can play in solar construction," explains Chris Shelton, president of Maximo. "It demonstrates that field robotics can move beyond experimentation and deliver consistent results at utility scale. As solar deployment continues to accelerate globally, technologies that improve installation speed, quality and reliability will become increasingly important...." Like just about every other business that demands a high degree of physical labor, the construction industry is facing huge labor shortages, making machines like Maximo that provide real efficiency gains welcome additions to the job site. "The combination of AI, vision, robotics and simulation driven engineering reduced development and validation timelines," the Maximo team said in a statement, "and increased confidence in field performance as the robotic fleet scaled."

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The comedian, 49, recently confirmed he had become a baron after splashing out £3.25million on a Traitors-style castle in Scotland.

The tennis power couple have been together since 2020 and announced their engagement in December 2024 by posting a photo to social media of Boulter wearing a stunning ring on her wedding finger.

When I tell people I'm 70, their reaction is almost always the same: shocked disbelief. Strangers often assume I'm in my 50s, if not younger.

The incident involving a black Suzuki Swift happened at around 9.30pm in the Friar Gate area of Derby.

"What happens when you can describe the social experience you want and have it built for you...?" asks Bluesky? "We've just started experimenting, but we're sharing it now because we want you to build alongside us." Called "Attie" — because it's built with Bluesky's decentralized publishing framework, AT Protocol (which is open source) — the new assistant turns natural language prompts into social feeds, without users having to know how to code. (It's part of Bluesky's mission to "develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.") Engadget reports: On the Attie website, examples include prompts like, "Show me electronic music and experimental sound from people in my network" or "Builders working on agent infrastructure and open protocol design." "It feels more like having a conversation than configuring software," [writes Bluesky's former CEO/current chief innovation officer, Jay Graber, in a blog post]. "You describe the sort of posts you want to see, and the coding agent builds the feed you described." Graber added that Attie is a separate app from Bluesky and users don't have to use the new AI assistant if they don't want to. However, since Attie and Bluesky were built on the same framework, it could mean there will be some cross-app implementation between the two or any other app built on the AT Protocol. "Attie is open for beta signups today, and we'll be sharing what we learn along the way," Graber writes in the blog post. "To learn more about Attie, visit: Attie.AI. Come help us find out what this can be." The blog post warns that "Right now, AI is undermining human agency at the same time it's enhancing it," since "The proliferation of low-quality AI-generated content is making public social networks noisier and less trustworthy..." And in a world where "signal is getting harder to find... The major platforms aren't trying to fix this problem." They're using AI to increase the time users spend on-platform, to harvest training data, and to shape what users see and believe through systems they can't inspect and didn't choose. We think AI should serve people, not platforms... An open protocol puts this power directly in users' hands. You can use it to build your own feeds, create software that works the way you want it to, and find signal in the noise. We built the AT Protocol so anyone could build any app they imagine on top of it, but until recently "anyone" really meant "anyone who can code." Agentic coding tools change that. For the first time, an open protocol can be genuinely open to everyone... The Atmosphere [Bluesky's interoperable ecosystem] is an open data layer with a clearly defined schema for applications, which makes it uniquely well-suited for coding agents to build on... Bluesky will continue to evolve as a social app millions of people rely on. Attie will be where we experiment with agentic social. AI is an accelerant on whatever it's applied to. I want it to accelerate decentralizing social and putting power back in users' hands. But I don't think the most interesting things built on AT Protocol will come from us. They're going to come from everyone who picks up these tools and starts building.

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From losing bedrooms to 'Instagrammable' kitchens, we asked property investors, estate agents, interior designers, finance specialists and renovation experts what exactly turns a buyer off a house.

The queue began over the road where a security guard handed customers a ticket allowing them to join a second queue on another street, snaking airport-style into the restaurant.

Six in ten Brits came up with a 'Eureaka!' moment while sat on the loo, according to a new study, with nearly half believing the loo beats an office in providing a needed creative environment.

But when the 35-year-old Bond frontrunner stepped out at the London premiere of his new film Fuze this week, fans were quick to notice something… different.

Thompson, 73, pulled off one of the greatest engineering feats in modern history in 1988 by successfully locating the wreck of the gold bar and coin-laden SS Central America.

Amid fallout over President Donald Trump's war in Iran, conservative media personalities have seized on a chance to divide Republican voters.

Barber, 27, is one of the sport's best female talents but she was on the end of a shocking KO by Mexican rival Alexa Grasso at UFC Fight Night 271 in Seattle, with fans fearing for her health after a violent end.

Society heiress Belle Burden revealed how her rocky divorce from financier Henry Davis affected their 12-year-old daughter.