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Over the course of my (almost) 40-year career as a beauty editor on glossy magazines such as Red and Good Housekeeping, I tried and tested thousands of fancy creams.

There was great fanfare for the 15-time major winner as a group of spectators showed their support for him, despite him being arrested 1,300  miles away days earlier. 

Apple unveiled new device-level age restrictions in the UK on Wednesday. "After downloading a new update, users will now have to confirm that they are 18 or older to access unrestricted features," reports Gizmodo. "Users will be able to confirm their age with a credit card or by scanning an ID." For those underage or who have not confirmed their age, Apple will turn on Web Content Filter and Communication Safety, which will not only restrict access to certain apps or websites, but will also monitor messages, shared photo albums, AirDrop, and FaceTime calls for nudity. Apple didn't specify exactly which services and features are banned for under-18 users, but it will likely be in compliance with UK legislation... The British government does not require Apple and other OS providers to institute device-level age checks, but it does restrict minor access to online pornography under the Online Safety Act, which passed in 2023. So far, that restriction has only been implemented at the website level, but UK officials have been worried about easy loopholes to evade the age restrictions, like VPNs. The broader tech industry has been campaigning for some time to use device-level age checks instead in response to the rising tide of under-16 social media and internet bans around the world. Last month, in a landmark social media trial in California, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also supported this idea, saying that conducting age verification "at the level of the phone is just a lot clearer than having every single app out there have to do this separately." Pornhub-operator Aylo had advocated for device-level restrictions in the UK as well, and even sent out letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft in November asking for OS-level age verification... The most obvious question: Could this be brought stateside?

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In a significant escalation to the month-long war, Iran's proxy group in Yemen yesterday issued a warning over the waterway which is known as the 'Gate of Tears' in Arabic.

The age-defying stars of today refuse to chop their hair into sensible bobs and stick to flowy, modest dresses.

Chocofay is set to open a new store at Lakeside Shopping Centre in Essex

It's been 30 years since Leonardo DiCaprio locked eyes with Claire Danes through the Capulet mansion's fishtank in Baz Luhrmann nineties take on Shakespeare's most famous love affair.

The former Duke of York was reportedly urged to stop horse riding after aides feared it would be a 'bad look' for him to be seen enjoying himself while under police investigation.

The British version of the US hit has earned mixed reviews so far, with it recently revealed by industry sources that Sky have spent approximately £2million per episode on the show.

Five Guys CEO Jerry Murrell said he gave his employees a $1.5 million bonus after a chaotic day in the workplace because he 'didn't want anybody shooting me in the back'.

The pair split in 2023 after five years of marriage, and have continued to co-parent their three-year-old daughter together.

Robyn, who welcomed her son Tyko in July 2023, also admitted that being a single parent can be 'very, very taxing.'

The Geordie Shore star, 36, has kept her fans updated on her pregnancy journey as she has navigated her entry into motherhood while Jordan has been recovering.

The mother of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi's glamorous ex has broken her silence on his rumoured 'marriage troubles' with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's daughter.

Winslow Train Station in Buckinghamshire was finished in October 2024 but has yet to welcome passengers, with only heritage steam and freight trains currently running along the line.

How powerful is Jupiter's lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter for the past decade), researchers determined Jupiter's lightning bolts are 100 to 10,000 times more energetic than earth's: A single bolt of lightning on Earth releases about 1 billion joules of energy. That means the most extreme bolts of jovian lightning carry 10 trillion joules of energy, equivalent to 2400 tons of TNT, or one-sixth the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Based on the rates of flashes seen by Juno, storms on this tempestuous world can unleash the force of multiple nuclear weapons every minute... The four storms Juno studied were monstrous, says Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the study's authors. There were three flashes per second on average, often emerging from the hearts of storms that are 3000 kilometers across, longer than the distance from New York City to Denver. The researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope (and photographs from Juno's camera) to track Jupiter's storms with such precision that their radiometer could then pick out individual lightning flashes, according to the article. "It's just a massive ball of gas. It makes sense that there's very energetic lightning happening," says Daniel Mitchard, a lightning physicist at Cardiff University who wasn't involved with the new study. But confirming such suspicions "is exciting," he says, because lightning plays an important role in forging complex chemistry — including the sort that primordial life is built on. Thanks to Slashdot reader sciencehabit for sharing the article.

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For Prince Philip, the first intimations of mortality came at the end of 2011, just two days before Christmas.

Pictures show emergency services at A130 near Rettendon following a crash

The incident has shone a light on the 15-time major winner's relationship with Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of the president and mother to five of his grandchildren.

The 50-year-old golf legend was arrested for DUI on Friday after he attempted to overtake a truck and trailer at high speed on a residential Jupiter Island road.