Playing 'Barbie and Ken' helps children improve vital social skills that tablets don't, study shows
Cardiff University researchers found playing with dolls helped both boys and girls improve empathy and understanding of other people's views.
Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC
Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say
GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla's offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year.…
CLARE FOGES: Men who don't have children think they can 'do a George Clooney' and procreate on a whim with a beautiful younger woman. Their cruelty has a devastating consequence
The bad news arrived in a brown envelope. I was sitting on the sofa, digging into a korma, half-watching telly as I went through the post.
This princess served the Crown for over 70 years and changed the Royal Family forever… yet you've likely never heard of her
Alexandra came of age at a turning point for women in the family. In doing so, she forged a path for later royals to follow, including Princesses Anne, Sophie and Catherine.
SaaS Apocalypse Could Be OpenSource's Greatest Opportunity
Longtime Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes: Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks in 2026, with hedge funds making billions shorting Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian. At FOSDEM 2026, cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg shut down his bug bounty program after AI-generated slop overwhelmed his team. A new article on HackerNoon argues that most commercial SaaS could inevitably become OpenSource, not out of ideology but economics. The author points to Proxmox replacing VMware at enterprise scale and startups like Holosign replicating DocuSign at $19/month flat as evidence. The catch, the article claims, is that maintainers who refuse to embrace AI tools risk being forked, or simply replicated from scratch, by those who do.
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Former Essex wedding venue to be demolished and replaced with homes
The former wedding venue and sports club will be demolished
I'm 54 with no filler, Botox or tweakments. These are the eight daily rituals that make me look a decade younger
'It was a choice,' Daniela Birch tells the Mail. 'I decided I wanted to feel vibrant in my fifties. Just because we get older doesn't mean we have to accept feeling tired or invisible.'
Plastic surgeon who stabbed rival and tried to burn down his £1m home to settle a 'professional grudge' is struck off
Jonathan Peter Brooks (pictured), 62, who specialised in treating burns, targeted fellow clinician Graeme Perks, 69, at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, in January 2021.
Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says
Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine.…
North Carolina parents sue overweight daycare worker who 'laid on top of their toddler to scroll on phone' until she suffocated to death
Madolyn 'Maddy' Amara-Serenity Mitchell died on May 19, 2025, after Alexandra Coffey, 29, allegedly smothered her to death while forcing her to take a nap.
Romps among the jacuzzi bubbles, sex in the sauna and giveaway sign that shows EVERYONE at a David Lloyd is after one thing. (If your partner is suddenly a late-night gym bunny, be warned!)
Before leaving the office where I worked as a PA for the evening, I nipped to the bathroom to style my hair, touch up my make-up and apply a spritz of perfume.
Inside Angry Ginge's VERY lucrative new property empire: Sources tell MOLLY CLAYTON all about his luxury new mansion, the surprising amount he's paying and his plans for his newfound fortune
Fresh from being crowned King of the Jungle last year on I'm a Celebrity, Angry Ginge has been enjoying his dramatic change in fortunes since ascending to TV royalty.
Britain's best 20 bakeries nationwide: The most sublime croissants. The blood-orange doughnut you must try. The life-changing custard tart, macarons and bread. All is revealed by experts
The rise of the ridiculously fancy baked good seems unstoppable, and with it the arrival of the 'destination bakery'. But which of the new 'hero bakeries' are really worth a visit?
Only survivor of Tesla Cybertruck horror crash that killed three wealthy students sues carmaker alleging its push-button door handles trapped him in burning vehicle
Jordan Miller, 21, is the sole survivor of a fiery Tesla Cybertruck crash that killed three wealthy college students in Piedmont, California.
Met police officer who hid his secret family and used false identity to dupe woman into abusive relationship is guilty of gross misconduct
Jackie Adedeji, 32, who has worked on projects for the BBC and Channel 4 , was 22 when she met then-38-year-old PC Ian Steel on a night out in June 2016.
'Cancelled' David Walliams suffers a fresh blow as his live theatre tour is now axed after being dropped by BGT, charities and his publisher over 'inappropriate behaviour towards women'
The children's author, 54, has experienced a fall from grace in recent years, that has seen him dropped from BGT his publisher, and a number of charities over allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour'.
Sarah Ferguson faces new shame as councillors prepare to strip her of the Freedom of the City of York
Councillors in the city are set to vote on a motion proposing to revoke the honour from her on March 26. They previously revoked Andrew's in 2022.
Mother of British man, 20, who died in lift shaft 'fall' on dream holiday is thrown out of inquest for arguing with coroner, saying British police must investigate case
Rachel Kerry insisted British police should be investigating son Tyler's death in Turkey because of suspicions it wasn't an accident.
Braintree pupils plant trees at new Community Diagnostic Centre
Pupils from Great Bradfords Junior School 'planted for patients' at the site of Braintree's new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC).
Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere
Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW
Ohio residents are proposing a ban on datacenters with a capacity greater than 25 MW, the latest sign of growing opposition to massive server farms across the US.…