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Just imagine if I'd written a column attacking the opening of a Palestinian-owned bakery next door to a Jewish deli, alleging it was an 'act of heavy-handed high street aggression'.

Harrison Sullivan, 24, who is better known as HSTikkyTokky, posted a video on social media where he encouraged his followers to 'come here' because 'Dubai is the best city in the world'.

Think you have what it takes to be an interiors influencer? Some of these home truths may shock you...

Charles, 77, is visiting Aviva Studios in Manchester for a series of engagements to promote Creative Futures - free courses to inspire young people through the arts.

He kept thousands of indecent images, used hidden cameras to record people and was involved in "degrading" sexual offending

AI infrastructure company Nebius signed a deal to provide up to $27 billion in AI computing capacity to Meta over the next five years, including a guaranteed $12 billion purchase by 2027. Reuters reports: Under the agreement, Meta will also buy an additional $15 billion worth of capacity planned by Nebius over the coming five years if it is not sold to other customers, giving the contract a total value of up to $27 billion, Nebius said. The deal is the latest example of U.S. tech giants' efforts to supplement their own AI data-centre build-outs by locking in scarce GPU and power capacity from "neocloud" providers like Nebius. Nebius CEO Arkady Volozh said the latest Meta deal would help "accelerate the build-out and growth of our core AI cloud business." Further reading: Data Centers Overtake Offices In US Construction-Spending Shift

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Vibration plates feel like a relic of Nineties daytime TV. If you're of a certain age, you might remember the infomercials. Fast-forward a few decades and they're back - this time thanks to TikTok.

The pop star was joined by her fiancé Callum Turner and a string of big names at Elton's annual bash which raises money for his AIDS Foundation.

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a new scam targeting Gmail users that disguises itself as a Google account security tool designed to protect email accounts.

The former Spice Girl and ex-Red Bull Formula One team principal Christian Horner sparked local fury by building an oak-framed pergola and gazebo without planning applications.

After months of rain, prepare for a mini-heatwave with parts of the country set to be as warm as Madrid by midweek.

Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects

Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.…

Armed police surrounded two inner city high schools after receiving a 'live chat' threatening a weaponised attack on pupils and staff.

Samuel Leeds, 34 bought the castle in Bewdley, Worcestershire for £810,000 in 2018 because he thought it would be a 'fantastic development opportunity'.

It was third time unlucky for Timothee as he missed out yet again on the top prize, with Michael B Jordan - who became a last minute frontrunner - securing the award.

It might be the hottest ticket in town but it looks like there wasn't much food at the Oscars on Sunday night. 

While the co-stars were enjoying their night together, others putting on a wild display included Olivia Rodrigo , who was knocking back tequila during the party

Gabriela Teixeira, now 51, lived in a series of luxurious London properties with husband Abbas Moaven between their wedding in 2002 and his death 10 years later aged 45.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Spending on data center projects in the U.S. has exploded, surpassing offices for the first time at the end of last year. It's a trend Matt Kunz saw early on when Meta built a computing hub outside Columbus, Ohio. Other tech companies soon swarmed into the area, drawn by its stable economy, university talent pipeline and ample power, water and land, said Kunz, vice president and general manager at Turner Construction Co., the firm that led Meta's build-out. Since Meta broke ground in 2017, it's expanded its data center campus, and Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp. made plans to join it nearby. "When one shows up, almost all the other ones tend to follow," Kunz said. For Turner, a construction giant responsible for supertall office skyscrapers, sports stadiums and cultural venues around the globe, data centers are commanding more of its bandwidth. The company completed $9.4 billion of the projects last year, more than five times its 2020 total. Last month, Turner announced it was chosen as one of the contractors on a $10 billion data center for Meta in Indiana. Tech companies' needs for AI processing facilities have made data centers the latest darling of the real estate industry. The properties are figuring heavily into portfolios of major investors such as Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management and KKR, on a bet that long-term demand for computing power will continue to grow. At the same time, office development has slowed as cities across the U.S. contend with vacancies that have piled up since the Covid lockdowns. Construction spending for data centers has climbed steadily in recent years, while outlays for general office projects headed downward, U.S. Census data show. The two crossed paths in December, with roughly $3.57 billion spent on data centers that month, compared with $3.49 billion for offices, according to preliminary estimates. The shift is likely to continue and "may perpetuate itself even further as AI is utilized for automating day-to-day jobs," said Andy Cvengros, co-lead of U.S. data center markets for the brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. "It's going to directly impact the amount of office space people need." According to Christopher McFadden, senior vice president at Turner, more than a third of the company's backlog is now tied to data centers. "We're going to be building these at this scale for years to come," McFadden said. "There's a lot of wind in the sail."

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Residents of this area live all over - and aren't just focussed on the high street!