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The nominations for the 2025 Inside Soap Awards have been revealed, with one category set to make a surprise return after six years away.

President Donald Trump hammered Japan and South Korea for running up a trade imbalance with the U.S., declaring both countries will be slapped with a new 25 percent tariff starting August 1.

Joe Rogan has come to a mind-bending conclusion about life, fearing that humanity has misinterpreted what reality really is.

The musical artist, 37, who shares three children with the Tesla founder, said that she had been intentionally avoiding social media because of the influence left by her former lover.

Sharon Williams is 61 but often mistaken for being in her 40s. The mother-of-three, from the UK and now living in Sydney, credits her remarkably youthful appearance to three non-negotiables.

Waymo has launched new "road trips" to Philadelphia and New York City, "signaling the Alphabet-owned company's interest in expanding into Northeastern cities," reports TechCrunch. While these trips don't guarantee commercial launches, they follow a pattern that previously led to deployments in cities like Los Angeles. Other road trips this year are planned for Houston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego, and San Antonio. From the report: Typically, the trips involve sending a small fleet of human-driven vehicles equipped with Waymo's autonomous driving system to map out the new city. Then Waymo tests the vehicles autonomously, though still with a human behind the wheel, before taking any data and learnings back to its engineers to improve the AI driver's performance. In some cases, these road trips have led to commercial launches. In 2023, the company made a road trip to Santa Monica, a city in Los Angeles County. The company now operates a commercial service in Los Angeles, including Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and Hollywood. For its Philadelphia trip, Waymo plans to place vehicles in the most complex parts of the city, including downtown and freeways, according to a spokesperson. She noted folks will see Waymo vehicles driving "at all hours throughout various Philadelphia neighborhoods, from North Central to Eastwick, University City, and as far east as the Delaware River." In NYC, Waymo will drive its cars manually in Manhattan just north of Central Park down to The Battery and parts of Downtown Brooklyn. The company will also map parts of Jersey City and Hoboken in New Jersey. Waymo applied last month for a permit to test its AVs in New York City with a human behind the wheel. The company has not yet received approval.

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Julie Peterson came second in a women's national championship race in Wisconsin last week after being beaten by Kate 'KJ' Phillips, who was born a biological male.

Cristiano Ronaldo has been pictured for the first time since opting not to attend the funeral of Diogo Jota, who tragically passed away following a traffic accident last week.

Experts are warning that hundreds of dormant volcanoes around the world will likely become more active and erupt thanks to climate change .

More than 40 years ago the Wightwick Hall steam locomotive was saved from a scrapyard. 

The 1500th performance of Cabaret boasted one of the most unlikely guest lists in recent years, with Hollywood heavyweights mingling with British TV icons at the famous Kit Kat Club.

TalkTV presenter James Whale took to social media on Sunday to share an emotional update about his terminal cancer battle - admitting that he 'hasn't got much longer'.

Jack Dorsey has launched Bitchat, a decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that uses Bluetooth mesh networks for encrypted, ephemeral chats without requiring accounts, servers, or internet access. The beta version is live on TestFlight, with a full white paper available on GitHub. CNBC reports: In a post on X Sunday, Dorsey called it a personal experiment in "bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things." Bitchat enables ephemeral, encrypted communication between nearby devices. As users move through physical space, their phones form local Bluetooth clusters and pass messages from device to device, allowing them to reach peers beyond standard range -- even without Wi-Fi or cell service. Certain "bridge" devices connect overlapping clusters, expanding the mesh across greater distances. Messages are stored only on device, disappear by default and never touch centralized infrastructure -- echoing Dorsey's long-running push for privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant communication. Like the Bluetooth-based apps used during Hong Kong's 2019 protests, Bitchat is designed to keep working even when the internet is blocked, offering a censorship-resistant way to stay connected during outages, shutdowns or surveillance. The app also supports optional group chats, or "rooms," which can be named with hashtags and protected by passwords. It includes store and forward functionality to deliver messages to users who are temporarily offline. A future update will add WiFi Direct to increase speed and range, pushing Dorsey's vision for off-grid, user-owned communication even further.

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Cruz was seen vacationing in Athens, Greece , over the weekend after casting his vote on Trump's budget bill last week as d eadly floods struck the Texas Hill Country over the weekend.

Thousands of fans were held up by 'severe delays' yesterday with no service on the District Line between Parsons Green and Wimbledon.

The Diddy verdict is in-and it's sparking global controversy. Watch as Daily Mail reporters unpack the trial's most shocking moments and reveal why the outcome didn't surprise them

Recently separated couple Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have made the bizarre move of seemingly joining newlyweds on what many would consider their honeymoon.

At least 100 people were killed in the devastating Texas floods, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens are still missing. Here is what we know about those who lost their lives.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Epic Games, buoyed by the massive success of Fortnite, has spent the last few years throwing elbows in the mobile industry to get its app store on more phones. It scored an antitrust win against Google in late 2023, and the following year it went after Samsung for deploying "Auto Blocker" on its Android phones, which would make it harder for users to install the Epic Games Store. Now, the parties have settled the case just days before Samsung will unveil its latest phones. The Epic Store drama began several years ago when the company defied Google and Apple rules about accepting outside payments in the mega-popular Fortnite. Both stores pulled the app, and Epic sued. Apple emerged victorious, with Fortnite only returning to the iPhone recently. Google, however, lost the case after Epic showed it worked behind the scenes to stymie the development of app stores like Epic's. Google is still working to avoid penalties in that long-running case, but Epic thought it smelled a conspiracy last year. It filed a similar lawsuit against Samsung, accusing it of implementing a feature to block third-party app stores. The issue comes down to the addition of a feature to Samsung phones called Auto Blocker, which is similar to Google's new Advanced Protection in Android 16. It protects against attacks over USB, disables link previews, and scans apps more often for malicious activity. Most importantly, it blocks app sideloading. Without sideloading, there's no way to install the Epic Games Store or any of the content inside it. Auto Blocker is enabled by default on Samsung phones, but users can opt out during setup. Epic claimed in its suit that the sudden inclusion of this feature was a sign that Google was working with Samsung to stand in the way of alternative app stores again. Epic has apparently gotten what it wanted from Samsung -- CEO Tim Sweeney has announced that Epic is dropping the case in light of a new settlement. Sweeney said Samsung "will address Epic's concerns," without elaborating on the details. Samsung may stop making Auto Blocker the default or create a whitelist of apps, like the Epic Games Store, that can bypass Auto Blocker. Another possibility is that Epic and select third-party stores are granted special access while Auto Blocker remains on for others, balancing security and openness. A "more interesting outcome," according to Ars, would be for Samsung to pre-install the Epic Games Store on its new phones.

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Criminology professor Dr Xanthé Mallett delivered a scathing assessment of Erin Patterson 's character after the Australian mother-of-two was found guilty of mass murder.