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Cristiano Ronaldo's fiancée Georgina Rodriguez shared a video of her partner's eldest son Ronaldo Jr's very lavish 16th birthday party she threw this weekend.

Birgitte beamed lovingly at her husband, the Duke of Gloucester in a brand-new portrait captured in the garden at Buckingham Palace to mark her 80th birthday.

Francesca Valentino, 46, was killed after the fire tore apart The Viva Dominicus Bayahibe resort in La Altagracia, Dominican Republic, on Friday.

Dr Alex George has revealed the happy news that he is engaged. Taking to Instagram on Saturday, he shared a carousel of pictures from his sunset proposal.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry). But this week SMPTE "announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-based broadcast workflows, is now freely available to anyone in the global media technology community," reports the filmmaking news site CineD, arguing it's "one of the more meaningful structural shifts we have seen from a standards body in years" that could "reshape how smaller developers and educators engage with professional media technology." The move covers all published Standards, Recommended Practices, Engineering Guidelines and Registered Disclosure Documents, plus every future release, ending a long-standing model in which individual documents often sold for well over $100 each. For more than a century, SMPTE Standards have quietly governed how images and sound move through the production chain. If you have ever recorded timecode in the HH:MM:SS:FF format, routed a signal over 3G-SDI, or built a facility around the ST 2110 suite for media over IP, you have relied on SMPTE specifications, whether you knew it or not... Until now, accessing the actual text of those documents usually meant paying per file, a barrier that this announcement removes entirely... The latest releases are available through the Recently Published Documents page on the SMPTE website, with the complete archive reachable through the SMPTE Standards Library... There is also a practical, behind-the-scenes story here. The open-access move is part of a broader modernization of how SMPTE develops and publishes Standards. Recent initiatives include adopting GitHub-based workflows for version control, issue tracking and automation, transitioning to structured HTML-based authoring, and implementing an integrated publishing pipeline that streamlines document creation, review, validation and release... The most consequential beneficiaries are arguably not the large members already inside the system, but the developers, integrators, educators and manufacturers who previously worked around the paywall... The practical upshot is that developers and emerging markets can build from accurate primary specifications rather than secondhand sources, which matters enormously when a single misread tolerance or metadata field can break compatibility down the line. This also fits a wider pattern of the industry moving toward openness. We have previously covered moments like GoPro's decision to make its CineForm codec open source and release the SDK, a codec that SMPTE itself standardized in 2015 as an open standard for acquisition and post production. Lowering the cost of knowledge tends to widen the pool of people who can contribute to it, and a freely readable standards library is a significant step in that direction for an organization that has historically sat behind a per-document fee. "This was a decision we did not make lightly," says SMPTE President Rich Welsh. But "For 110 years, SMPTE has evolved alongside the media technology industry, helping to drive change and innovation — and we're not stopping now." "Our industry is confronting transformative shifts, from IP-based workflows to AI authenticity and content provenance, and we find ourselves at another inflection point. We listened to our Members, Partners and the global Standards community, and the answer was clear: Interoperability is essential to the future of media. Now is the time to open the gates and ensure the next generation of media technology is built on a stronger, more accessible foundation." Thanks to innocent_white_lamb (Slashdot reader #151,825) for sharing the news.

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The former Top Grear presenter was seen walking along with the mystery woman near his new home in Abergavenny following his divorce from former wife Mindy.

Gary Myers is joining the search for his mother, Kathy, on the Canary Island where she owns a property and spends half of the year living with her husband Steve.

Strictly pro Neil Jones has reportedly banned his family from attending his wedding to ex Love Islander Chyna Mills later this month amid the ongoing family feud with his mother.

Her looks were so astonishing Hollywood came calling and she was cast in not just one but two James Bond movies. And she even had a tiny cameo in a third 007 outing in the 1980s.

Councillors have called for an investigation into whether the council should have done more sooner about the Save A Paw rescue centre where the bodies of many animals were found by police

Witham based charity, Little Wings of Hope is urging families to share their experiences of bereavement care at Colchester Hospital.

Staff at Bonita Pasta Club in Weymouth, Dorset, were left baffled after finding the bright yellow ticket attached to the orange motorbike.

Harry, 32, kicked off his 12-night run at Wembley last Friday for his Together, Together tour and videos of the moment have been going viral on social media.

Animal cafés are a major hit in the UK for coffee and pet lovers - though critics warn that constant customer interaction and poor oversight could lead to unnecessary stress and declining animal welfare.