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Microsoft is testing talking avatars for Copilot to see if users feel more at ease chatting with a face instead of just a text box. Our US Editor tried them out, only to find the digital stare was more creepy than comforting.…

Three months ago, I was at a garage inspecting a Ford Fiesta with my father. It was the perfect first car for an 18-year-old like me.

India has demanded 'immediate action' after a statue of Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi was vandalised in central London.

Derrick Alling, 39, allegedly killed his mother, 60-year-old Carolyn 'Alesia' Alling, at her home in Ozark, Missouri, on Thursday.

Rochelle and her husband Marvin Humes have reportedly spent £40,000 on guard dogs after a spate of burglaries targeting fellow celebrity homeowners.

An investigation in March exposed abusive practices at several supported-living facilities run by Lifeways, one of the UK's largest private care companies.

Carson Ryan, 17, of Washington died from his injuries after a member of his hunting party mistakenly shot him on Saturday in a rural area of Brighton.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to consider whether to lift the long-standing prohibition on a merger between any of the largest four broadcast networks and to consider relaxing other media ownership rules. The FCC said it would consider public comments before deciding whether to reverse the rule that bars a merger among the "Big Four" networks: NBC, owned by Comcast, Walt Disney Co's ABC, Paramount Skydance's CBS or Fox. The FCC also said it was seeking public comment on whether to eliminate or revise a rule that limits a single entity from owning more than two of the four largest television stations in the same local market and a rule that limits the total number of local radio stations that may be owned in a single market. Previously, the FCC noted that a version of the rule barring dual ownership of networks has existed since the 1940s. A 2018 media ownership review concluded the bar should be upheld "because it advances the agency's core policy objectives of competition and localism. "We intend to take a fresh approach to competition by examining the broader media marketplace, rather than treating broadcast radio and television as isolated markets," FCC Chair Brendan Carr said. "If we determine that any rule no longer serves the public interest, we will fulfill our statutory duty to modify or eliminate those rules."

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Two young cousins and a 15 year-old girl were lured into a van, tortured and killed in a video livestreamed to a warped audience.

Christian Horner is weighing-up a return to Formula One but has been warned that one move simply 'won't work'.  Horner was given a massive £80million payoff.

The body of Penelope Chandrie was found at her home in west London on December 17, 2023, after her mother called a funeral director and told them her daughter had died.

A respected Harvard astrophysicist believes one of the most famous signals ever sent to Earth could have been sent by the object rapidly approaching our planet.

Stopping the spread isn't the same as stopping attacks, period

Google on Tuesday rolled out a new AI tool in Drive for desktop that it says will pause syncing to limit ransomware damage, but it won't stop attacks outright.…

Forecasters warned residents in the affected areas to expect 'pretty incredible rainfall totals' with up to 10 inches set to accumulate on the highest ground between tomorrow and Friday.

What’s the difference between Meta Platforms and OpenAI? The big one – and perhaps the most important one in the long run – is that when Meta Platforms does a deal with neocloud CoreWeave, it actually has a revenue stream from its advertising on various Web properties that it can pump back into AI investments while OpenAI is still burning money much faster than it is making it. …

Get Your Money For Nothing, Chips Definitely Not For Free was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The 32-year-old victim said she was 'shocked' and 'froze' when Stuart Kennedy (pictured) - dressed as a firefighter - burst into the party at a four-star hotel resort in Perthshire, Scotland.

The singer, 24, was 'carried off stage' by staff during her performance at a festival in New York over the weekend, but later reassured her followers that she was fine.

"sfw" stands for Socket Firewall, but perhaps also "safe for work."

Software security biz Socket has released a free command line tool to defend developers against supply chain attacks.…

There's clearly a few more bumps in the road to navigate before peace breaks out once again in the City of Dreaming Spires.

The 29-year-old software engineer from Belfast , who has won over viewers with his quirky sourdough bakes, shared the news on Monday.