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The former Hollywood bad boy is nearly eight years sober and about to turn the big 6-0, so he's decided to confront his drug-fueled past with a new book and documentary

Samsung has finally launched a TV featuring the company's new Micro RGB backlight technology. From a report: The 115-inch TV is first launching in South Korea for over $32,000, according to SamMobile, but Samsung says it's coming to the US next, followed by a wider global rollout with more size options. Samsung's Micro RGB technology is being positioned as an upgrade to Mini LED backlights that employ an array of tiny white or blue LEDs behind a TV's LCD panel. Micro RGB backlights instead use an ultra-fine pattern of individually controlled red, green and blue LEDs that are each less than than 100um in size. The new backlight is powered by Samsung's Micro RGB AI engine, which the company says "analyzes each frame in real time and automatically optimizes color output for a more lifelike and immersive picture." The technology allows for improved color accuracy and better contrast by precisely controlling the intensity of the individual LEDs, and Samsung says it can even boost the color in dull scenes, making them appear more vivid and immersive.

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Speaking metaphorically, the blast area of a datacenter should only be so large, for mechanical as well as technical reasons, in order to mitigate the risk of a failure taking out too many machines. …

Broadcom Stretches Switching Across Datacenters With Jericho 4 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Atomic Kitten star is returning to the E4 show after her split from her fiancé Ryan Mahoney at the end of last year.

The Greek Royal Family celebrated Prince Achileas-Andreas' 25th birthday on Tuesday, with his parents and siblings sharing touching messages on social media.

The woman, in her 20s, is understood to have been 'taken against her will' at the entertainment complex in Blackburn, Lancashire.

The self-employed electrician, who had been working on a roof in Shoeburyness when he fell, suffered traumatic injuries to his head and torso and died at the scene.

The 43-year-old singer was previously married to the former talent manager from 2013 until their divorce was finalized in 2022. The pair also welcomed two children.

Hashem Abedi, 28, was ordered to serve a record 55-year minimum term for helping his suicide bomber brother Salman murder 22 people, many of them children, at the Manchester Arena in 2017.

Redmond let dev code loose in production Windows, leading to the bug

Microsoft is having difficulty keeping development code out of the Windows event log after another message that users are advised to ignore turned up in the... event log.…

Adela Magaña, 53, was sitting on a bench at Golf N' Stuff in Ventura County, California when a 40-foot palm tree fell on top of her.

A new fossil discovery is adding a lost species to the picture of human evolution, rewriting the history of a famous skeleton.

The teenage killer of 80-year-old dog walker Bhim Kohli, who was savagely beaten to death, will not have his sentence for manslaughter changed, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The man's remains were found by horrified workers at Skelton Skips, in Knowsthorpe Way, Leeds in October 2022. Police sources say officers are still probing whether it was a possible gangland hit.

The first festival in 2024 saw a very busy beer garden indeed!

Jean Dye, 77, was at the crucial stage of the procedure when the electricity went down - meaning doctors had to delay the process as they couldn't see vital X rays.

Young listeners are accelerating audio and video consumption, with an Economist/YouGov poll finding 31% of Americans aged 18-29 using faster-than-1x playback versus 8% among those 45 and older, as Apple, Spotify, newspapers' audio, Netflix, and YouTube expand speed controls, including YouTube's 4x for premium users. YouTube reports more than 900 years saved per day from fast playback; a meta-analysis led by University of Waterloo researchers finds minimal test-score change up to 1.5x and declines near or past 2x.

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Figures from admissions body Ucas show almost 5,000 applicants chose each option this year, instead of ticking 'male' or 'female'.

How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)

hands on  Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked or type their URLs in through muscle memory, you probably still spend a lot of time looking for info on Google. Now, you can exert some control over which publishers appear in your results for news stories.…

In her new memoir, Frankly, Nicola Sturgeon laughs off the baseless online rumours that she conducted some kind of lesbian affair with France 's ex-ambassador to the UK, Catherine Colonna.