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While fans still wait news on who the next actor to play British super-spy James Bond will be, Amazon MGM Studios has found the film's director.

Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app

A Japanese company called Rabo that makes a smart collar for cats and uses the motto “Because nine lives are never enough” has started using AI to monitor feline stress levels.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Swarms of tiny robots, each no larger than a speck of dust, could be deployed to cure stubborn infected sinuses before being blown out through the nose into a tissue, researchers have claimed. The micro-robots are a fraction of the width of a human hair and have been inserted successfully into animal sinuses in pre-clinical trials by researchers at universities in China and Hong Kong. Swarms are injected into the sinus cavity via a duct threaded through the nostril and guided to their target by electromagnetism, where they can be made to heat up and catalyze chemical reactions to wipe out bacterial infections. There are hopes the precisely targeted technology could eventually reduce reliance on antibiotics and other generalized medicines. [...] The latest breakthrough, based on animal rather than human trials, involves magnetic particles "doped" with copper atoms which clinicians insert with a catheter before guiding to their target under a magnetic field. The swarms can be heated up by reacting to light from an optical fibre that is also inserted into the body as part of the therapy. This allows the micro-robots to loosen up and penetrate viscous pus that forms a barrier to the infection site. The light source also prompts the micro-robots to disrupt bacterial cell walls and release reactive oxygen species that kill the bacteria. The study, published in Nature Robotics, showed the robots were capable of eradicating bacteria from pig sinuses and could clear infections in live rabbits with "no obvious tissue damage." The researchers have produced a model of how the technology could work on a human being, with the robot swarms being deployed in operating theatre conditions, allowing doctors to see their progress by using X-rays. Future applications could include tackling bacterial infections of the respiratory tract, stomach, intestine, bladder and urethra, they suggested. "Our proposed micro-robotic therapeutic platform offers the advantages of non-invasiveness, minimal resistance, and drug-free intervention," they said.

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HARDMAN: For more than three hours, on a freezing February night, the 12 men from the Special Air Service had been lying behind a low, threadbare bit of hedge near the village of Clonoe

The world is waiting for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez to tie the knot in Venice, Italy this weekend, but many are also curious to know if they have a prenup agreement in place.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has kept a steady drumbeat for much of the year as it looks to position itself as the go-to IT hardware and software vendor for the rapidly expanding AI market, which has grown from chatbots to AI agents in under three years. …

HPE Throws Everything At AI – And AI At Everything was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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Intel is shuttering its automotive efforts and laying off the bulk of the team responsible.…

The younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, was a vision in white as she showed off her new toned physique in a summery co-ord set at the London party on Wednesday, June 25.

Second lady Usha Vance sat down for her first on-air interview since Vice President J.D. Vance was sworn-in in January and discussed whether the couple might have more kids.

Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister will take the stand as a criminal defendant, over charges of accepting tens of thousands of dollars' worth of gifts.

In the latest sign of expansion of the 'nanny state', the Government confirmed it is looking at introducing 'partial restrictions' on booze ads among measures in its 10-year health plan.

A British woman stranded in Israel said she has still not heard from the Government about chartered evacuation flights - despite registering and paying hundreds of pounds last week.

New pictures have emerged of Erik Menendez accepting a bachelor's degree from behind bars with top academic honors.

Warning upsetting content: Ernest Frost, 71, and his 68-year-old wife Jean were living in a property which had the worst smell encountered by a RSPCA inspector in eight years.

The wedding will be attended by more than 200 A-list guests including Ivanka Trump, Leonardo Di Caprio, Oprah Winfrey and Katie Perry, who are currently arriving for the first party

Former Newcastle United manager Kevin Keegan, 74, as well as his next door neighbours were embroiled in a battle with fellow locals who opposed the 'wholesale' cull of the 60ft tall sycamore trees.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered up millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model called Llama. San Francisco federal Judge Vince Chhabria ruled Wednesday that Meta's decision to use the books for training is protected under copyright law's fair use defense, but he cautioned that his opinion is more a reflection on the authors' failure to litigate the case effectively. "This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful," Chhabria said.

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Rita Ora recently revealed that she proposed to her husband, Taika Waititi, during a romantic trip to Palm Springs - turning tradition on its head by getting down on one knee herself. 

On Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz 's wedding day an incident involving her billionaire father Nelson so horrified the groom's family that it as good as ended relations between the two sides