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Six in the city: Manchester

How much do you really need to spend on the pastel tailoring trend? With more than £1,800 between the cheapest and priciest blazer here, we'll let you decide

Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear shares a report from Interesting Engineering: A research team at Fudan University in Shanghai, China has built the fastest semiconductor storage device ever reported, a nonvolatile flash memory dubbed "PoX" that programs a single bit in 400 picoseconds (0.0000000004 s) -- roughly 25 billion operations per second. Conventional static and dynamic RAM (SRAM, DRAM) write data in 1-10 nanoseconds but lose everything when power is cut while current flash chips typically need micro to milliseconds per write -- far too slow for modern AI accelerators that shunt terabytes of parameters in real time. The Fudan group, led by Prof. Zhou Peng at the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Chips and Systems, re-engineered flash physics by replacing silicon channels with two dimensional Dirac graphene and exploiting its ballistic charge transport. Combining ultralow energy with picosecond write speeds could eliminate separate highspeed SRAM caches and remove the longstanding memory bottleneck in AI inference and training hardware, where data shuttling, not arithmetic, now dominates power budgets. The team [which is now scaling the cell architecture and pursuing arraylevel demonstrations] did not disclose endurance figures or fabrication yield, but the graphene channel suggests compatibility with existing 2Dmaterial processes that global fabs are already exploring. The result is published in the journal Nature.

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The award-winning spot was the work of some who has been has been called 'the most influential gardener of our time'

Katy Perry went to space for just three minutes and returned to a storm of wild conspiracy theories. Social media was flooded with bizarre that the mission was faked within minutes of the capsule landing.

Robbie Williams opened up with his fans about how he really struggles being recognised and asked for selfies when out and about. 

Hagerty has earmarked four segment-driving SUVs from the noughties it believes have the ingredients to go on to become modern classics. Would you snap one up?

The saga of Kanye West and Bianca Censori's tumultuous marriage appears to have taken a new twist.

Perched on a generous plot near the shores of Grafham Water, Perry Water Tower is a landmark and now stands as a blank canvas for residential use.

Jimmy Doherty is back with Shivi Ramoutar for ITV's Jimmy and Shivi's Farmhouse Breakfast, which is actually filmed on his family farm where they even have pet polar bears and monkeys

The former opinion page editor of the New York Times, James Bennet, grew emotional as he apologized to Sarah Palin in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday.

Hugh Jackman surprised fans when he unloaded on his longtime frenemy Ryan Reynolds on stage on Friday.

Beyoncé included a copy of her birth certificate in her Cowboy Carter Tour Book, and one detail has stunned her fans.

'Sarah Francesca Chianese, daughter of Dominic Chianese, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 15th,' the tribute read. 'She battled glioblastoma and was only 58 years old.'

Essex's best places to live have been revealed in a 2025 survey of England and Wales.

Essex is home to a number of top restaurants, plenty of which have recieved a number of top reviews from happy customers.

Pupils at Templewood Primary School in Welwyn Garden City have to wear coats in winter

According to TripAdvisor reviews, these five restaurants are among the town’s top-rated – each scoring 4.0 or higher from satisfied customers.

Essex's best places to live have been revealed in a 2025 survey of England and Wales.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: American composer Alvin Lucier was well-known for his experimental works that tested the boundaries of music and art. A longtime professor at Wesleyan University (before retiring in 2011), Alvin passed away in 2021 at the age of 90. However, that wasn't the end of his lifelong musical odyssey. Earlier this month, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, a new art installation titled Revivification used Lucier's "brain matter" -- hooked up to an electrode mesh connected to twenty large brass plates -- to create electrical signals that triggered a mallet to strike the varying plates, creating a kind of post-mortem musical piece. Conceptualized in collaboration with Lucier himself before his death, the artists solicited the help of researchers from Harvard Medical School, who grew a mini-brain from Lucier's white blood cells. The team created stem cells from these white blood cells, and due to their pluripotency, the cells developed into cerebral organoids somewhat similar to developing human brains. "At a time when generative AI is calling into question human agency, this project explores the challenges of locating creativity and artistic originality," the team behind Revivification told The Art Newspaper. "Revivification is an attempt to shine light on the sometimes dark possibilities of extending a person's presence beyond the seemed finality of death." "The central question we want people to ask is: could there be a filament of memory that persists through this biological transformation? Can Lucier's creative essence persist beyond his death?" the team said.

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