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An Aussie mum who tragically lost her baby at just five-days-old has warned that refusing to get simple tests in the first stages of pregnancy could mean other mothers suffer the same heartache.

According to The Verge, Sonos has abandoned its plans to release a streaming video player this year. From the report: The news was announced by the company's leadership during an all-hands call today. That product, codenamed Pinewood, was set to be Sonos' next major hardware launch. It was already deep into development and has spent months in beta testing. But now the team behind it will be reassigned to other projects as interim CEO Tom Conrad reprioritizes the company's future roadmap and continues what he hopes will be a turnaround from a bruising 2024. He told employees that a push into video from Sonos is off the table "for now." [...] Pinewood was designed to offer many of the same streaming video apps as other devices on the market along with deep universal search and content aggregation. But as I reported last month, Sonos also intended for it to double as an HDMI switcher and support passthrough functionality for gaming consoles, 4K Blu-ray players, and more. The box was also set to allow new configurations of surround sound systems using Sonos' many speakers.

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Nicola Sturgeon is Alex Salmond 's mistake, for which he paid a heavy price - and so has Scottish political life, the SNP , the independence movement, and women's rights.

Not so much thrown under a bus as under an unwanted electric car

Elon Musk is trying yet again to get his $56 billion Tesla pay package reinstated with a fresh appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. …

Jonathan Sacerdoti had been due to talk about journalism and antisemitism at UWC Atlantic in South Wales last Sunday.

DAILYMAIL.COM LIVE BLOG: Donald Trump is giving Russia a stern but strange message as a 30-day ceasefire deal with Ukraine is being worked out as he meets with Ireland's Taoiseach.

The footage shows a massive explosion as the Portuguese-flagged Solong ploughs into the anchored Stena Immaculate.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the EFF: EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. Mark didn't set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications technician for AT&T, most of that in San Francisco. But he always had a strong sense of right and wrong and a commitment to privacy. When the New York Times reported in late 2005 that the NSA was engaging in spying inside the U.S., Mark realized that he had witnessed how it was happening. He also realized that the President was not telling Americans the truth about the program. And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF's front door in early 2006 with a simple question: "Do you folks care about privacy?" We did. And what Mark told us changed everything. Through his work, Mark had learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) had installed a secret, secure room at AT&T's central office in San Francisco, called Room 641A. Mark was assigned to connect circuits carrying Internet data to optical "splitters" that sat just outside of the secret NSA room but were hardwired into it. Those splitters -- as well as similar ones in cities around the U.S. -- made a copy of all data going through those circuits and delivered it into the secret room. Mark not only saw how it works, he had the documents to prove it. He brought us over a hundred pages of authenticated AT&T schematic diagrams and tables. Mark also shared this information with major media outlets, numerous Congressional staffers, and at least two senators personally. One, Senator Chris Dodd, took the floor of the Senate to acknowledge Mark as the great American hero he was.

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Firefox maker: Looming antitrust inferno could burn us, too

Mozilla, which in 2023 received about 75 percent of its revenue from royalties paid by Google and other search providers for search engine usage in Firefox, worries that the US Justice Department's proposed ban on the very same Google Search payments would be rather harmful.…

She announced the news with an Instagram post on Wednesday as she shared a first look at her newborn and revealed her unusual name.

Mexican influencer Valeria Mireles, who was known as 'Miss Rodeo,' has died at the age of 20.

The Prime Minister will say that no person's 'substantive time' should be spent on a task where technology can 'do it better, quicker and to the same high quality and standard'.

New submitter CInder123 shares a report from TechSpot: Apple is undertaking one of the most significant software overhauls in its history, aiming to revamp the user interface across iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. This ambitious update, set for release later this year, will fundamentally transform the look and feel of Apple's operating systems, enhancing consistency and the user experience. The updates are part of iOS 19 and iPadOS 19, codenamed "Luck," and macOS 16, dubbed "Cheer," according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. He cited sources who requested anonymity since the project has yet to be officially announced. These major upgrades will introduce a new design language while simplifying navigation and controls. Apple's push for consistency across platforms aims to create a seamless user experience when switching between devices. Currently, applications, icons, and window styles vary significantly across macOS, iOS, and visionOS, leading to a disjointed experience.

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President Donald Trump has threatened 'devastating' consequences for Russia if Vladimir Putin does not agree to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine.

Anthony Pierce, 84, who retired as Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in 2008, took advantage of the teenager playing the church organ to prey on him.

A PM active in international diplomacy may feel, on re-entering the Commons, that the national legislature is no longer sufficient for his grandeur.

The rugby player, 39, was seen holding hands with the glamorous reality starlet, who boasts a string of famous exes, as they attended Cheltenham Festival on Wednesday.

Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives

Column  My decade-old and very well-travelled 13" MacBook Pro finally died, and I hoped my new-ish M2 iPad Pro could replace it.…

The brand has boldly described the finished product as 'a new era of super stroller' - but not everyone was impressed.

Baldoni's team plans to depose a major Hollywood star ahead of a possible trial, with sources telling DailyMail.com that his team want to get 'the full scope of Reynolds' conduct'.