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Overall, 56 per cent of those surveyed admit that they completely forget about the healthy food they've bought at the supermarket.

ALISON BOSHOFF: The flamboyant interior designer was involved in a freak accident during filming in Costa Rica last year when he jumped off a boat.

The Traitors fans said the BBC show must be 'rigged' as Leanne has unbelievable luck during the latest challenge on Thursday night's show after previously winning a shield three times.

Epic Games is expanding its mobile app store to include nearly 20 third-party games on Android and EU iOS, launching a free games program, and temporarily covering Apple's Core Technology Fee for participating developers to counter platform restrictions. "Our aim here isn't just to launch a bunch of different stores in different places, but to build a single, cross-platform store in which, within the era of multi-platform games, if you buy a game or digital items in one place, you have the ability to own them everywhere," Epic CEO Tim Sweeney told reporters during a press briefing. The Verge reports: Under the program, Epic will offer new free games in the store each month before eventually switching to a weekly schedule. However, the games aren't actually in the store yet -- Epic said on Thursday that it "ran into a few bugs that we're working through now" and "we'll provide an update once the games are live and ready to play!" To sweeten the deal for developers that participate in the free games program on iOS, Epic will help defray the cost of using third-party marketplaces. For one year, it will pay these developers' Core Technology Fee (CTF): a 50 euro cent fee levied on every install of an iOS app that uses third-party stores after it exceeds 1 million annual downloads. (Apple gives developers with less than 10 million euros in global revenue a three-year on-ramp.) [...] Epic writes in its blog post that covering the fee "is not financially viable for every third party app store or for Epic long term, but we'll do it while the European Commission investigates Apple's non-compliance with the law."

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A lost Tina Turner track has been unearthed from the vaults after four decades - but critics say it is simply not The Best.

TOM UTLEY: Do you realise that every time you eat at your local pub, you are subsidising the dinner-party-going classes?

Cocaine abuser Michael Porchetta, 28, might never be released after he brutally stabbed Aimee Cannon to death at her home in West Calder, West Lothian, on May 7, 2022.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Chances are, if pocket calculators were around by the time you went to school, you've always relied on machines for adding up.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The King's younger brother has failed to display green fingers with the flowers, shrubbery and woodland.

Economic and technical forces have a kind of momentum that keeps them growing even as any new technology goes through its inevitable hype cycle from innovation to inflated expectations to disillusionment to deployment into productivity. …

GenAI Boom: Datacenter Spending Forecast Raised Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Dramatic footage of a four-year-old boy describing how he witnessed the brutal murder of a schoolgirl is to be shown in a new TV documentary.

The Linux 6.14 kernel now maps out support for Microsoft's "Copilot" key "so that user-space software can determine the behavior for handling that key's action on the Linux desktop," writes Phoronix's Michael Larabel. From the report: A change made to the atkbd keyboard driver on Linux now maps the F23 key to support the default copilot shortcut action. The patch authored by Lenovo engineer Mark Pearson explains [...]. Now it's up to the Linux desktop environments for determining what to do if the new Copilot key is pressed. The patch was part of the input updates now merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel.

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The campmates always bank an enviable sum to face the gruelling jungle conditions, and the salaries of this year's 12 famous faces have been revealed.

Brave scientists on a 'hurricane hunting' plane that is used to study the world's most lethal tempests are preparing to fly into Storm Eowyn as it roars towards Britain.

Deer in Georgia are at risk of contracting a neurological disease with a 100 percent mortality rate. One deer in southern Georgia was found to have the infectious pathogen in its system.

The wife of a firefighter who died in a blaze at Jenners has spoken of the 'traumatic' moment she had to break the news to their twin sons.

A Captain Cook statue in Sydney has been covered in red paint and damaged as tensions rise ahead of Australia Day.

When entrepreneur Yana Smaglo, was forced to flee her country two years ago following Russia 's invasion, she left with just the clothes on her back, a laptop, and just enough cash to invest.

Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime?

OpenAI on Thursday launched a human-directed AI agent called Operator that can use a web browser by itself to accomplish various online tasks, or at least try to do so.…

A Hollywood intimacy coordinator has weighed in on the bombshell video of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni on The Ends It With Us set - amid their lawsuits.