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Lopez is producing with former Vegas actress Molly Sims and not her ex-husband Ben Affleck whom she made Kiss Of The Spider Woman with.

smooth wombat writes: At one point in technology history, floppy disks reigned supreme. Files, pictures, games, everything was put on a floppy disk. But technology doesn't stand still and as time went on disks were replaced by CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, and now cloud storage. Despite these changes, floppy disks are still found in long forgotten corners of businesses or stuffed in boxs in the attic. What is on these disks is anyone's guess, but Cambridge University Library is racing against time to preserve the data. However, lack of hardware and software to read the disks, if they're readable at all, poses unique challenges. Some of the world's most treasured documents can be found deep in the archives of Cambridge University Library. There are letters from Sir Isaac Newton, notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin, rare Islamic texts and the Nash Papyrus -- fragments of a sheet from 200BC containing the Ten Commandments written in Hebrew. These rare, and often unique, manuscripts are safely stored in climate-controlled environments while staff tenderly care for them to prevent the delicate pages from crumbling and ink from flaking away. But when the library received 113 boxes of papers and mementoes from the office of physicist Stephen Hawking, it found itself with an unusual challenge. Tucked alongside the letters, photographs and thousands of pages relating to Hawking's work on theoretical physics, were items now not commonly seen in modern offices -- floppy disks. They were the result of Hawking's early adoption of the personal computer, which he was able to use despite having a form of motor neurone disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, thanks to modifications and software. Locked inside these disks could be all kinds of forgotten information or previously unknown insights into the scientists' life. The archivists' minds boggled. These disks are now part of a project at Cambridge University Library to rescue hidden knowledge trapped on floppy disks. The Future Nostalgia project reflects a larger trend in the information flooding into archives and libraries around the world.

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Scientists are warning that rates of a rare but highly deadly cancer are on the rise in the US, with cases climbing three times faster than other, more common, cancers.

The Gold radio presenter, 49, showed off her unique sense of style as she stepped out dressed head to toe in sequins to celebrate Global's Make Some Noise Day on Friday.

Khoury-Haq said that 60,000 small retailers and 150,000 jobs are at risk if reform is not delivered in England.

It's been a momentous week in the history of gold. The price reached a record $4,040 an ounce, and forecasts predict it could go further, too.

Having hit a record high of 9548 on Wednesday, the FTSE 100 index followed up a 0.4 per cent dip on Thursday with a slide of 0.9 per cent on Friday to end the week at 9427.47.

Business activity has been driven into the secretive world of private equity and credit. That is always going to be an opportunity for recklessness and finagling.

The group - which is headquartered in Liverpool's Liver Building (pictured) - is best known for its Princes Tuna and Napolina products.

Paloma Faith revealed she once suspected her best pal Alan Carr of accidentally leaking her breakup to the press in a resurfaced clip from her podcast on Friday. 

Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables and in turn making national emissions reduction targets harder to achieve. From a report: The centre-right Liberal National Party won last year's election in Queensland, a huge chunk of land in Australia's northeast where more than 60% of electricity comes from coal-fired plants that are mostly owned by the state.

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Written and directed by James Lucas (and executive-produced by Moss herself), the film focuses not on the finished painting but on its creation, and the pair's evolving relationship.

George Clooney showed he hasn't lost his mischievous side as he put on a cheeky display at the star-studded London premiere of his new Netflix film Jay Kelly on Friday evening.

AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product

OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…

Big Blue may have missed the boat on being one of the big AI model builders, but its IBM Research division has built its own enterprise-grade family of models and its server and research divisions have plenty of experience building accelerators and supercomputers. …

IBM Ships Homegrown “Spyre” Accelerators, Embraces Anthropic For AI Push was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

A new book, by Wall Street Journal reporter Saabira Chaudhuri, traces how disposability became a deliberate business strategy rather than an accidental consequence of modern commerce. The book, titled "Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic," emerged from her reporting on how plastic bottles transformed bottled water from an occasional restaurant treat into an everyday staple. Excerpts from a Bloomberg story: After World War II, the plastics industry made a conscious pivot. Lloyd Stouffer, an industry figure, openly said plastics should move from durable goods to disposables because companies make more money selling something a thousand times than once. The industry sold consumers on hygiene, convenience, modernity and easier household management. McDonald's dropped polystyrene clamshells in the late 1980s under activist pressure but simply swapped one single-use product for another. Paper containers still cannot be recycled well once food soaks in. The old diaper-service model disappeared. Companies collected, washed and returned cloth diapers like the milkman, but plastics helped kill that business model. Chaudhuri argues companies built their businesses on disposability and will not change unless regulation forces everyone to move together. Executives admit that if they launch a reusable product but competitors do not, they lose market share and face shareholder backlash. Packaging standardization would improve recycling economics. Colored plastics like red shampoo bottles cannot be recycled in a closed loop and are down-cycled into gray products like pipes.

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She has described the challenges of having a neurodiverse child

Shocking footage of the wreckage shows the vehicle sit with flashing lights amidst the debris at the burial ground in Ripple Road, Barking.

The undercover agent has been unmasked by the Mail as international paedophile Edward Gratwick, 68.

Nella, 28, will be joined by online star Harry Pinero, 34, in episode Find The Foreigner, which will launch on the broadcaster's YouTube channel this weekend.