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People who don't vote are significantly more likely to die earlier than their voting peers-with experts suggesting voting behaviour is a stronger determinant of health than education.

Detectives have made a major breakthrough in the mystery death of a beloved Melbourne mother. 

Google's new "Project Suncatcher" aims to launch Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) into space, creating a solar-powered, satellite-based AI network capable of scaling machine learning beyond Earth's limits. Google says a "solar panel can be up to 8 times more productive than on earth" for near-continuous power using a "dawn-dusk sun-synchronous low earth orbit" that reduces the need for batteries and other power generation. 9to5Google reports: These satellites would connect via free-space optical links, with large-scale ML workloads "distributing tasks across numerous accelerators with high-bandwidth, low-latency connections." To match data centers on Earth, the connection between satellites would have to be tens of terabits per second, and they'd have to fly in "very close formation (kilometers or less)." Google has already conducted radiation testing on TPUs (Trillium, v6e), with "promising" results: "While the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) subsystems were the most sensitive component, they only began showing irregularities after a cumulative dose of 2 krad(Si) -- nearly three times the expected (shielded) five year mission dose of 750 rad(Si). No hard failures were attributable to TID up to the maximum tested dose of 15 krad(Si) on a single chip, indicating that Trillium TPUs are surprisingly radiation-hard for space applications." Finally, Google believes that launch costs will "fall to less than $200/kg by the mid-2030s." At that point, the "cost of launching and operating a space-based data center could become roughly comparable to the reported energy costs of an equivalent terrestrial data center on a per-kilowatt/year basis."

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Some 45.8 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) were classed as disabled last year - up by 24.3 percentage points in a decade.

The 38-year-old ex-Egypt defender admitted he was always trying to cover up his baldness through wearing caps. Now he has more confidence then ever.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it was made aware of a suspicious vehicle at Manchester Airport at around 11.40pm on October 30.

Watch salesman Oliver White, 27, killed himself after being accused of 'not putting up enough of a fight' against robbers who grabbed luxury watches worth £1.1million from his shop, a court heard.

Heather Mills has revealed she only dates carnivores so she can convert them to veganism before dumping them and moving on to the next man.

Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit

Google on Tuesday announced a new moonshot – launching constellations of solar-powered satellites packed to the gills with its home-grown tensor processing units (TPUs) to form orbital AI datacenters.…

A Premier League footballer allegedly threatened at gunpoint in a dramatic street attack by a football agent has been named.

The actress' nepo daughter was at the CFDA Awards on Monday where she wore a men's suit with a crisp white shirt. Her hair was worn short.

The couple, who have been together since 2012,, looked besotted with each other as they attended the event on Monday at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Today, Samsung provided details about the next version of the HDR10 format, which introduces six new features. Among HDR10+ Advanced's most interesting features is HDR10+ Intelligent FRC (frame rate conversion), which is supposed to improve motion smoothing. A TV using motion smoothing analyzes each video frame and tries to determine what additional frames would look like if the video were playing at a frame rate that matched the TV's refresh rate. The TV then inserts those frames into the video. A 60Hz TV with motion smoothing on, for example, would attempt to remove judder from a 24p film by inserting frames so that the video plays as if it were shot at 60p. For some, this appears normal and can make motion, especially camera panning or zooming, look smoother. However, others will report movies and shows that look more like soap operas, or as if they were shot on higher-speed video cameras instead of film cameras. Critics, including some big names in Hollywood, argue that motion smoothing looks unnatural and deviates from the creator's intended vision. Intelligent FRC takes a more nuanced approach to motion smoothing by letting content creators dictate the level of motion smoothing used in each scene, Forbes reported. The feature is also designed to adjust the strength of motion interpolation based on ambient lighting.

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Jeremy Rouse admitted to police that once he noticed his son was missing he kept driving miles away because he didn't want to damage his Uber Eats rating.

DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them

If you're filing an immigration form - or helping someone who is - the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your cheek, and scan your face. The US Department of Homeland Security wants to greatly expand biometric data collection for immigration applications, covering immigrants and even some US citizens tied to those cases.…

My husband and I, both aged 78, booked an Avis hire car for our holiday. Two days before we travelled, I was asked to hand over my credit card number.

Here, three women who say they did everything 'right' share what went wrong that means they're facing financial ­insecurity in their older age.

The former president spoke at a rally for New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill, surprising the crowd by engaging in a jovial exchange with a heckling supporter.

The pre-Budget speech by Chancellor Rachel Reeves was a scary listen, not in terms of what was said but the whopping elephant in the room.

This is the moment a woman was kicked off a flight after demanding to be seated next to her boyfriend.