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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are proving just how in sync they are as newlyweds - stepping out in near-identical outfits during a Paris getaway barely three months after their wedding.

Talk of sweeping property tax hikes in the Budget has paralysed the homes market, and those trying to sell homes might agree. Here are tips for sellers for how NOT get ripped off...

In the wake of the Heaton Park atrocity, the Prime Minister tried to give Britain's Jews the reassurance they were anxiously seeking, writes DAN HODGES. But it was an empty promise.

THIRTEEN individuals have been jailed in Essex this month.

The cafe has a celebrity seal of approval

PLANS for a two-bedroom bungalow in Braintree have been refused by the council.

Essex is home to a number of quaint venues with open fires, wooden beams and historic sites

THIRTEEN individuals have been jailed in Essex this month.

Braintree Council has launched a series of business briefings in partnership with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

Are we in fact at war with Russia? Has our ambassador to Moscow, Nigel Casey MVO CMG, been quietly warned to have his bags packed and his passport ready for a rapid departure?

If negotiations set to take place in Egypt on Sunday or Monday go as planned, the remaining 48 hostages could be freed 'within a few days,' a senior Israeli official told Channel 12 News.

The Black Sabbath frontman, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2019, passed away at the age of 76 on July 22 surrounded by his family.

Designed by world-renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor, who is also behind London 's Olympic Park tower, The Monte Sant'Angelo Station has opened just outside Naples in Italy .

Johnson, 38, once the proud owner of a £1.7m mansion he sold to England cricket skipper Ben Stokes , is now in more modest circumstances.

What a farce. Four years - with time served, more like three, and with good behavior, probably two - for Diddy. Combs so sure he'd get his way that he'd scheduled a paid speaking gig in Miami for next week.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been sentenced to four years behind bars for his prostitution conviction after being exiscerated by a judge.

"A small number of researchers are making real progress trying to create computers out of living cells," reports the BBC: Among those leading the way are a group of scientists in Switzerland, who I went to meet. One day, they hope we could see data centres full of "living" servers which replicate aspects of how artificial intelligence (AI) learns — and could use a fraction of the energy of current methods. That is the vision of Dr Fred Jordan, co-founder of the FinalSpark lab I visited. We are all used to the ideas of hardware and software in the computers we currently use. The somewhat eyebrow-raising term Dr Jordan and others in the field use to refer to what they are creating is "wetware". In simple terms, it involves creating neurons which are developed into clusters called organoids, which in turn can be attached to electrodes — at which point the process of trying to use them like mini-computers can begin... For FinalSpark, the process begins with stem cells derived from human skin cells, which they buy from a clinic in Japan. The actual donors are anonymous... In the lab, FinalSpark's cellular biologist Dr Flora Brozzi handed me a dish containing several small white orbs. Each little sphere is essentially a tiny, lab-grown mini-brain, made out of living stem cells which have been cultured to become clusters of neurons and supporting cells — these are the "organoids"... After undergoing a process which can last several months, the organoids are ready to be attached to an electrode and then prompted to respond to simple keyboard commands... Electrical stimulations are important first steps towards the team's bigger goal of triggering learning in the biocomputer's neurons so they can eventually adapt to perform tasks... FinalSpark are not the only scientists working in the biocomputing space. Australian firm Cortical Labs announced in 2022 that it had managed to get artificial neurons to play the early computer game Pong. In the US, researchers at Johns Hopkins University are also building "mini-brains" to study how they process information — but in the context of drug development for neurological conditions like Alzheimer's and autism. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the news.

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Comedian Jason Manford has shared the terrifying moment his flight rocked from side to side and was forced to abort landing in Belfast on Friday afternoon amid blustery Storm Amy winds.

The City of London Corporation (CLC), which manages the ponds, has launched a review setting out six possible approaches to gender inclusivity.

The reality TV icon, 44, was spotted stepping out for the Maison Alaïa show during Paris Fashion Week.