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Lady Gabriella Windsor made a powerful appearance at a charity gala in New York, following her husband's tragic passing last year.

Walmart plans to deploy sensors across its 4,600 US stores by the end of 2026 to track 90 million pallets of groceries shipped annually [Editor's note: non-paywalled source]. The retailer and technology vendor Wiliot announced the expansion Thursday. The sensors will monitor the location, condition and temperature of perishables as they move from warehouses to stores. Walmart started testing Wiliot's sensors at a Texas warehouse in 2023 and has expanded to 500 locations. The full rollout will cover the retailer's US store network and 40 distribution centers. The microchips measure 0.7 square millimeters and are embedded in shipping labels. They use Bluetooth to transmit real-time data about pallets. Walmart previously relied on manual scanning and paper checks by employees. The Arkansas-based company employs 2.1 million people but increased revenues by $150 billion over five years without adding workers. Walmart accounts for more than a fifth of US grocery sales.

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Artificial intelligence works when humans use it wisely

Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models.…

It is on the Essex Eats awards shortlist

Rather than herald a new dawn for Labour, it evoked memories of one of the party's worst election gaffes in living memory - when Gordon Brown dismissed Gillian Duffy's immigration concerns.

European governing body UEFA has also shelved plans to boot Israel out of European competition in the wake of Donald Trump's peace plan, easing pressure on Infantino.

The estate of Germany legend Franz Beckenbauer, who died aged 78 last year, has now finally been distributed to his loved-ones, according to a report.

One officer was recorded pressing the 'I' key more than 16,000 times

Police in the United Kingdom appear to be taking a cue from Homer Simpson's playbook, with officers in multiple departments accused of "key jamming" to make it look like they were working from home when they likely weren't. …

Police said the alleged attack of a woman in her 30s happened in the grounds of St Mary's Church in Banbury during the early hours of Sunday morning.

Top college degrees may no longer provide the edge they once did in the job market, per LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky. "I think the mindset shift is probably the most exciting thing because my guess is that the future of work belongs not anymore to the people that have the fanciest degrees or went to the best colleges, but to the people who are adaptable, forward thinking, ready to learn, and ready to embrace these tools," Roslansky said. "It really kind of opens up the playing field in a way that I think we've never seen before." A 2024 Microsoft survey found 71% of business leaders would choose less-experienced candidates with AI skills over experienced candidates without them. LinkedIn data showed job postings requiring AI literacy increased about 70% year-over-year. Roslansky said AI will not replace humans but people who embrace AI will replace those who don't.

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Ruth, a school administrator, and Craig, a carpenter, have rented the same three-bedroom house in Sale, Greater Manchester for the past 13 years before wanting Phil Spencer's help.

Russia last night accused the US of helping Ukraine target pits energy infrastructure by providing intelligence for Ukrainian long-range missile strikes deep inside the country.

London-based finance manager Denis Kopanev, 33, mysteriously vanished on Monday, June 9 in Gavea, Rio de Janerio and a body has now been found.

Of all of the hyperscalers and cloud builders, Meta Platforms has always been the one that we expected to design and have manufactured its own CPU and XPU accelerator compute engines. …

Meta Buys Rivos To Accelerate Compute Engine Engineering was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

An anonymous reader shares a report: It's not the vibes; Earth is literally getting darker. Scientists have discovered that our planet has been reflecting less light in both hemispheres, with a more pronounced darkening in the Northern hemisphere, according to a study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The new trend upends longstanding symmetry in the surface albedo, or reflectivity, of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. In other words, clouds circulate in a way that equalizes hemispheric differences, such as the uneven distribution of land, so that the albedos roughly match -- though nobody knows why. "There are all kinds of things that people have noticed in observations and simulations that tend to suggest that you have this hemispheric symmetry as a kind of fundamental property of the climate system, but nobody's really come up with a theoretical framework or explanation for it," said Norman Loeb, a physical scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, who led the new study. "It's always been something that we've observed, but we haven't really explained it fully." To study this mystery, Loeb and his colleagues analyzed 24 years of observations captured since 2000 by the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES), a network of instruments placed on several NOAA and NASA satellites. Instead of an explanation for the strange symmetry, the results revealed an emerging asymmetry in hemispheric albedo; though both hemispheres are darkening, the Northern hemisphere shows more pronounced changes which challenges "the hypothesis that hemispheric symmetry in albedo is a fundamental property of Earth," according to the study.

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They beat 300 other players to the jackpot

Strictly is such an immersive experience that the current crop of contestants have become so close they've set up a WhatsApp group to share their ups and downs.

According to the British Transport Police, the policy gives the forces more time to patrol stations and trains and to investigate the crimes which cause 'the most harm'.

Business Secretary Peter Kyle has come under fire after he claimed opponents to workers' rights are from 'certain educational backgrounds'.

Disgraced 'Baroness Bra' Michelle Mone has suggested Government criticism is putting her at risk of murder or suicide.