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Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves launched a City charm offensive in the wake of their victory, hoping to persuade businesses and investors to back their economic strategy.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: The world's first commercial hybrid of silicon circuitry and human brain cells will soon be available for rent. Marketed for its vast potential in medical research, the biological machine, grown inside a British laboratory, builds on the Pong-playing prototype, DishBrain. Each CL1 computer is formed of 800,000 neurons grown across a silicon chip, and their life-support system. While it can't yet match the mind-blowing capabilities of today's most powerful computers, the system has one very significant advantage: it only consumes a fraction of the energy of comparable technologies. AI centers now consume countries' worth of energy, whereas a rack of CL1 machines only uses 1,000 watts and is naturally capable of adapting and learning in real time. [...] When neuroscientist Brett Kagan and colleagues pitted their creation against equivalent levels of machine learning algorithms, the cell culture systems outperformed them. Users can send code directly into the synthetically supported system of neurons, which is capable of responding to electrical signals almost instantly. These signals act as bits of information that can be read and acted on by the cells. But perhaps the greatest potential for this biological and synthetic hybrid is as an experimental tool for learning more about our own brains and their abilities, from neuroscience to creativity. The first CL1 units will reportedly ship soon for $35,000 each. Remote access can apparently be rented for $300 per week.

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You're lucky to have me today. I had planned to take my new, taxpayer-subsidised Audi A8 long wheelbase job out for a spin.

We shall find out soon enough if the enormously-hyped return of Oasis actually lives up to its billing - and if those expensive tickets deliver anything more than just a blast of nostalgia.

The tennis wives and girlfriends - or TWAGS as they have become known - are known for their glitzy, jet-setting lifestyles and are often following their partners around the globe - including Wimbledon.

Around a tenth of the flowers bought in the UK are from British growers but this year farmers say they are battling unpredictable weather.

Lily Allen laughed on her Miss Me? podcast when trying to recall the number of abortions she'd had. 'I want to say five? Four?' as if she were trying to recollect how many of her teeth she'd had capped.

Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'

French AI business Mistral on Thursday announced an initiative called “AI for Citizens,” which it says offers a way to work with governments and public institutions to transform public services using AI.…

TikToker Mahan Lankarani tested his 1.6million followers on their driving knowledge inspired by real questions asked a UK theory exam.

The US president has repeatedly floated the idea of making Canada the 51st US state and has made several statements about the country's sovereignty and trade tariffs.

Train services are disrupted this morning after a fault with a signalling system.

It had, he declared, been 'a day we shall never forget'.

Photographs of a bruised Giuffre are purported to have been taken in January, two months before she claimed on social media a car accident had left her with 'four days to live'.

An international criminal kingpin calls up retired master-thief Mason Goddard and makes him an offer he can't refuse.

Green laning in 4x4s is the secret way to explore the UK's most spectacular landscapes. We explain the outdoor pursuit you should try.

Isas have been deemed too successful a savings product - the second best place to accumulate wealth after private pensions.

Incredible images have emerged from a far-flung corner of Australia.

Michael Madsen's heartbroken family rushed to the late actor's Malibu home on Thursday just hours after his shocking passing at age 67.

The 39-year-old was taken into custody in the Los Angeles area on Thursday and is being processed over alleged connections to the Sinaloa Cartel.

Channel 4 has confirmed the future of Made In Chelsea and its popular spin-off series Beyond Chelsea after high-profile cast exits.