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The 'largest' offshore windfarm in the world could be built in Scotland after the SNP Government granted planning permission.

Investors cash in as design firm goes public after takeover dreams dashed

updated  Adobe competitor and one-time acquisition target Figma debuted on public markets on Thursday with 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at $33 apiece, valuing the web design tool developer at $19.3 billion. But the price-setters apparently underestimated demand dramatically, as investors sent the price up more than threefold by the end of the trading day.…

Norman Tebbit, the best Prime Minister we never had, was laid to rest today. Requiem for the Conservative Party, somebody called it.

Crims warned 40% of respondents that they and their families would suffer

Ransomware gangs now frequently threaten physical violence against employees and their families as a way to force victim organizations into paying their demands.…

Héctor Santacruz attacked Claudia Segura in the terminal of El Dorado International Airport, Colombia, in a fight over a seat.

A planning application has been submitted

Apple began selling iPad repair parts to the public in late May following new right-to-repair legislation, but independent repair professionals say the pricing makes most repairs economically unviable. A charge port for an iPad Pro 11 costs $250 from Apple compared to less than $20 for aftermarket parts, Brian Clark of iGuys Tech Shop told 404 Media. An iPad A16 digitizer costs $200 from Apple versus $50 from third-party suppliers, while the entire iPad A16 retails for $349. The iPad Pro 13 screen assembly costs $749. Jonathan Strange of XiRepair analyzed the parts catalog and found more than one-third of components cost too much for repair shops to use profitably, 404 Media reported Thursday. Strange calculates repair viability by adding $85 labor costs and 10% profit margin to parts prices, then comparing the total to half the device's retail cost.

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Ozzy, who died on July 22 aged 76, had three children with his wife Sharon - Aimee, 40, Kelly, 39 and Jack, 38.

The Black Sabbath frontman is being buried in a freshly dug grave close to the lake at the heart of the sprawling 250-acre property near Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.

A new season of the knockout reality show will hit screens next month, and the Channel 4 slot tracks 14 celebrities as they attempt to pass the gruelling SAS selection test.

Pfeiffer took to Instagram to walk back comments that she made earlier this month, apologizing for expressing concerns over the FDA's approval of Apeel, a controversial Gates-backed food coating

The attack unfolded during a Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) camp at Presbyterian College in South Carolina on July 7, with footage showing the boy being assaulted.

Illumina allegedly lied about its testing devices meeting government standards

Biotech firm Illumina has agreed to cut the US government a check for the eminently affordable amount of $9.8 million to resolve allegations that it has been selling the feds genetic testing systems riddled with security vulnerabilities the company knew about but never bothered to fix.…

Google lost its appeal Thursday of a judge's order that will force the tech giant to open up its app store to competitors. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling requiring Google Play to allow rival marketplaces and billing systems, ending a legal battle that began when Epic Games sued over anticompetitive practices. A jury sided with Epic in December 2023, finding Google paid phone makers and app developers to use its store exclusively.

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The singer, 44, broke the news of his devastating health battle to fans on Thursday as he marked the end of his Forget Tomorrow World Tour.

Footage surfaced online showing the woman, known only as Holly, and a man being attacked over the weekend in Cincinnati.

Mardell, 64, has been at the company for more than three decades including the last two years as chief exec during one of the most transformative periods in the firm's recent history.

Director Kathleen Marshall's 2021 production of Anything Goes welcomed us out of lockdown. This doesn't have the same panache, but for sheer blissful froth, it gave me goosebumps.

Facility to be built with $1 billion investment from Nscale and Aker

OpenAI's Stargate initiative has teleported to Europe, where the AI flag bearer has enlisted datacenter builder Nscale and Norwegian energy magnate Aker ASA to deploy a 100,000-GPU compute cluster in the Arctic by 2026.…

North Carolina girl Rapp has yet to secure a UK Top 40 single, but such is her surging popularity that she's already booked into arenas for a British tour next spring.