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You might be worried that robots and AI will take your job, or even take over the world.

The Horizon scandal - which took place between 1999 and 2015 - is regarded as Britain's biggest miscarriage of justice after hundreds of people were wrongly prosecuted

Adam Ramsay-Peaty took a swipe at his estranged family as he broke down in tears following his surprise Commonwealth Games defeat on Saturday.

Saz Burwin asked the new premier to hold off on visiting the office on August 21 amid fears she would be unable to get 'nice photos'.

Analysis found nearly a dozen cash-strapped town halls have drawn up plans to bring in the levy for people who drive to work, with growing fears many more will start looking to them.

Absence rates jumped by up to nearly a fifth in major government departments last year.

The reality star tied the knot with Victoria in July of last year, and they are already parents to their four-year-old son Crew.

Despite waiting lists barely falling, 574 fat-cat bureaucrats at NHS trusts banked base salaries worth more than the £182,000 the Prime Minister is entitled to.

Meghan Markle's husband Prince Harry surprised her with a FaceTime call during her appearance on MasterChef Australia on Sunday night.

Digital Trends reports: Apple could unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027, followed by a consumer release toward the end of the year, according to Bloomberg... Part of the delay reportedly stems from Apple's engineering and marketing teams spending more time refining the product and deciding how to address the privacy concerns... Apple has reportedly considered glasses without cameras, as well as a version where the cameras can analyse the surroundings but cannot record photos or video. Such an approach could still support object recognition, navigation, Siri, calls, and music playback. The company is also expected to favor on-device processing, avoid facial recognition, keep recordings away from AI training, and use a more visible light around the camera.

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NIK SIMON IN GLASGOW: The 31-year-old broke down in tears after finishing third in the men's 100 metres breaststroke final, having held the world record since 2015.

Meghan Markle revealed Prince Harry's favourite meal during her appearance on MasterChef Australia on Sunday night.

Punch, a macaque who lives in Ichikawa city zoo, near Tokyo, sought comfort in a plush toy orangutan after being left alone in his enclosure.

Alex Chui, a Year 13 pupil from Tonbridge School in Kent, beat more than 600 participants at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) to claim first place.

Meghan Markle insisted that she did not want to be called 'Duchess' as Poh Ling Yeow introduced her on MasterChef Australia on Sunday evening. 

Chaos ensued at a Virginia baseball stadium when a fireworks display went horribly wrong. Fans fled for their lives as fireworks and smoke spewed towards the stands.

Flyers have been unable to flush toilets, wash their hands or refill water bottles.

A U.S. district court "has dismissed Google's case against SerpApi over that company's scraping of search results to train AI models," reports Computerworld. Google had claimed that it was protecting copyright holders — and that SerpApi's actions breached America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA): [Google] made two claims: first, that no person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title, and second that no person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, or component protected by the Act. SerpApi claimed that the URLs and other links that were being served by Google did not in themselves entail copyright and the judge agreed. In her judgment, she said that there was no indication that the copyright holders had authorized Google to take action against SerpApi. The case is not completely over as the judge has given Google 21 days to amend its complaint to demonstrate that it was acting on behalf of the copyright owners. SerpApi's CEO reacted to the court's ruling as "a win not just for SerpApi, but for all who depend on an open internet. We're pleased that the court rejected Google's attempts to expand the DMCA to assert control over access to public pages. The internet's founding principle — open access to usable information — is essential to driving innovation and ensuring everyone benefits from the promise of data. SerpApi will continue supporting developers, AI companies, researchers, and businesses that rely on access to public search information." Some analysis from Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber: I've come around on SerpApi in the last few months. My initial take was that it surely must be illegal for a company to scrape Google's search results and offer access to that data as an API. But I've come around to the argument that what SerpApi is doing to obtain Google search results is, well, exactly how Google scrapes the rest of the entire web to build its search index. It's all just scraping publicly accessible web pages. This December piece by Mike Masnick at Techdirt is what began to change my mind. In fact, Masnick wrote, Google "built its entire business on scraping the web without asking permission first. And now it wants to use one of the most abused provisions in copyright law to stop others from doing something functionally similar to what made Google a tech giant in the first place." Now Google is even getting heckled about the decision on social media. "If Google wants to refile the suit within the allowed 21 days, it has to admit that site owners have copyright protection of their work and THAT would open the door to them suing Google for scraping their content for AI Overviews."

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Simon O'Donovan was remanded in custody after an alleged car bomb was intercepted by a Garda Special Detective Unit near Carrickmacross, approximately six miles from the border.

The 45-year-old actor was introduced onstage during a panel at the San Diego Comic Con, confirming his forthcoming portrayal as an iconic comic book character.