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Walmart is taking a lesson from the humble honeybee in its quest to make its deliveries as fast as possible. From a report: The retail giant already boasts a formidable store count of 4,700 locations across the US, which puts it within a short drive of more than 90% of households. But in order to grow its reach without necessarily having to build new supercenters, Walmart says it has been using a relatively new hexagonal map segmentation -- a change from the conventional ZIP code or radius-based strategies that are commonly used in determining delivery areas. Walmart says the strategy allows it to better understand where customers are and which stores have what they want. As bees have long known, hexagons can be an excellent shape for making the most of a given space, and Walmart says the more precise maps allow it to reach an additional 12 million US households with same-day delivery. "This is helping us to adapt how we service our customers, by allowing us to go from a fixed-mile radius into a much more dynamic catchment area that caters to the needs of the customers that a particular store will serve," Walmart global tech senior director of engineering Parthibban Raja told Fast Company in December, following a pilot of the concept. Walmart says its platform uses a combination of its own data and open-source software to create new delivery zones.

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South West Water said around 9,500 houses in the area were still experiencing a loss of water supply or lower water pressure than usual.

The Harry Potter author, 59, has made headlines for her controversial views and has celebrated Supreme Court 's landmark judgment that trans women are not legally women.

The Oscars are the biggest night in Hollywood, but a new rule will now require the people who vote on who or what deserves awards will have to put in some more work.

Heartbroken pet owners are fighting for a £100-a-month 'wonder drug' for dogs with arthritis to come with a warning after a spate of deaths linked to the medicine.

Fear of ridicule commonly causes people to bottle up their experiences and prevents them from sharing their stories anywhere except in guarded inner circles.

As cyber-agency faces cuts, makes noises about switching up program

Two top officials have resigned from Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, furthering fears of a brain drain amid White House cuts to the federal workforce.…

Rawal Rehman, 35, had snorted '20 lines' of the Class A drug in seven hours and visited two massage parlours before the tragedy the following morning when he killed Louisa Palmisano.

A Long Island man who is the curator of murderabilia from some of America's most notorious serial killers just snatched up what he calls 'the holy grail of serial killer collecting.'

An anonymous reader shares a report: Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram, testified on Tuesday in a landmark federal antitrust trial that he left Meta in 2018 because his company was denied resources. The government has argued that Meta purchased Instagram in 2012 as part of a "buy-or-bury strategy" to illegally cement its social media monopoly by killing off its rivals. Last week, current and former Meta executives testified that the social media giant, formerly known as Facebook, used its deep pockets to invest in Instagram after its purchase. In testimony at the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, Mr. Systrom painted a different picture, saying he left Meta because Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, wasn't investing enough. At that time, Instagram had grown to 1 billion users, about 40 percent of Facebook's size, yet the photo-sharing app had only 1,000 employees compared to 35,000 employees at Facebook, he said. "We were by far the fastest growing team. We produced the most revenue and relative to what we should have been at the time, I felt like we should have been much larger," said Mr. Systrom, who is expected to testify for six hours. Mr. Systrom said he found the decisions baffling. When asked by an F.T.C. lawyer why Mr. Zuckerberg might have decided to give Instagram fewer resources, Mr. Systrom said it was a consistent pattern during his tenure at Meta. "Mark was not investing in Instagram because he believed we were a threat to their growth," he said, referring to Mr. Zuckerberg's prioritization of Facebook.

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Kim Kardashian has refuted ex Kanye West's shock claim he has not seen son Saint 'this year' in his latest wild social media tirade.

In less than a year, Katy Perry has released an album, campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris and flown to space. 

Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process

The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) will hold elections on June 23rd, perhaps giving the regional internet registry the chance to convene a board for the first time in three years.…

The 64-year-old has said his bosses at the BBC were 'silly' for taking him off air during yet another impartiality crisis of his own making, insisting it was a 'ridiculous overreaction'.

A 32-year-old man - who is believed to be British and from Liverpool - was killed on Monday night in the popular British holiday resort of Calahonda between Marbella and Fuengirola.

The pigeon sadly had to be euthanised. Warning: This story contains graphic images some may find distressing

Motorists have also been seen reversing and doing U-turns to avoid joining the A12.

A popular gay porn star has died unexpectedly due to complications from an enlarged heart.

A parents' horrifying nightmare came to a miraculous end when a dog saved their toddler who had vanished nearly 16 hours before.