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Lena Dunham claims she and Adam Driver nearly shared an intimate exchange just a month before he got engaged to his now-wife Joanne Tucker.

Graham Norton has revealed he told pop icon Taylor Swift she 'made his dreams come true' by asking him to appear in her nineties-themed music video for Opalite.

The trend for 'parenting like its the 90s' includes digging out retro technology, playing board games together and even letting children be bored without the distraction of iPhones,

One of the 80s' most iconic heartthrobs shocked fans with a jaw-dropping look during a rare outing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

The controversial biomass power station receives 'overly generous' payments of £2.7million a day and more than £100,000 an hour, energy think tank Ember found.

The reasons why Harry Maguire has been given an extra one-game ban following his red card at Bournemouth last month can be revealed, after the FA released the findings of their disciplinary hearing.

New research commissioned by Alzheimer's Society has revealed that half of all dementia training packages for care staff last just one to two hours.

Real Madrid's anguish soon turned to fury after full-time in their absorbing defeat by Bayern Munich on Wednesday night. Referee Slavko Vincic was harangued after the game ended.

Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind into its robotic dog Spot, giving it more autonomous reasoning for industrial inspections like spotting spills and reading gauges. Spot can also now recognize when to call on other AI tools. IEEE Spectrum reports: Boston Dynamics is one of the few companies to commercially deploy legged robots at any appreciable scale; there are now several thousand hard at work. Today the company is announcing that its quadruped robot Spot is now equipped with Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a high-level embodied reasoning model that brings usability and intelligence to complex tasks. [T]he focus of this partnership is on one of the very few applications where legged robots have proven themselves to be commercially viable: inspection. That is, wandering around industrial facilities, checking to make sure that nothing is imminently exploding. With the new AI onboard, Spot is now able to autonomously look for dangerous debris or spills, read complex gauges and sight glasses, and call on tools like vision-language-action models when it needs help understanding what's going on in the environment around it. "Advances like Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 mark an important step toward robots that can better understand and operate in the physical world," Marco da Silva, vice president and general manager of Spot at Boston Dynamics, says in a press release. "Capabilities like instrument reading and more reliable task reasoning will enable Spot to see, understand, and react to real-world challenges completely autonomously." You can watch a demo of Spot's new capabilities on YouTube.

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Joe McCann, 45, a crypto founder, is being questioned by the Tanzania Police Force about influencer Ashlee Jenae's death at the Zuri Zanzibar resort.

A number of retro UK foods such as cottage cheese, corned beef and condensed milk are enjoyed differently now.

The White House has issued their first comments regarding the mysterious deaths and disappearances of US scientists, and the public has not been pleased with the answer.

Anne Diamond is one of the biggest stars on GB News , but her ex-husband has been inspired to enter politics by another of the channel's leading presenters - Nigel Farage.

Reports suggested the US and Iran are considering extending the ceasefire by two weeks to allow further peace negotiations. But last night the White House denied it had formally requested an extension.

Scots unionist voters are being urged by Kemi Badenoch to unite to help stop the SNP 'tearing our country apart'.

Sara Cox is said to be next in line for the Radio 2 Breakfast Show gig after Scott Mills was sacked from the BBC.

Melania Trump made a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Wednesday - breaking her silence for the first time since her Epstein comments.

After years of trying to hide his shame, the 32-year-old bravely spoke out about the harrowing ordeal in an Instagram video, posted on Wednesday night.

1960s screen icon Joy Harmon, who wowed fans in Cool Hand Luke, has died aged 87.

In an interview with Fox News, Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that allowing Chinese vehicle imports could put nearly a million U.S. jobs at risk. He said China's heavily subsidized auto industry has enough excess capacity to supply the entire U.S. market, while also raising serious cybersecurity concerns given how much data modern connected cars collect. Ars Technica reports: "First of all, the Chinese have huge direct support for their auto companies," Farley said, while noting that China has the ability to build an additional 21 million vehicles a year on top of the 29 million that are expected to roll off Chinese production lines in 2026. "They have enough capacity in China to cover all the manufacturing, all the vehicle sales in the United States," Farley said. "Manufacturing is the heart and soul of our country, and for us to lose those exports would be devastating for our country," he continued, before pointing out the cybersecurity worries about Chinese cars. "All the vehicles have 10 cameras. They can collect a lot of data," he said. Farley has praised Chinese EVs like the Xiaomi SU7, even going on podcasts to sing its praises. But he believes Ford's forthcoming affordable Kentucky-built EVs, due to start hitting dealerships next year, have what it takes to be competitive. When asked about new car prices rising an average of 2 percent last year, Farley repeatedly said that Ford had "worked with the administration" so that there's "essentially no big impact" of the Trump tariffs. The CEO justified the rising costs by pointing to the F-150's sales as proof of its value.

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