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The day after my mother died, I surveyed her room in the coastal Sussex care home she had moved into only a week before. She hadn't had time to make it a home.

We are a married couple who draws all of our income from savings interest but neither of us have had to submit self-assessment tax returns.

Brad, 61, was in Tokyo on June 25, when perpetrators climbed the fence and entered the home through the front windows.

Collaborationware CEO tried to smooth things over, but Hack Club now plans a strategy shift

Slack sent a nonprofit hacking club for teens a demand for $50,000, payable within a week, and threatened to delete the club’s message archive if it did not pay.…

A NZ woman revealed the tell-tale sign that led to the discovery that her fiancé was cheating on her. But calling off the wedding two weeks out from the big day wasn't the most shocking part...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is adding a whole load of AI agents to Teams today, promising Copilot assistants for every channel, meeting, and community. The new agents will also work across SharePoint and Viva Engage, and are rolling out for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Facilitator agents will now sit in on Teams meetings, creating agendas, taking notes, and answering questions. Agents can also suggest time allotments for different meeting topics -- letting participants know if they're running over -- and create documents and tasks. A mobile version is designed to be activated "with a single tap" so you can make sure the agent doesn't miss out on "a quick hallway chat or a spontaneous in-person sync." Channel agents are designed to answer questions based on a channel's previous conversations and meetings and can also generate status reports for a project the same way.

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Several closures on the A12, M25 and Dartford Crossing may impact Essex drivers this weekend, according to National Highways.

ONE of the world’s last operational Lancaster bomber planes will fly over a memorial set up by the Earls Colne Heritage Museum to honour a heroic group of aircrew who lost their lives 81 years ago.

Several closures on the A12, M25 and Dartford Crossing may impact Essex drivers this weekend, according to National Highways.

The changes will come in next year

Mary Berry looked worlds away from her usual baking self in the home of her kitchen as she put on a very stylish display in a tweed suit for her latest campaign with Holland Cooper. 

Teams with UAV operator Flytrex for service that moves meals in minutes

Flying pigs may soon be on their way to some US households, after rideshare and food delivery behemoth Uber teamed with drone operator Flytrex for food delivery services.…

Now that he's turned 50 and his baby-faced good looks have faded, Leonardo DiCaprio is becoming an expert at playing middle-aged men gone to seed.

Stephen Colbert has hit out at President Donald Trump following the abrupt cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel's show.

China's economy increasingly relies on 200 million "flexible workers" who lack formal employment contracts, pensions and urban residency permits despite comprising 25% of the national workforce and 40% of urban workers. The demographic includes 40 million day-wage factory workers and 84 million platform economy workers performing deliveries and ride-share driving. Factory gig workers average 26 years old, are 80% male, and 75-80% single and childless. These workers face systemic exclusions from urban benefits including healthcare, schooling and property ownership due to lacking urban hukou residency permits. China's Supreme Court ruled in August that workers can claim compensation from employers denying benefits, though enforcement mechanisms remain unclear. Economic data shows retail sales growth at yearly lows, continuing property price declines, and rising urban unemployment. Analysts project GDP growth potentially falling to 3% in the third quarter. Manufacturing hubs report increasing numbers of young workers sleeping in parks and under overpasses between temporary jobs.

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Shoppers are running to buy them!

His assured but humble acceptance speech and his historic win left few in doubt that this schoolboy from Cheshire would be a future star. And we can reveal the offers are coming in thick and fast.

Their report released on Thursday said they are 'not confident' this country could prevent the sabotage of its communication and internet links.

Thanks for the memories, Akatsuki

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided to abandon its Akatsuki Venus orbiter, after losing contact with the craft last year.…

If you're wondering what effect Intel's blockbuster deal with Nvidia will have on its existing product roadmaps, Intel has one message for you: it won't. PCWorld: "We're not discussing specific roadmaps at this time, but the collaboration is complementary to Intel's roadmap and Intel will continue to have GPU product offerings," an Intel spokesman told my colleague, Brad Chacos, earlier today. I heard similar messaging from other Intel representatives. Nvidia's $5 billion investment in Intel, as well as Nvidia's plans to supply RTX graphics chiplets to Intel for use in Intel's CPUs, have two major potential effects: first, it could rewrite Intel's mobile roadmap for laptop chips, because of the additional capabilities provided by those RTX chiplets. Second, the move threatens Intel's ongoing development of its Arc graphics cores, including standalone discrete GPUs as well as integrated chips. We're still not convinced that Arc's future will be left unscathed, in part because Intel's claim that it will "continue" to have GPU product offerings sounds a bit wishy-washy. But Intel sounds much more definitive on the former point, in that the mobile roadmap that you're familiar with will remain in place.

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