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Footage taken by urban explorers showed the troop still in its enclosure at Bristol Zoo as the surrounding area is left abandoned, following the zoo's move to a new site.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Lloyds Banking Group claims employees save 46 minutes daily using Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on a survey of 1,000 users among nearly 30,000 deployed licenses. According to Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), the rollout is "helping teams summarize documents, prepare for meetings, and reduce administrative tasks." Almost 5,000 engineers are also using GitHub Copilot. Vic Weigler, chief technology officer at the finance corp, said in a statement: "We converted 11,000 lines of code across 83 files in half the expected time." An insider at the bank, a self-professed fan of the technology, listed some of the ways it was being used in their business area. These ranged from the mundane -- drafting and summarizing emails, transcribing meetings, and comparing documents to group standards -- to the eyebrow-raising, such as drafting legal clauses, undertaking due diligence, and creating complex Excel formulas. They told us the next step is creating bots and agents to perform repetitive data-based tasks and rolling out the technology to customer-facing processes. That said, they also noted the AI tools occasionally make mistakes. The "golden rule," is to "never use the output without checking it."

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Lunar landing reality distortion field slips for Musk's rocketeers

NASA's Acting Administrator has admitted that SpaceX is behind in plans to return astronauts to the Moon, has reopened lander contract competition, and pushed the deadline for a lunar landing to the end of the Trump administration in 2029.…

The 82-year-old was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May. His daughter celebrated his successful treatment with a post on Instagram on Monday.

Almost as many restaurants will be saved in a pre-pack administration deal led by the chain's parent company.

A deadly tornado ripped through France yesterday - and experts have warned that Britain could be next.

This is the moment Wetherspoons drinkers throw chairs in a huge brawl which saw a man punched to the floor and police called.

Holly Hagan has announced the death of her 19-year-old sister Darci Rose on Instagram.

The TV personality, 40, took to the stage to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her late father, who passed away in July aged 76.

The Orionid Meteor Shower is famous for fast meteors with glittering wakes known as 'trains' that sometimes linger for minutes.

Shortly after 8am in London, the British government's websites began to flicker and fade. Most of America was asleep, but night owls saw their Disney streaming services stall.

A security guard who plotted to kidnap, rape and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his sentence

A security guard who plotted to kidnap, rape and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his sentence

In her posthumous memoir, she describes a childhood so blighted by horrific abuse that she became the 'perfect victim' for sexual predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Supermarket giant Morrisons will close 103 stores, cafes, florists and pharmacies this year in the latest blow to the high street.

The TV personality, 35, who first found fame on TOWIE in 2011, has also competed in I'm A Celeb , Dancing On Ice , Love Island, Celebrity MasterChef.

Michelle Mills, 46, is accused alongside her lover ex-Royal Marine Geraint Berry, 46, of planning to murder Christopher Mills, 48, in a bid to 'move forward' with their three-month affair.

The situation is ongoing

When it comes to swagger, nobody does it quite like John Wayne. Now, experts have revealed that walking with a bit of oomph really can make you appear more powerful.

He has links to parts of south Essex