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Hyundai Motor Group is accelerating its factory automation efforts by deploying Atlas humanoid robots from Boston Dynamics at its Metaplant America facility in Georgia, as part of a broader $21 billion U.S. investment strategy to boost efficiency and local production amid rising tariffs. InterestingEngineering reports: At Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, Hyundai already uses Spot robots -- four-legged machines -- for industrial inspections. In addition, the plant features a dedicated robot that removes car doors before the vehicles enter General Assembly, and a fixed robot that reinstalls the doors toward the end of the process -- a technology unique to the Georgia facility. The South Korean automaker has not disclosed how many Atlas robots will be deployed at the facility or what specific tasks they will perform. According to reports, the company plans to further expand the use of robots across its global manufacturing facilities, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency. [...] The automaker aims to manufacture 300,000 electric and hybrid vehicles annually at the new facility. At its recent Grand Opening Ceremony, the company announced plans to ramp up production to 500,000 units over time, without specifying a timeline.

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A woman filmed defecating on a car during a road rage incident in Pennsylvania has been charged with multiple offenses - now it's been revealed she's no stranger to the wilder side of life.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: The solution seems obvious. Knock down Wandsworth prison, build luxury flats and raise a couple of billion quid.

A much-loved attraction in Bournemouth, UK, that closed down in 2023 is getting a brand-new lease of life - and it's set to reopen later this year as a 'creative' and 'stimulating' adventure park. 

Last month the National Trust banned coaches from the car park at Birling Gap and Seven Sisters in a bid to stem the 600,000 tourists who visit each year causing damage to the iconic white cliffs.

Around 30 female protesters wearing false beards, wigs and moustaches descended on the male-only pond demanding to be let in because they self-identified as male.

Lorde left little to the imagination as she arrived to the 2025 Met Gala in New York City on Monday night.

Dua Lipa looked more loved-up than ever with fiancé Callum Turner as they made their red carpet debut at the 2025 Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit Gala on Monday.

Because who needs cybersecurity when there’s culture wars to win

President Trump's dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million - about 17 percent – and accuses the organization of abandoning its core mission in favor of policing online speech.…

Kieran Hibble, 28, of Rawlings Crescent, Colchester, has racked up a slew of convictions after committing his first offence at 13 years old.

This is the moment a killjoy neighbour complained about the volume of the music blaring from David Beckham 's 50th birthday bash at a top restaurant in Notting Hill.

Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made films, citing national security concerns and accusing other countries of luring U.S. film production abroad with incentives. PBS reports: "The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death," he wrote [on his Truth Social platform], complaining that other countries "are offering all sorts of incentives to draw" filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. "This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!" It wasn't immediately clear how any such tariff on international productions could be implemented. It's common for both large and small films to include production in the U.S. and in other countries. Big-budget movies like the upcoming "Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning," for instance, are shot around the world. Incentive programs for years have influenced where movies are shot, increasingly driving film production out of California and to other states and countries with favorable tax incentives, like Canada and the United Kingdom. Yet Trump's tariffs are designed to lead consumers toward American products. And in movie theaters, American-produced movies overwhelming dominate the domestic marketplace. "Other nations have been stealing the movie-making capabilities from the United States," Trump told reporters at the White House on Sunday night after returning from a weekend in Florida. "If they're not willing to make a movie inside the United States we should have a tariff on movies that come in."

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Libby Woolford, from Porth, was out with her boyfriend and some friends in Pentre, Rhondda Cynon Taf, when she went from 'sober to in a complete state' within minutes.

Trump said after his surprise announcement of a plan to reopen Alcatraz that the prison represents 'law and order,' invoked the movies, and described a failed escape with a grim end.

The No Time To Die star, 37, watched on as birthday boy David pulled out a few moves in a snap from Saturday night posted to Victoria Beckham's Instagram on Monday.

The 28-year-old A-lister perfectly embodied the 'Tailored For You' theme of fashion's biggest night as she donned an all white suit from Louis Vuitton.

Jessica Gunning, Monica Dolan, Sophie Willan, Lolly Adefope, Katherine Parkinson, Anjana Vasan, Kate O'Flynn and Nicola Coughlan all looked sensational for their individual cover shots.

Sam Thompson has been photographed holding the hand of his new beau Sami Elishi in a sweet, loved-up moment. 

PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more!

Infosec In Brief  Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump passwords in favor of passkeys.…

Waymo and Magna International plan to double production of Waymo's robotaxis at their Mesa, Arizona facility by the end of 2026, aiming to assemble over 2,000 Jaguar I-PACE vehicles and eventually tens of thousands annually, including next-gen models. CNBC reports: The "Waymo Driver Integration Plant," a 239,000 square foot facility outside of Phoenix, will assemble more than 2,000 Jaguar I-PACE robotaxis, the Alphabet company said in a statement. Waymo will add those self-driving vehicles to its existing fleet that already includes around 1,500 robotaxis. The plant will be "capable of building tens of thousands of fully autonomous Waymo vehicles per year," when it is fully built out, Waymo said. The company also said it plans to build its more advanced Geely Zeekr RT robotaxis that feature its "6th-generation Waymo Driver" technology later this year at the plant. Waymo and Magna opened the Mesa plant in October, Forbes reported Monday. The Alphabet-owned company started its commercial robotaxi service in Phoenix in 2020 and now calls the area its domestic manufacturing home. Already, Waymo is conducting 250,000 paid, driverless rides per week across its service areas in Austin, the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles and Phoenix, and the company is planning to begin serving the Atlanta; Miami; and Washington, D.C., markets in 2026.

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