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Brenda Frese's Maryland Terrapins were dumped out of the women's NCAA Tournament by the North Carolina Tar Heels, who ran out 74-66 winners in Chapel Hill on Saturday afternoon.

"Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas" reports a local news station: Musk announced on Saturday night during a livestream on his social media platform X that the plant, called "Terafab," will be built near Tesla's campus and gigafactory in eastern Travis County. The long-anticipated project is a joint venture between Musk-owned properties Tesla, SpaceX and xAI... The Terafab plant is expected to begin production in 2027. Musk "has said the semiconductor industry is moving too slow to keep up with the supply of chips he expects to need," writes Bloomberg — quoting Musk as saying "We either build the Terafab or we don't have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab." Musk detailed some specific plans, including producing chips that can support 100 to 200 gigawatts a year of computing power on Earth, and chips that can support a terawatt in space, but gave no timelines for the facility or its output... The facility is expected to make two types of chips, one of which will be optimized for edge and inference, primarily for his vehicle, robotaxi and Optimus humanoid robots. The other will be a high-power chip, designed for space that could be used by SpaceX and xAI... Musk said he expects xAI to use the vast majority of the chips. During the presentation, Musk also unveiled a speculative rendering of a future "mini" AI data center satellite, one piece of a much larger satellite system that he wants SpaceX to build to do complex computing in space. In January, SpaceX requested a license from the Federal Communications Commission to launch one million data center satellites into orbit around Earth. Musk said that the mini satellite he revealed would have the capacity for 100 kilowatts of power. "We expect future satellites to probably go to the megawatt range," Musk said. Raising money to build and launch AI data centers in space is one of the driving forces behind SpaceX's planned IPO later this year. SpaceX is expected to raise as much as $50 billion in a record-setting IPO this summer which could value it at more than $1.75 trillion, Bloomberg News reported earlier.

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An estimated one in 50 UK adults now use fat jabs with demand soaring since 2023 when the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) approved Wegovy for weight loss on the NHS.

A congressman noted that one scientist's disappearance was a national security issue, claiming that he possessed some nuclear secrets and also worked with recovered UFO tech.

The 30-year-old died after getting into difficulties in the sea off the Caribbean port city of Cartagena.

A Premier League game was interrupted for an anti-racism protocol for the first time on Sunday as Sunderland player Lutsharel Geertruida reported abuse.

In rare and heartbreaking cases, errors can leave parents raising children who are not biologically theirs - or discovering decades later that their family's genetic story isn't what they believed.

Slipping through sonar blind spots, the Ghadir-class mini subs silently shadow their prey, despatch their underwater anti-ship cruise missiles or homing torpedoes, then simply vanish.

Once upon a time if you wanted to boost your chances of selling a house, or cheer up the one you'd just moved into, then you'd simply give the place a lick of paint and buy a few pot plants.

Living in leggings and relying on your husband to trim your hair (with his clippers!) doesn't exactly spell glam. Sofia Eiworth is in need of a makeover

A new bill proposed in California "goes after big tech companies" writes Semafor. Supported by Y Combinator, Cory Doctorow , and the nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future, it's called the "BASED" act — an acronym which stands for "Blocking Anticompetitive Self-preferencing by Entrenched Dominant platforms." As announced by San Francisco state representative Scott Wiener, the bill "will restore competition to the digital marketplace by prohibiting any digital platform with a market capitalization greater than $1 trillion and serving 100 million or more monthly users in the U.S., from favoring their own products and services on the platforms they operate." More from Scott Wiener;s announcement: For years, giant digital platforms like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta have used their immense power to promote their own products and services while stifling competitors — a practice also known as self-preferencing. The result has been higher prices, diminished service, and fewer options for consumers, and less innovation across the technology ecosystem. Self-preferencing also locks startups and mid-sized companies out of the online marketplace unless they play by rules set by their competitors. As a new generation of AI-powered startups seeks to enter the marketplace, their success — and public access to the innovations they produce — depends on their ability to compete on an even playing field. "Anticompetitive behavior is everywhere on the internet," said Senator Wiener, "from rigged search results, to manipulative nudges boosting the 'house' product, to anti-discount policies that raise prices, to the dreaded green bubble that 'breaks' the group chat. When the world's largest digital platforms rig the game to favor their own products and services, we all lose. By prohibiting these anticompetitive practices, the BASED Act will protect competition online, empower consumers and startups, and promote innovations to improve all our lives." The announcement includes a quote from Teri Olle, VP of the nonprofit Economic Security California Action, saying the act would "safeguard merit-based market competition. This legislation stands for a simple principle: owning the stadium doesn't mean that you get to rig the game." Some conduct prohibited by the proposed bill includes Manipulating the order of search results to favor a provider's products or services, irrespective of a merit-based process, Using non-public data generated by third-party sellers — including sales volumes, pricing, and customer behavior — to develop competing products that are subsequently boosted above the third-party sellers' product... And the announcement also notes that "under the terms of the bill, providers could not prevent consumers from obtaining a portable copy of their own data or restrict voluntary data sharing (by consumers) with third parties." Read on for reactions from DuckDuckGo, Proton, Yelp, Y Combinator, and Cory Doctorow.

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Jamelah Daboubi, 28, a former high school teacher was caught in a twisted brazen relationship with her 15-year-old student. She pleaded guilty for the sex crimes in February.

Mandolyn Shaffer-Brockwell, 37, was arrested on February 23 after allegedly getting into a violent road rage altercation involved her, a pregnant woman, elderly driver and police officer.

Filled with glorious photos of sun-kissed Florida boardwalks, private yachts and exquisitely appointed properties, it is precisely the Instagram feed you would expect from a scion of Italian aristocracy

Our thoughts are with those who lost loved ones

They'll have been so caught up with paying off their debts throughout most of their working lives that they won't have had the opportunity to build up their pensions.

The number of Isa millionaires has at least doubled every three years since 2016, and more than trebled during periods when MSCI World returns exceeded 15%.

'I kept thinking back to odd things I'd noticed. Like the fact that I always felt like I was being watched on the stairs, they were so creepy, and little did I know there were bodies buried underneath.'

An anonymous reader shared this report from the tech-news blog Neowin: Apple appears to have temporarily prevented apps, including Replit and Vibecode, from pushing new updates. Apple seems bothered by how apps like Replit present vibe-coded apps in a web view within the original app. This process virtually allows the app to become something else. And the new app isn't distributed via the App Store, but it still runs on the user's device... [S]uch apps would also bypass the App Store Review process that ensures that apps are safe to use and meet Apple's design and performance standards... According to the publication (via MacRumors), Apple was close to approving pending updates for such apps if they changed how they work. For instance, Replit would get the green light if its developers configure the app to open vibe-coded apps in an external browser rather than the in-app web view. Vibecode is also close to being approved if it removes features, such as the ability to develop apps specifically for the App Store.

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The UK has given US forces the green light to run 'defensive' operations from its military sites, such as Diego Garcia.