Mother of British man, 20, who died in lift shaft 'fall' on dream holiday is thrown out of inquest for arguing with coroner, saying British police must investigate case
Rachel Kerry insisted British police should be investigating son Tyler's death in Turkey because of suspicions it wasn't an accident.
Braintree pupils plant trees at new Community Diagnostic Centre
Pupils from Great Bradfords Junior School 'planted for patients' at the site of Braintree's new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC).
Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere
Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW
Ohio residents are proposing a ban on datacenters with a capacity greater than 25 MW, the latest sign of growing opposition to massive server farms across the US.…
Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes
Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creating
Microsoft has published a handy guide for regaining access to a C:\ drive borked by a Samsung application, but it isn't for the faint of heart.…
Can you tell a £25,000 ring from a £49 one? As largest white diamond in the UK for over a decade sells for £1million, how to spot a true sparkler
The largest white diamond to come to the UK market in over a decade has sold for £1.009million in London's Notting Hill, to an anonymous Briton who bought the impressive band as a gift for his wife.
Nigerian migrant who raped 19-year-old girl was not deported after previous sexually-motivated attack 'to protect his right to family life'
Nigerian national Gift Oladele, 24, was found guilty last week of raping a 19-year-old woman in woodland, near Wrexham last September.
Grandson of tennis legend sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting young girls he coached
Daniel James Riggs, 33, was arrested in December 2024 on charges of enticement of a minor and production of child pornography, according to the US Attorney's Office.
Why you must NEVER ignore a tingling or painful tongue. DR PHILIPPA KAYE who reveals the possible causes, the solutions... and when you should worry
I have a constantly tingling tongue. It's not painful, but it's really distracting. What could be the cause?
Fundraiser launched for brave Colchester youngster, four, battling rare tumour
The family’s life was turned upside down when Remy was diagnosed with an aggressive Rhabdoid tumour on December 23.
Jailed in Essex: 5 criminals put behind bars in March so far
Five criminals have been jailed across Essex so far this month, ranging from rape and sexual assault to paedophilia offences.
2026 Turing Award Goes To Inventors of Quantum Cryptography
Dave Knott shares a report from the New York Times: On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, said Drs. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard had won this year's Turing Award for their work on quantum cryptography and related technologies. The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called the Nobel Prize of computing, and it includes a $1 million prize, which the two scientists will share.
[...] The two met in 1979 while swimming in the Atlantic just off the north shore of Puerto Rico. They were taking a break while attending an academic conference in San Juan. Dr. Bennett swam up to Dr. Brassard and suggested they use quantum mechanics to create a bank note that could never be forged. Collaborating between Montreal and New York, they applied Dr. Bennett's idea to subway tokens rather than bank notes. In a research paper published in 1983, they showed that their quantum subway tokens could never be forged, even if someone managed to steal the subway turnstile housing the elaborate hardware needed to read them.
This led to quantum cryptography. After describing their new form of encryption in a research paper published in 1984, they demonstrated the technology with a physical experiment five years later. Called BB84, their system used photons -- particles of light -- to create encryption keys used to lock and unlock digital data. Thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics, the behavior of a photon changes if someone looks at it. This means that if anyone tries to steal the keys, he or she will leave a telltale sign of the attempted theft -- a bit like breaking the seal on an aspirin bottle.
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Popeyes and Umami restaurants to take over former Essex M&S store
Works are now well underway on the major regeneration of the former department store
Fundraiser launched for brave Colchester youngster, four, battling rare tumour
The family’s life was turned upside down when Remy was diagnosed with an aggressive Rhabdoid tumour on December 23.
Developers must build infrastructure before thousands of homes, councillor says
Developers will “have a responsibility” to build infrastructure before housing, a councillor has said.
Jailed in Essex: 5 criminals put behind bars in March so far
Five criminals have been jailed across Essex so far this month, ranging from rape and sexual assault to paedophilia offences.
MP Priti Patel highlights Essex attractions for English Tourism Week
Witham MP Priti Patel is marking English Tourism Week by promoting attractions across Essex.
Thousands attend funeral of Iran's 'stand-in' leader Ali Larijani and his son as their bodies are paraded on trucks adorned with images of the dead
The top official was assassinated in Israeli airstrikes on Monday night, which also killed his son and body guards in a hideout apartment on the outskirts of the capital.
Skier is killed when gondola detaches from cable and rolls down mountain at Swiss resort
Dramatic footage shows the cabin tumbling down the slope at the Titlis resort after becoming detached, flipping several times as horrified onlookers watched on.
Comedian Sean Hughes' £4m fortune is given to homelessness charity after ten-year legal saga over his homemade will
British-born Irish comedian Sean Hughes, who died aged 51 in 2017, has seen his £4million portfolio of property assets passed to the organisation Shelter.
Princess Beatrice receives touching Mother's Day gift from her stepson, nine, amid continued fallout from the Epstein scandal
Dara Huang, the ex-fiancée of Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , shared a video of their nine-year-old son Christopher 'Wolfie' Woolf Mapelli Mozzi, as he worked on a thoughtful card for Beatrice, 37.