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Victims of impersonation scams lost £3,516 on average in the past year - a 10 per cent increase on a year earlier, according to the latest data.

It's "radically different from other quantum computers" reports Phys.org. The Helios system uses trapped ions — charged atoms suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields. But it operates with 98 qubits — making it the largest trapped-ion quantum computer built so far. Quantinuum, the company behind the device, is based in Cambridge, U.K., and Broomfield, Colorado. It demonstrated earlier machines operating on 32 qubits in 2023 and 56 qubits in 2025... It relies on two major advances — one in hardware and one in software. First, the four-way X junction lets the system handle several tasks at once rather than one at a time, which is much faster. That was impossible in earlier QCCD [quantum charge-coupled device] machines, which could only move data back and forth in a single line or loop. Second, judicious use of the freedom offered by the two dimensions of the X junction relies on new classical control software called Helios runtime, which plans the smartest, fastest route for moving and processing the data. Together, these represent a substantial advance in the engineering of quantum computers. An important consequence is that Helios can perform computations that cannot be performed even on the largest supercomputers using known methods within reasonable amounts of time and power consumption. This demonstrates the ability of this device and its successors to surpass the computational prowess of classical computers — although their algorithms and hardware are rapidly advancing, too. Having said that, Helios' computations have just been random benchmark tests, so the practical importance of this leap forward is still limited. To perform quantum computations of practical importance in science and commerce, even the most optimistic estimates suggest that quantum computers must be enormously bigger and better — of the order of a million qubits.

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The proportion of reported spiking offences where the victim was male has risen steadily since 2021, from around 23 per cent to a third last year.

Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing

Iran dismissed Donald Trump's threats as 'empty talk' as Washington prepares to ramp up economic pressure on Tehran.

Officials logged one meeting almost every two working days on average with just five companies - Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft.

Mother-of-two Carly Clarkson, 37, from Watford, was left horrified when she discovered her three-month-old daughter Josephine covered in blood.

The most ridiculous calls to the service have been revealed, and they range from the silly to the absurd.

Liam Nebel, 18, was charged on Sunday afternoon after an 'attacker with a sword' stormed Brinell School in Fagersta on Friday, just days after classes had started.

Kunal Chandude, 19, is believed to have approached the cliff edge, threatening to take his own life following a dispute over the purchase of an iPhone.

The suspect, 34, was travelling on a train to France when Kent Police apprehended him on Sunday. He remains in custody.

A man was stabbed to death and another was injured in an attack by a harbour in the early hours of Sunday.

Annmarie O'Reilly, 30, was found injured in a house in the Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully on Friday.

Woods, 50, was detained on March 27 after flipping his SUV while trying to overtake a truck and trailer at high speed in the billionaire enclave of Jupiter Island.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been urged to shut the route for good over fears it is 'riddled with abuse'.

He teased the new trim in a short Instagram video on Sunday morning and fans will get to see it in all its glory as City take on Bournemouth in their Premier League opener.

The Chinese-made 'monster vessels' are sourced online for £1,416 - costing smuggling gangs just £6 per passenger, despite receiving payments of up to £2,000 from desperate migrants.

A class action filed this week accused Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to fuel its AI products without licensing or obtaining permission, reports Engadget: Earlier this month, Twitch Support posted on X that it added an option to opt out of "having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon." Shortly after, Twitch hosted an episode of its recurring Patch Notes stream where Mike Minton, the company's chief product officer, said "if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in," when asked by a viewer why the Twitch settings for AI training aren't opt-in but instead enabled by default, requiring users to opt out if they don't want to participate. Now, the latest class action lawsuit claims that Twitch and Amazon committed a breach of contract when the companies decided to use its streamers as "free training stock for separate commercial AI products."

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The Russian acrobat, who holds the world record for most seated aerial hoop rotations, is seeking $16.75 million from Cirque du Soleil after she suffered devastating injuries from her fall.

First Lady Melania Trump joined her husband, President Donald Trump, for her second public appearance of the week at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, DC on Sunday.