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More than £100 worth of items were stolen from the independent children's boutique while one of the stores owners watched the thieves live on CCTV.

Essex Highways has been using the new Roadmender system to repair potholes more quickly and effectively.

Essex Highways has been using the new Roadmender system to repair potholes more quickly and effectively.

No word yet on when any homegrown hardware production begins

Texas fabless chip firm Cirrus Logic has announced a new partnership with GlobalFoundries on next-generation bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) and gallium nitride (GaN) parts.…

In a pair of class actions filed this week, passengers from each coast quibbled with United Airlines and Delta Air Lines' policies charging extra for window seats that are not actually beside windows, instead offering a view of a blank aircraft wall. From a report: "Delta indicated to the plaintiff and class members that the particular seats they chose had a 'window'; even though Delta knew full well they did not," the plaintiffs taking on Delta said in an 18-page complaint filed in federal court in New York, accusing the airline of false advertising and deceptive business practices. Half of Delta's fleet of nearly 1,000 aircraft comprises Boeing 737s, Boeing 757s and Airbus A321s -- all of which have at least one wall-adjacent seat with no window, according to the plaintiffs. It's where vertical air conditioning riser ducts are located, making putting a window there impossible, the competing Alaska Airlines explains on its website. But unlike Alaska and others, the plaintiffs complain, Delta advertises the seats as having a window, offering them as a "window seat" option on its seat map during checkout.

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Gorillaz has been a mainstay of the music scene for more than two decades, but fans are still none the wiser about how the virtual band actually got its name after 27 years

It is one of the largest ice masses on Earth, covering an area of roughly 760,000 square miles. But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is on the verge of a 'catastrophic' collapse, scientists have warned.

A Londoner shocked fellow passengers when she started an unlikely beauty treatment on her commute. Many claimed the brazen act could have caused people nearby to 'pass out'.

LLMs flop at selling Fair Trade – unless you're a true believer

Interview  Large language models stumble when trying to sway buyers with moral arguments, according to research from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Sakarya Business School.…

Epic boss brands the changes 'malicious compliance'

Google has announced changes to its Play Store rules in an effort to appease the European Commission and dodge Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines.…

Photographs have revealed the medieval-sounding procedures that men are undergoing to try and become taller.

The council said it would be carrying out cleaning to get rid of the smell soon

The 44-year-old married man attacked the teenager, who was sitting next to him, after she fell asleep during the nine-hour journey from Mumbai to Zurich.

OLIVER HOLT: It takes a special kind of self-entitled, spoiled, arrogant, disrespectful man to make the despotic rulers of Saudi Arabia, the owners of Newcastle United, look like the good guys.

In a letter to the Prime Minister, the charities outlined how provisions under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act might see them lose out on critical funding.

To block a protest completely would require the Home Secretary's authority and approval

Hmmm, state ownership of private corps... what does that remind us of?

The US government is considering taking a stake in Intel and other semiconductor companies that benefit from CHIPS Act funding, according to officials from the Trump administration. The move follows SoftBank's $2 billion investment in the faltering chip giant.…

A British man witnessed the murder of his online gaming friend after she was stabbed to death in her own home, Finnish police have revealed. 

Rita Ora and her husband Taika Waititi were the latest stars to surprise fans, as they lay out a platter of cigarettes for their A-list celebrity friends to enjoy at the director's 50th birthday party in Ibiza.

An analysis of Rotten Tomatoes data reveals average Tomatometer scores have climbed steadily since Fandango's 2016 acquisition of the review aggregation platform. The average number of reviewers per mainstream film release increased by 40 to 70 critics following the purchase. New additions to the critic pool include smaller outlets such as Denerstein Unleashed and KKFI-FM Kansas City. Prior to 2016, critic and audience scores demonstrated stable correlation year-over-year. Post-acquisition data shows the two metrics diverged sharply as Tomatometer ratings rose. Fandango, America's largest movie-ticketing platform, is partially owned by NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery. In 2023 Vulture reported PR firms court reviewers from smaller outlets to secure higher Tomatometer scores before film releases.

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