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The specific type of water you drink could increase your risk of Parkinson's disease, a soon-to-be presented study from researchers in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona, has suggested.

British travellers have been plunged into chaos after Iranian strikes on the Middle East left them stranded in the region or unable to fly to their holiday destinations.

Weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and wegovy have become popular in recent years with millions of people taking them to lose weight.

Accenture is acquiring Downdetector parent company Ookla from Ziff Davis in a $1.2 billion deal to bolster its network analytics and visibility tools for telecoms, hyperscalers, and enterprises. "The deal, which will transfer all of Ziff Davis's Connectivity division to Accenture, includes Ookla's Speedtest, Ekahau, and RootMetrics," notes The Register reports: "Modern networks have evolved from simple infrastructure into business-critical platforms," said Accenture CEO Julie Sweet in a canned statement. "Without the ability to measure performance, organizations cannot optimize experience, revenue, or security." Ookla is meant to let them do just that. Data captured at the network and device layer are used to enhance fraud prevention in banking, smart homes monitoring, and traffic optimization in retail, Accenture said. Ookla's platform, which lets user's test their own connectivity speed, captures more than 1,000 attributes per test, and provides the foundation for those analytics, Accenture said.

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There will be plenty of entertainment and great food and drinks

Kaila Farmer angered her boss after she announced she was pregnant and presented a doctor's note saying her nausea and vomiting meant she could not work from the office

Birdwatchers in Essex were treated to a remarkable sight when a white-tailed eagle was spotted near Colchester

Birdwatchers in Essex were treated to a remarkable sight when a white-tailed eagle was spotted near Colchester

I recently switched energy supplier from SSE to Octopus as it offers an attractive tariff for homes like mine that use heat pumps.

No more hiding in the server closet: Cyber ops mentioned alongside kinetic warfare as critical to conflict

In what may be the most public acknowledgment of its cyber operations capabilities to date, the Pentagon has admitted that cyber soldiers are playing a key role in its attacks on Iran. …

Anya Taylor-Joy, Willow Smith and Alexa Chung led the incredibly chic arrivals at the Dior Paris Fashion Week show in the French capital on Tuesday.

The war spread further on Monday, with Israel exchanging fire with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, US jets being downed in Kuwait and Qatar taking out Iranian fighter planes.

Washington has said they have sunk 11 naval ships operated by Tehran in the Gulf of Oman since the start of the war, releasing a video of a strike on an unidentified ship

Travellers have been warned that trains could be severely delayed or cancelled this evening (March 3)

The Chancellor claimed her growth plan was working but oil and gas prices have rocketed due to confict with Iran and will knock forecasts off course.

I'm cooking on a yacht in the middle of the ocean wearing only an apron, while on board guests mill about around me enjoying the sea views and party atmosphere.

Hossein Haidar, 18, is facing a hate crime charge after allegedly 'violently dragging' a man from his home in Watervliet, New York, following an argument about Pakistan and Afghanistan.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge was found to have adjudicated on a property dispute using fake judgements generated by artificial intelligence. The top court, which was responding to an appeal by the defendants, will now examine the ruling given by the lower court in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The Supreme Court called the case a matter of "institutional concern" and said fake AI-generated judgements had "a direct bearing on integrity of adjudicatory process." [...] Coming down sternly against the fake judgements, the top court last Friday stayed the lower court's order on the property dispute. It said the use of AI while making judgements was not simply "an error in decision making" but an act of "misconduct." "This case assumes considerable institutional concern, not because of the decision that was taken on the merits of the case, but about the process of adjudication and determination," the top court said. The court said it would examine the case in more detail and issued notices to the country's Attorney and Solicitor General, as well as the Bar Council of India.

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Initally, the crossing was intended be toll free for all, after costs for building it were recouped

Biblical scholars are warning that there are even more signs the end of the world is drawing near following America's attack on Iran, and the eerie parallels to battles in Scripture.