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How many siblings do you have? It shouldn't be a complicated question. Yet for me, it's one that elicits complicated feelings. For nine years I was an only child.

I realised something wasn't right when I lost it in the disabled toilet at a church playgroup session. My firstborn was potty-training at the time and had made a mess.

Could today be the day where Keir Starmer loses his grip on No10? Vote now and you'll find the final results in Monday's Morning Mail newsletter .

O'Brien, who plays Carrigstown's James Rafferty, had a small part in the 2015 film that kicked off Greek director Lanthimos's relationship with Element Pictures.

A dozen or so Dartmoor Hill Ponies are huddled in small groups on the misty moor before us, with tails swishing, nostrils flaring gently and tangled manes blowing in the breeze.

Born in Louisiana but raised in California , she won a beauty contest as a teenager that kickstarted her professional life in front of the cameras.

"There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device. "This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots." Almost all the innovations we regularly hear about — from cheaper, tougher electric-vehicle batteries to "Holy Grail" solid-state batteries — are about changing the chemistry of batteries. The promise of battery-tech 3-D printing (aka additive manufacturing) is simple: What if batteries could fill any available space, even structural elements of our gadgets, rather than always taking a rigid shape like a pouch or cylinder? The new approach has obvious appeal. The entire airframe of a drone could be filled with energy storage for increased range. Smartglasses could have sleek battery-packed frames, so they look like everyday eyewear rather than "Revenge of the Nerds" props. One of the biggest advantages of 3-D printing is that it works with any battery, regardless of its cell chemistry. It could advance today's lithium-ion as well as emerging sodium-ion and solid-state tech... Some [startups] are trying to use 3-D printing to create efficiencies in existing battery manufacturing systems. A brave handful of startups are pursuing radical new designs and approaches. They're starting with defense applications, where cost and scale are less of an issue... At Silicon Valley-based Sakuu... [r]ather than trying to 3-D-print whole batteries, the company is working on replacing one of battery manufacturing's biggest pain points, says Arwed Niestroj, Sakuu's chief operating officer, who is also a nuclear physicist and former head of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America. Existing battery assembly lines include football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents. This requires a huge amount of energy and is a significant contributor to manufacturing costs, a big reason EV batteries aren't cheaper. Sakuu's process, under development for years, uses additive manufacturing to lay down key battery components without solvents, eliminating the need for ovens, says Niestroj. Sakuu is currently working to commercialize this tech with a major battery manufacturer...

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This time last year I received a very surprising present from my husband: a pair of sawn-off denim shorts. Actually, very surprising doesn't begin to cover it.

Three-quarters have considered leaving the profession in the past year, with most blaming staffing shortages and safety concerns, the Royal College of Midwives said.

Tui Airways has been ranked among the worst airlines for flight delays in the UK.

Tui Airways has been ranked among the worst airlines for flight delays in the UK.

It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it

The couple were seen packing on the PDA during a leisurely stroll in the glistening city, and at one point she even jumped in his arms for a warm embrace.

Shamed 'fairy godmother' Jean O'Brien his living under a new identity in the West Country - and is a 'silver surfer' social midea influencer for the over sixties.

It seems there are no end to David Beckham's many talents as he once again showcased the impressive wares from his garden. 

Jeremy Clarkson is urging men to get checked for prostate cancer after surviving two brushes with death in less than a year.

Iceland supermarket boss Lord (Richard) Walker, who became Keir Starmer's 'cost of living czar' after defecting from the Tories, appears to be getting disillusioned.

Electrek reports: Tesla wants to sell modular AI data center hardware, according to a new trademark application for a product called "Megapod." The filing describes a complete, self-contained computing system for AI workloads... Tesla filed the "Megapod" trademark (serial number 99893717) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this month, through its longtime IP counsel. It's an intent-to-use application, meaning Tesla is claiming the name for a product it hasn't launched yet. The goods-and-services description is unusually specific for a trademark. Megapod covers "modular data center hardware systems for artificial intelligence computing, comprised of computer servers, computer hardware for artificial intelligence data processing, networking equipment, power distribution units, and cooling systems." It also covers "self-contained modular computing hardware systems for artificial intelligence workloads," integrated platforms sold as a single unit — an enclosure bundling compute, power distribution, and cooling — and downloadable software to monitor, manage, and optimize those systems. In plain terms: Tesla wants to sell a turnkey AI data center building block. Not a battery, not a chip on its own, but the full rack-and-room of servers, networking, power, and cooling that AI training and inference run on. Tesla's offering would have to compete with Nvidia's liquid-cooled, rack-scale systems that simulates a giant GPU, the article points out. But "The bigger issue is that Tesla has no merchant compute-hardware business to build on." Tesla's own AI training cluster, Cortex at Gigafactory Texas, runs on roughly 67,000 Nvidia H100-equivalent GPUs. In other words, Tesla is one of Nvidia's customers, not a competitor selling alternative hardware... Where Tesla does have a real AI-data-center business is power, not compute. Its Megapack and new Megablock energy storage products are selling into AI data centers as grid buffers — Musk's own xAI has bought roughly $1 billion of Megapacks to keep its training runs powered. That energy-storage strength is the one credible thread here. A Megapod that bundles Tesla's power electronics, thermal management, and the enclosure — the "shell" around the chips rather than the chips themselves — would at least sit adjacent to a business Tesla actually runs.

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The National Education Union (NEU) has called for Sir Keir Starmer to quit after polling found 72 per cent of its members believe his party has performed badly on schooling.

The celebrities who call this riverside idyll home include Sir David Attenborough and Tom Holland - but mingling with famous names comes at a price, writes Sarah Tucker.