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George Clooney showed he hasn't lost his mischievous side as he put on a cheeky display at the star-studded London premiere of his new Netflix film Jay Kelly on Friday evening.

AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product

OpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.…

Big Blue may have missed the boat on being one of the big AI model builders, but its IBM Research division has built its own enterprise-grade family of models and its server and research divisions have plenty of experience building accelerators and supercomputers. …

IBM Ships Homegrown “Spyre” Accelerators, Embraces Anthropic For AI Push was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

A new book, by Wall Street Journal reporter Saabira Chaudhuri, traces how disposability became a deliberate business strategy rather than an accidental consequence of modern commerce. The book, titled "Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic," emerged from her reporting on how plastic bottles transformed bottled water from an occasional restaurant treat into an everyday staple. Excerpts from a Bloomberg story: After World War II, the plastics industry made a conscious pivot. Lloyd Stouffer, an industry figure, openly said plastics should move from durable goods to disposables because companies make more money selling something a thousand times than once. The industry sold consumers on hygiene, convenience, modernity and easier household management. McDonald's dropped polystyrene clamshells in the late 1980s under activist pressure but simply swapped one single-use product for another. Paper containers still cannot be recycled well once food soaks in. The old diaper-service model disappeared. Companies collected, washed and returned cloth diapers like the milkman, but plastics helped kill that business model. Chaudhuri argues companies built their businesses on disposability and will not change unless regulation forces everyone to move together. Executives admit that if they launch a reusable product but competitors do not, they lose market share and face shareholder backlash. Packaging standardization would improve recycling economics. Colored plastics like red shampoo bottles cannot be recycled in a closed loop and are down-cycled into gray products like pipes.

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She has described the challenges of having a neurodiverse child

Shocking footage of the wreckage shows the vehicle sit with flashing lights amidst the debris at the burial ground in Ripple Road, Barking.

The undercover agent has been unmasked by the Mail as international paedophile Edward Gratwick, 68.

Nella, 28, will be joined by online star Harry Pinero, 34, in episode Find The Foreigner, which will launch on the broadcaster's YouTube channel this weekend.

The actress, 60, has joked she and the Achy Breaky Heart singer, 67, are in 'constant danger of choking on hair balls'.

There is everything from a maize maze to tribute music to enjoy

A State of Emergency has been declared for more than nine million Americans ahead of hurricane-like conditions set to batter the coast.

There is nothing more frustrating then pulling out your once-pristine white shirt only to see it graying. But according to experts, the solution is refreshingly simple and sitting in your kitchen cupboard.

Google is introducing a new Chrome browser feature for Android and desktop users that automatically turns off notifications for websites that you're already ignoring. From a report: Chrome's Safety Check feature already provides similar functionality for camera access and location tracking permissions. This new auto-revocation feature builds on a similar Android feature that already makes it easier for Chrome users to unsubscribe from website notifications they don't care about with a single tap. The feature doesn't revoke notifications for any web apps installed on the device, and permissions will only be disabled for sites that send a lot of notifications that users rarely engage with. Less than one percent of all web notifications in Chrome currently receive any interaction from users, according to Google, often making them more distracting than helpful.

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Ciprian Ilie, 44, was found guilty today of assisting an offender and preventing the lawful and decent burial of Cumali Turham, 46.

According to local reports, Ghuman suffered a heart attack while he was being treated at a hospital for a shoulder injury, which lead to his tragic death on Thursday afternoon.

A friend of Charlie Kirk released more text messages from a leaked group chat where the Turning Point leader raged about 'bullying' Jewish donors.

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US datacenters are experiencing a significant shift toward coal-powered energy due to elevated natural gas prices and rapidly growing electricity demand. From a report: According to a research note from financial services firm Jefferies, datacenter operators are racing to connect new capacity to the electrical grid, with accelerated load growth expected during the 2026-2028 period. This spike in demand is driving an unexpected resurgence in coal generation, which has increased nearly 20 percent year-to-date. The research note, seen by The Register, states: "We raise our estimate for coal generation by ~11 percent (driven by higher capacity factors), and staying elevated through 2027 on favorable fuel pricing vs gas (particularly for existing fleet)." Warnings emerged last year that rising energy demand from the proliferation of data centers in the US risked outstripping available generation capacity, potentially extending the operational life of coal-fired power plants. Further reading: India Needs Coal For the Next Decade and Nobody Wants To Say It.

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The Australian actress, 49, looked incredible in a white strapless mini dress on Friday as she attended the Jay Kelly film premiere in London on Friday.

Afghani national Fayaz Khan, who has an AK47 tattooed on his cheek, made a threat to kill the politician in a 'sinister and menacing' video posted on the social media platform last year.