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America's garbage trucks can do more than just collect trash, reports Newsweek. They may also help identify code violations using AI. Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation trucks with AI-powered cameras that would photograph properties as crews complete their normal collection routes. The system would have been designed to identify potential issues such as overgrown lawns, peeling paint, and illegal dumping, and to flag violations so the city staff can review them later before taking enforcement action... However, in a statement on July 13, Cape Coral officials said it would not be moving forward with the camera technology, citing cost issues and insufficient benefits. "Claims suggesting that this technology would automatically identify, cite or fine residents are inaccurate," the statement also noted... Cape Coral officials say that a camera system in the future would assist — not replace — human code enforcement officers, and employees will review any AI-generated alerts before violations are issued. "Even if such a system were to be considered in the future, any potential code violations would require review and verification by a Code Compliance Officer before any enforcement action could be taken," the organization wrote. But Cape Coral, Florida "is not the first city to explore the technology," the article notes. AI imaging systems developed by City Detect have already been deployed in several municipalities. According to the company's published case studies, Stockton, California, used the platform to analyze nearly 40,000 parcels, capturing almost 200,000 images while identifying thousands of potential code issues. Cathedral City, California, has also used the technology to assist code enforcement, while Dallas approved funding for a similar program pending final implementation. Thanks to Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the article.

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The Royal Family's future relies on the William and Charles having a 'joint approach' when it comes to Harry's visits, a royal expert has claimed.

Home is the hero. He returns in spectral form but the welcome is substantial, loud in cheers and heartfelt in word and tone.

The 47-year-old Dawson's Creek alum and artist, 37, attended a Ferragamo pop-up event in Bridgehampton, New York on Friday in coordinating navy blue outfits.

The former UTV and BBC Radio Ulster presenter conducted many high-profile interviews, including with an eight-year-old Rory McIlroy as the young golfer chipped balls into a washing machine.

The woman who used a plastic doll to fake being a new mother has insisted she only resorted to the deception because she could not reveal she suffered a miscarriage.

The pub features in the Domesday book - which could make it almost 1000 years old!

Police have launched a manhunt for 21-year-old suspect Abdul B, after a van was rammed into a crowd. One person has been killed, and 16 others are injured.

You've worked hard and made sacrifices in your life. Now it's time to enjoy your time and put yourself before your children or other dependants. So says Caroline Tapken who is semi-retired.

From the site tech-news site XDA Developers: The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them more urgently than perhaps at any point in its history. Anyone keeping track of the pricing trends will know that memory prices have climbed into the stratosphere on the back of AI infrastructure's relentless demand, and every consumer device that depends on RAM has traveled from inflated to unaffordable, quarter after quarter, with almost no relief in sight. Which is exactly why a story out of Shenzhen is worth paying attention to, even in its current rumor phase. According to the details circulated by various semiconductor analysts on X, the Chinese government, DRAM maker SwaySure and Chinese tech giant Huawei have partnered to set up a 12-inch memory production plant. If the reports hold up, it could change memory economics for years to come, but not necessarily in the way you'd hope... SwaySure itself is a known player. The company was registered in Shenzhen in March 2022, is reportedly backed by municipal government, and appears alongside Huawei on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, suggesting Washington has realized the connection between the two entities. Although, that's also where the story becomes a little less straightforward. None of these claims have been independently confirmed, and many of the technical details circulating online trace back to a single X account. Huawei has previously denied operating the wider network of state-backed fabs that analysts have reported. Even the widely quoted figure of 140,000 wafers per month isn't new, and public records indicate SwaySure's production line is already operational. What gives the report weight, then, is the fact that Huawei has spent years building this kind of domestic semiconductor ecosystem through partners that appear to operate independently. The rationale that analysts on X keep revisiting has little to do with consumer memory. Huawei's Ascend AI accelerators require high-bandwidth memory (HBM), and US export controls have all but cut Chinese entities from procuring HBM from Samsung or SK Hynix... Owning the supply outright solves a problem that purchasing power can't, which is why the DRAM push is read as a bid to secure captive HBM for Huawei's own silicon rather than to flood the market with cheaply manufactured DDR5... The catch, however, is the fact that most of this new and rejuvenated capacity is expected to be absorbed by China's own domestic demand, rather than to relieve the global shortage... This development does not seem to be an isolated incident, given the state of DRAM economics. CXMT, China's largest manufacturer of DRAM, is already running close to 265,000 wafer starts per month as of now as per analyst estimates, and is projected to hit 350,000 by the end of the year, bringing it within the touching distance of Micron's estimated 385,000.... [T]he oligopoly seems to be facing the first credible challenge to its capacity discipline in decades, and it seems to be coming from a country building fabs much faster than the competition could hope to match. Now, whether it tangibly impacts the consumer market economics in the time to come may be a story in its own right in a few years, but for now, for what it's worth, it's a new direction, and much of it feeds optimism.

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Paige Paul, the wife of American tennis star Tommy Paul, launched a blistering attack on a local Nantucket business over a sign they have in their store.

The Water singer, 24, hails from Johannesburg, South Africa , and has made history as the youngest African artist in history to win a Grammy Award.

Many councillors had passionately spoke for and against the motion, including Colchester’s Reform leader Andrew Harding.

A council meeting turned heated when a councillor claimed 'practicing Catholics and evangelical Christians' would feel they are entering a "hostile environment" if libraries display Pride flags.

Staff at the cafe say they are "flattered" to have been recognised

Many councillors had passionately spoke for and against the motion, including Colchester’s Reform leader Andrew Harding.

A council meeting turned heated when a councillor claimed 'practicing Catholics and evangelical Christians' would feel they are entering a "hostile environment" if libraries display Pride flags.

With the Love Island 2026 final around the corner, there's set to be a new group of wannabe influencers leaving the villa on Monday. 

The singer, 37, had been facing trial later this year after he hit a former friend twice over the head on the dancefloor at the Tape private members' club in Mayfair in 2023.

The victim, a man in his 30s, was treated for stab wounds to the leg after the incident in Greek Street, Soho, at around 4.30pm on Thursday.