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For some, the best part of a flight is being able to watch the world go by out of the window and gaze at their destination as they approach for landing.

As the late night host gave an emotional monologue, the show's crew held their breath as they wondered how the audience would react.

Travelling to and from a different time zone may be exciting, but it can also be exhausting to adjust. 

Michael Jackson's accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, are seeking a $400 million payout, over accusations that he sexually assaulted them as children.

Lord Mandelson's own firm rushed through his 'sacking' just minutes after he was fired as Britain's ambassador to Washington, as Global Counsel's clients feared being 'tarnished'.

More than half of Brits (53 per cent) admit to being fascinated by the royals and their long-running soap opera, a study by Jason's Sourdough has revealed.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When the COVID-19 pandemic forced kids to stay home, educators flocked to VMware, and thousands of school districts adopted virtualization. The technology became a solution for distance learning during the pandemic and after, when events such as bad weather and illness can prevent children from physically attending school. However, the VMware being sold to K-12 schools today differs from the VMware that existed before and during the pandemic. Now a Broadcom business, the platform features higher prices and a business strategy that favors big spenders. This has created unique problems for educational IT departments juggling restrictive budgets and multiple technology vendors with children's needs. Ars Technica recently spoke with an IT director at a public school district in Indiana. The director requested anonymity for themself and the district out of concern about potential blowback. The director confirmed that the district has five schools and about 3,000 students. The district started using VMware's vSAN, a software-defined storage offering, and the vSphere virtualization platform in 2019. The Indiana school system bought the VMware offerings through a package that combined them with VxRail, which is hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) hardware that Dell jointly engineered with VMware. However, like many of VMware customers, the Indiana school district was priced out of VMware after Broadcom's acquisition of the company. The IT director said the district received a quote that was "three to six" times higher than expected. This came as the school district is looking to manage changes in education-related taxes and funding over the next few years. As a result, the district's migration from VMware is taking IT resources from other projects, including ones aimed at improving curriculum. For instance, the Indiana district has been trying to bolster its technology curriculum, the IT director said. One way is through a summer employment program for upperclassmen that teaches how to use real-world IT products, like VMware and Cisco Meraki technologies. The district previously relied on VMware-based virtual machines (VMs) for creating "very easily and accessible" test environments for these students. But the school is no longer able to provide that opportunity, creating a learning "barrier," as the IT director put it. The IT director told Ars that dealing with a migration could be "catastrophic in that that's too much work for one person," adding: "It could be a chokehold, essentially, to where they're going to be basically forced into switching platforms -- maybe before they were anticipating -- or paying exorbitant prices that have skyrocketed for absolutely no reason. Nothing on the software side has changed. It's the same software. There's no features being added. Nobody's benefiting from the higher prices on the education side."

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It comes after Celtic warned fans ahead of their Europa League trip to Serbia, stressing that green and white strips should not be worn in an around the city.

The expensive outburst was described in a newly-released book penned by the late star's mother Priscilla Presley , 80, titled Softly, As I Leave You: Live After Elvis.

EXCLUSIVE: Despite understaffing, many freshly qualified nurses are struggling to find jobs, with some turning to pub or bar jobs. Here, they tell the Daily Mail why.

Ahead of the Labour conference this weekend, he refused to rule out a leadership bid and said he would be happy to play 'any role' as he criticised the Prime Minister's approach.

The grim announcement came after remains believed to belong to Decker were discovered in the dense Washington wilderness.

Catherine Nash, 74, and Nigel Fleming, 63, climbed onto the podium display at Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush and unfurled a Just Stop Oil banner.

The Daily Mail broke the news that Dani, 29, one of the show's favourites, had to bow out on Tuesday, after fracturing her ankle during a training rehearsal on Friday.

The craze dolls - which can retail for hundreds of pounds - were being openly marketed as Labubu dolls in two West End stores visited by trading standards.

Chipzilla can't say it's changed much, but could be a handy backup to TSMC

After a painful breakup and a bout of financial turmoil, Intel is looking to rekindle the relationship with its old flame Apple.…

Moviegoers have been left outraged after a popular horror film was edited using AI to alter a same-sex wedding.

In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered the online world with pop-ups requesting consent to cookies. From a report: It's the kind of simplification ordinary Europeans can get behind. European rulemakers in 2009 revised a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are "strictly necessary" to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice. "Too much consent basically kills consent. People are used to giving consent for everything, so they might stop reading things in as much detail, and if consent is the default for everything, it's no longer perceived in the same way by users," said Peter Craddock, data lawyer with Keller and Heckman. Cookie technology is now a focal point of the EU executive's plans to simplify technology regulation. Officials want to present an "omnibus" text in December, scrapping burdensome requirements on digital companies. On Monday, it held a meeting with the tech industry to discuss the handling of cookies and consent banners.

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The actor, who stars in the upcoming film, was joined by his co-star Emily Blunt for the glamorous event.

Tasked with presenting his first collection for Gucci at Milan Fashion Week, the former creative director of Balenciaga invited guests including Gwyneth Paltrow, Demi Moore and Lila Moss to watch a film.