Netflix says it has used visual effects created by generative artificial intelligence (AI) on screen for the first time in one of its original TV shows. The streaming giant’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos said AI, which produces videos and images based on prompts, was used to create a scene of a building collapsing in the Argentine […]
Voting reforms and ‚Diane Abbott suspended‘
BBC Prime minister’s plan to lower the voting age to 16 is dominating the papers on Friday, with the Daily Mirror declaring it a „historic ballot box reform“. „Votes as 16 as Starmer panics over Reform“ says the headline of the Daily Telegraph, as Labour unveiled its accelerated plan in Parliament on Thursday evening. Under […]
Unique ice, 1.5m year old, to be melted to unlock mystery
Georgina Rannard Climate and science correspondent Reporting fromBritish Antarctic Survey, Cambridge PNRA/IPEV The end of the ice cores are a 1.5 million year or even older time capsule An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital information about Earth’s […]
Why Labour had little choice but to suspend Diane Abbott again
Political parties, like the rest of us, are forever confronting choices. But, also like the rest of us, sometimes those choices are rather limited if maintaining consistency is seen to be important. It is this that lies at the heart of the latest chapter in the long running saga of Diane Abbott and the Labour […]
US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation
Getty Images Lawmakers in the US have passed the country’s first major national cryptocurrency legislation. It is a major milestone for the once fringe industry, which has been lobbying Congress over regulation for years and poured millions into last year’s election, backing candidates that included Donald Trump. The bill sets up a regulatory regime for […]
How India became a french fry superpower
Priti Gupta Technology Reporter Jitesh Patel Jitesh Patel’s farm business has prospered since switching to potatoes French fries turned around the fortunes of Jitesh Patel. He comes from a family of farmers in Gujarat in the northwest of India. Traditionally they grew cotton, but the returns were poor. Droughts in 2001 and 2002 made the […]
Stricter checks will block some shoppers
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images Shoppers using buy now, pay later (BNPL) will need to pass stricter affordability checks under new rules coming into force next July. It means some shoppers will be refused this type of credit and the ability to splash out on something potentially unaffordable in a few clicks […]
Residents have ‚had enough‘ of port stenches
Eimear Flanagan BBC News NI BBC Liz Weir and her husband moved into their dream home four years ago but she said they have been plagued by the smell of compacted rubbish People living in a County Down beauty spot have „had enough“ of industrial stenches coming from Warrenpoint Port, campaigners have said. Liz Weir […]
Ethan Ives Griffiths‘ murderers are ‚evilest people on Earth‘, dad says
Will Griffiths claims he warned Flintshire social services his son Ethan, 2, who was killed by his grandparents, was not safe with them The father of a toddler murdered by his grandparents said he held his son as his life support was switched off and has branded his killers the „evilest people on Earth“. Ethan […]
Aberdeen woman discovers hundreds of bats living in her home
Rachel Bell BBC Scotland News BBC Anne-Marie Murchie says she can’t sleep at night because of the noise made by the bats A woman has been forced to sleep in her car after discovering hundreds of bats roosting in her home – and being told there is nothing she can do to remove them. Anne-Marie […]