More than 10 years ago, I filmed my kids for a report on the impact of screens on young minds. My eldest daughter was six at the time, her twin sisters nearly three. They didn’t have their own devices – Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube were beyond their imagination. TikTok hadn’t even been invented. Yet now…
The petrol forecourts giant founded in Blackburn by brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa will next week kick off formal plans for a $9bn (Β£6.7bn) US stock market listing. Sky News has learnt that EG Group, about 25% of which is owned by each of the brothers, will hold a beauty parade of banks in London…
Boris Johnson has warned the Conservatives will not win the next election by “bashing the green agenda”. Under Kemi Badenoch, the Tories have vowed to repeal the Climate Change Act – and scrap an “impossible” commitment to reach net zero by 2050 because it risks “bankrupting” the UK. Politics Hub: Latest updates from Westminster But…
The average person now has Β£38 less to spend each month after tax than they did at the end of 2024, following three consecutive quarters of falling UK living standards. The government made “improving living standards across all every part of the UK” one of their most high profile targets to achieve before the next…
Wearing size 17 shoes and standing 7-foot-3, Cherif Millogo is under the basket holding up his arms and touching the rim without leaving the ground. The rest of the βtinyβ people in the St. Francis High gym are gawking in awe at his 7-9 wingspan. That includes 6-8 head coach Todd Wolfson, who has twice…
Before trade rumors heated up and dream scenarios were briefly envisioned, before the Dodgers were linked to a string of big names who all wound up anywhere but Los Angeles, the teamβs front office foreshadowed what proved to be a rather straightforward, unremarkable trade deadline on Thursday afternoon. βThis group is really talented,β general manager…
When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness – including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test. Yes, AIs run vending machines now, under the watchful eyes of researchers at Anthropic and AI thinktank Andon Labs….
Diane Keaton, who died Saturday at 79, is one of cinemaβs most legendary actors. She played some of the most recognizable roles of the late 20th century, and blazed a trail for generations of women to come. Hereβs a list of Keatonβs 10 most important films, presented in alphabetical order. Weβll leave the ranking to…
PITTSBURGHΒ βΒ It was a pivotal moment, in a pivotal game, in whatβs become a pivotal week for the Dodgers in the National League West standings. Which, rather predictably given their recently floundering form, meant they found a new way to mess it all up. In the top of the second inning on Wednesday night at PNC…
From today, digital veteran cards are available for ex-members of the armed services – the first step in the digitisation of almost every form of ID. No, this isn’t the controversial “mandatory” right to work checks announced recently – more on that later – but it is part of the same programme for pretty much…