From blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Raiders of the Lost Ark to historical dramas like Lincoln and Schindler's List, here are the 10 best Steven Spielberg films. https://bit.ly/4oQP9IZ
Ugandan wildlife authorities have reintroduced southern white rhinos into the Kidepo Valley National Park, a remote protected area where they were once poached into extinction. https://wapo.st/4lNUxLl
I just signed this petition calling for a better deal with the EU for British businesses who have been damaged by Brexit. You can add your name as well here: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/business-rep...
Tell the government: British businesses need a better deal with the EU
Sign our petition calling on the government to negotiate concrete improvements to our ability to trade with the EU
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AI doesn't know 'no' - and that's a huge problem for medical bots. It means they can’t distinguish images labelled as showing a disease from images labelled as not showing the disease.
AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots
Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showing the disease
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60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang
60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles & Fritz Lang
During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled fiction. These films were set in dark locations and shot in a black & white aesthetic that fi...
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Nicușor Dan won the Romanian presidential election with 53.6% of the vote. A divided country map, but a clear majority 🇷🇴
Why is Labour doing this? There are many peer reviewed studies showing net-migration has an unalloyed positive impact on economies. It is a nakedly political move to appeal to the far right and Little Englanders. It won't work AND will make us all poorer www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic reactions, and now we have evidence it also works in adults
Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults with the allergy
Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic reactions, and now we have evidence it also works in adults
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Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder
Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder
In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller. A historian of fascism (then at Yal...
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8/ Here’s the thing: TIGER was never intended to be punitive. The creators said they developed the tool to help prison officials determine classes or counseling a prisoner might need to help *prevent* them from landing back behind bars.
The official poster for Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck ✨ The film will be released in theaters this June.
Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol
Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol
A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network formerly known as Twitter. Today, Bluesky’s social network has grown to over 33 million users, while the technology it’s built upon — the AT Protocol (or ATProto […]
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The French delicacy foie gras could be made more ethically thanks to a technique that replicates the way fats are metabolised in force-fed birds, although the process still depends on farmed animals.
Foie gras made without force-feeding thanks to molecular mimicry
Scientists have replicated the luxurious mouthfeel of foie gras using the liver and fat of ducks reared and slaughtered normally, avoiding the controversial techniques involved in traditional production
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This is really proof that if you show people what is good, they will come around
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Fascist Dictator. There are no two ways about it. Even our pretend US democracy is gone. As are checks and balances. As is the Republic. Are you wondering what you would be doing in 1933? Check what you are doing now.
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.
✈️ This article by Simple Flying used the #WaybackMachine to revisit early airline websites—simple, static pages with schedules and fares. As the web evolved, so did airlines' online presence. ➡️ simpleflying.com/1st-airline-... #AviationHistory #DigitalHistory #Preservation
What shapes are made by a needle as it spins? It's a question that has led to “the biggest breakthrough in mathematics of the current century," according to one mathematician.
'Amazing' spinning needle proof unlocks a whole new world of maths
What shapes are made by a spinning needle? This seemingly innocent problem has puzzled mathematicians for decades, but now a new proof is being called the biggest result of the current century as it could help solve many other tricky problems
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Graber’s shirt — which directly copies the style of a shirt that Zuckerberg wore onstage recently — says Mundus sine caesaribus. Or, “a world without Caesars.”
At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.
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“The real problem is that we’re operating with very little detailed data and knowledge of what’s happening” Researchers want firms to be more transparent about the electricity demands of artificial intelligence https://go.nature.com/4i2ZFZn
How much energy will AI really consume? The good, the bad and the unknown
Researchers want firms to be more transparent about the electricity demands of artificial intelligence.
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