The amount of time off and pay new parents can get after the birth of a child will be looked at in a “landmark” review, the government says. Ministers said they wanted to modernise the system across paternity, maternity and shared parental leave, which campaigners said had been “overlooked for years”. Campaign group The Dad…
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian posted a short video of his late mother hugging him, which soon garnered tens of millions of views. Not because the video was a time capsule of a long-ago moment, but because it created it based on what had only been a still image. Ohanian used the new AI video generation…
BBC There’s a saying that Robert F Kennedy Jr is very fond of. He used it on the day he was confirmed as US health secretary. “A healthy person has a thousand dreams, a sick person only has one,” he said as he stood in the Oval Office. “60% of our population has only one…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the leaving do to mark the departure of Rav Athwal, the former Treasury official who wrote Labour’s 2024 manifesto, there were speeches by various Cabinet ministers, but it was Ed Miliband who stole the…
Getty Images Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has officially been listed as questionable for the Commissioner’s Cup championship game on Tuesday with a left groin injury. The Fever, who are in the championship for the first time in franchise history, may have to take on the defending champion Minnesota Lynx without their best player. “We still…
Guess Jeans is set to open its first store in mainland Asia, in Tokyo, on July 4. Guess Jeans opens first mainland Asia flagship in Tokyo. – Guess Jeans Located in the Jingūmae Neighbourhood, the store blends Japanese and Californian design influences to reflect the brand’s roots while embracing Tokyo’s dynamic fashion culture. Spanning four-stories,…
Amazon SageMaker Inference has been a popular tool for deploying advanced machine learning (ML) and generative AI models at scale. As AI applications become increasingly complex, customers want to deploy multiple models in a coordinated group that collectively process inference requests for an application. In addition, with the evolution of generative AI applications, many use…
MediaTek’s Kompanio Ultra makes a rare appearance, challenging the usual CPU suspects in laptops Lightweight and long-lasting, but ChromeOS limits serious work beyond web and Android apps Lenovo Chromebook Plus’s $649 price tag puts it alongside Windows laptops with broader software support and faster chips Lenovo’s latest Chromebook Plus (14″, 10) has introduced something unusual:…
Getty Images Parents are being prevented from vaccinating their children because of obstacles such as difficulty booking appointments and a lack of reminders on what jabs are needed and when, a report suggests. Child health experts say “practical or logistical reasons” are discouraging families more often than fears over the vaccines. Vaccine uptake in the…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China has been left off the top tier of the British government’s new register to track “covert foreign influence” as UK ministers seek to rebuild relations with Beijing in their pursuit of growth. Britain’s new foreign…
