Can any nation protect against a Ukraine-style drone smuggling attack?
An image taken by a Ukrainian drone during Operation Spiderweb UPI/Alamy On 1 June, Ukraine…
Gemini, Search, Pixel and more
Simplify the cooking process 8. Rely on Gemini for Home as your right-hand helper Gemini for Home replaces Google Assistant on your smart displays and speakers and also upgrades devices in your home like your cameras and doorbells. There are plenty of ways to use it for holiday hosting. Just say “Hey Google,” then ask…
Plea of non-smoker from Hastings diagnosed with lung cancer at 37
Mark NormanSouth East health correspondent Mark Norman/BBC Jules Fielder was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer aged 37 A non-smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 37 is campaigning for better awareness of the condition in young women. Jules Fielder, from Hastings, East Sussex, has secured a meeting with Health Secretary Wes…
5 Live News Specials – That Time of the Month: Ovarian cancer
Available for over a year Leila Nathoo sits in for Naga Munchetty. She speaks to Hannah Lane about being diagnosed with ovarian cancer and her life living with the condition. She’s also joined by regular experts Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Christine Ekechi. First broadcast on BBC 5 Live on 18 November 2025 Programme WebsiteShow…
Deploy geospatial agents with Foursquare Spatial H3 Hub and Amazon SageMaker AI
Organizations have used geospatial machine learning (ML) for property risk assessment, disaster response, and infrastructure planning. These systems worked well but couldn’t scale beyond specialized use cases. Each question required multiple geospatial datasets, each with its own model and often its own workflow, limiting these capabilities to a handful of high-value use cases at the…
Scientists reveal kissing began millions of years before humans
A new investigation led by the University of Oxford reports that kissing may have originated in the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes roughly 21 million years ago. The research, published on November 19 in Evolution and Human Behavior, also indicates that Neanderthals likely practiced kissing. Kissing is seen in many animal species,…
What is the UK Covid inquiry and how does it work?
Getty Images The Covid Inquiry’s second report, into political decisions during the pandemic, will be published on Thursday. In July 2024, the inquiry’s first report said the UK’s flawed preparations had led to more deaths and greater economic damage than there should have been. Just under 227,000 people died in the UK from Covid between…
How Wipro PARI accelerates PLC code generation using Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Rejin Surendran from Wipro Enterprises Limited and Bakrudeen K from ShellKode. In manufacturing environments, industrial automation engineers face a significant challenge: how to rapidly convert complex process requirements into Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) ladder text code. This traditional, manual process typically requires 3-4 days per query, creating bottlenecks in production…
A drug already in trials may stop chemotherapy nerve damage
Chemotherapy appears to activate a stress-sensing system inside immune cells. According to new research from Weill Cornell Medicine and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, this reaction sets off inflammation and nerve injury, which may help explain why many people undergoing cancer treatment experience serious and often long-lasting pain. Up to half of all individuals…
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces, humanity would suffer. Musk had…
Simple amino acid supplement greatly reduces Alzheimer’s damage
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive disorder that damages nerve cells in the brain and is one of the main causes of dementia around the world. Current treatments cannot cure the condition. Although antibody-based drugs targeting amyloid β (Aβ) have recently become available, their benefits remain modest. These therapies can also be expensive and may…
