Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News Johner Images/Getty Images More than three-quarters of pensioners will receive the winter fuel payment this year after Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed a major policy U-turn. Nine million pensioners in England and Wales with an annual income of £35,000 or less will now be eligible. The payment, worth up to…
Living with sensitive skin means adjusting your skincare routine to incorporate only the products that won’t agitate your skin. It’s not that easy to figure out when it comes to redness outbreaks or situations when you need to wear sunscreen (one of the top skin irritants). This guide provides the skincare routine examples you could…
Compliance isn’t optional. But it’s never been more complex. The rise of containers has revolutionized modern infrastructure—enabling faster innovation and greater scalability. But with this transformation comes a new wave of compliance challenges. PCI DSS 4.0 introduces stricter requirements for both vulnerability management and file integrity monitoring (FIM) in dynamic environments like Kubernetes and containerized…
Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited states decay rapidly once the excitation is removed, limiting their practical applications. A team of researchers from Harvard University and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now demonstrated an approach to stabilize these fleeting states and probe their quantum…
GPUs are a precious resource; they are both short in supply and much more costly than traditional CPUs. They are also highly adaptable to many different use cases. Organizations building or adopting generative AI use GPUs to run simulations, run inference (both for internal or external usage), build agentic workloads, and run data scientists’ experiments….
An egg mass with adult termites of the invasive Coptotermes gestroi species T Chouvenc, UF/IFAS Florida’s newest termite is two for the price of one, but nobody’s celebrating. Two species of globally invasive, timber-chewing insects are interbreeding there, creating hybrid colonies that could produce incredibly hardy termites that threaten buildings and forests alike. The findings are…
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Being your own boss might seem potentially stressful, but self-employed women appear to have better heart health than those toiling for a company, a new study says. Women working for themselves had lower rates of obesity, physical inactivity, poor diet and sleeplessness, researchers…
A Ford mustang is seen at a used car dealership in Montebello, California on May 5, 2025. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images DETROIT — Used vehicle prices last month eased from their recent high in April as consumers who may have needed a vehicle but feared price hikes due to tariffs flocked…
Chris Mason Political editor Becky Morton Political reporter “Is Liz Truss still in the party?” asks Kemi Badenoch Kemi Badenoch has insisted she is “going to get better” as Conservative leader, saying she is not “shy about self-criticism”. It comes after shadow chancellor Mel Stride defended his boss earlier this week following criticism of her…
By calling on troops to suppress protests in Los Angeles on Sunday, Donald Trump has shown he is willing to put the country on a war footing — and test the boundaries of executive power — to achieve his goals. For the first time in decades, the National Guard was deployed against citizens on domestic…
