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An anime version of Jesus Christ flipping tables. OpenAI employees performing in Hamilton costumes. News anchors discussing a story on television. A man doing a thirst-trap TikTok dance. Sam Altman — stealing GPUs on CCTV, listening to a business pitch, crying. Such were the contents of my feed on Sora, …

Rebekah WilsonBBC News NI BBC Flooding on Thursday caused this road to partially collapse in Benburb – more rain is expected throughout Friday Hundreds of schools have closed and events have been cancelled as Storm Amy brings disruption to Northern Ireland and Scotland. The Met Office has issued weather warnings …

Generative AI is wildly popular, with millions of users every day, so why do chatbots often get things so wrong? In part, it’s because they’re trained to act like the customer is always right. Essentially, it’s telling you what it thinks you want to hear.  While many generative AI tools …

McCaldon works with Republic of Ireland number one Brosnan at Everton. From his experience in the women’s game, McCaldon believes a host of factors have come together to develop the modern goalkeeper. Only in recent years have goalkeeping coaches worked with female players on a full-time basis. Former England international …

Marianna SpringSocial media investigations correspondent BBC The inquest into the death of Paloma Shemirani, the daughter of a British conspiracy theorist, was like something out of a TV show. As it unfolded, the medical world clashed with “Conspiracyland”, with experienced doctors questioned in courtrooms by people who believe in medical …

Steven McKenzieHighlands and Islands reporter Getty Images Will you swap a builder’s tea for a green tea on Friday night? When there’s a storm brewing outside, sometimes all you want to do is curl up on the sofa with a good cup of tea. But as Scotland braces itself for …

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have donated thousands of dollars to the family of the man believed to have carried out a deadly attack on one of their churches in Michigan, killing four people. Police said Thomas Sanford drove his truck into the church in …

British conservationist and primatologist Dame Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering studies of chimpanzees, has died aged 91. A post on her institute’s Instagram page said she died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday morning while in Los Angeles for a speaking tour. “Dr Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionised …

BBC Lindsay Brown studied at Falkirk college and now lectures there Lindsay Brown says she knows more than most how Scotland’s further education colleges are able to give people a second chance. Her older sister Vicky Hamilton disappeared in 1991, sparking one of the most high profile missing person cases …

Rob CameronPrague Correspondent, Prague Reuters Andrej Babis has taken inspiration from the US Maga movement, not least his party’s red caps saying “Strong Czechia” Czechs go to the polls on Friday and Saturday facing a deteriorating security situation in Europe and fears of Russian interference. Populist billionaire Andrej Babis, 71, …

The Conservatives have pledged to scrap Britain’s landmark climate change law that limits pollution, and replace it with a plan for “cheap and reliable” energy. Party leader Kemi Badenoch said scrapping the Climate Change Act – brought in by Labour in 2008 and later strengthened by Tory PM Theresa May …

Getty Images When China first announced a new visa targeting foreign professionals in science and technology in August it largely went unnoticed. But the K visa, which went into effect on Wednesday, was thrust into the public spotlight last week, when an Indian outlet referred to it as “China’s H-1B” …

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Victoria GillScience correspondent Watch: Jane Goodall tells BBC how she became interested in animals She was a serene force of nature. And she never waivered in her mission to help the animals to which she dedicated her life. When I interviewed Dame Jane Goodall last year, she exuded calm, even …

Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, a world-leading expert on chimpanzees, has died aged 91. Her observations helped to reveal how closely related humans are to chimpanzees. She also worked tirelessly for conservation projects around the world Dr Goodall died of natural causes while in California on a speaking tour of the …

Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies involving chimpanzees, has died aged 91. A post on her institute’s Facebook page said she died on Wednesday morning from natural causes while in California as part of a speaking tour. “Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a …

Brennan Stokkermans The reptile has been given a Gaelic name The fossil of a previously unknown reptile that had snake-like fangs and lived about 167 million years ago has been discovered on Skye. Experts said their research had revealed it to be a new species and family of Jurassic animals …

We are in the midst of a tectonic AI platform shift, one that requires us to both manage and grow our at-scale commercial business today, while building the new frontier and executing flawlessly across both. History shows that general purpose technologies like AI drive step changes in productivity and GDP …

Two species of disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found in the UK – and are spreading as the climate warms, scientists have warned. Aedes aegypti, also known as the Egyptian mosquito, and Aedes albopictus, also known as the (Asian) tiger or forest mosquito, are known vectors of several diseases including yellow …

Ed Miliband has vowed to “ban fracking” for good, as he drew yet another dividing line with Reform during his speech at the Labour Party conference. The energy secretary promised to “send this bunch of frackers packing”, after Richard Tice and Nigel Farage of Reform UK both backed the method …