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EU launches ‘simplification’ agenda in effort to keep up with US and China
The EU executive has announced “an unprecedented simplification effort” to cut red tape and boost innovation in an attempt to reverse Europe’s economic decline compared with China and the US.
In her first major policy announcement since starting a second term as European Commission president last month, Ursula von der …
Comeback kids don’t come much more extraordinary – or well-loved – than Ke Huy Quan. After starring, aged 13, as Short Round in 1984’s
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
, and then the following year as Data inThe Goonies
, he struggled to forge a …England’s Jamie Overton ‘trying to be a ninja’ in channelling intensity
Back in late 2019, Somerset’s Lewis Gregory was given an unenviable task: to bat at No 7 in England’s Twenty20 team. In a five-match series against New Zealand he batted just three times. When he got to the crease, time was limited, risks required, the end product a tally of …
Supersonic prototype jet breaks sound barrier on US test flight
A US-made prototype jet has broken the sound barrier, in the first commercial venture to achieve supersonic speeds since Concorde.
Boom Supersonic, a startup that seeks to build the world’s fastest airliner, flew a test flight of its fighter jet-sized XB-1 demonstrator over the Mojave desert in California on Tuesday.
…Lloyds Banking Group to shut another 136 UK high street branches
Lloyds Banking Group has revealed plans to shut another 136 branches, weeks after a policy allowing customers to do their in-person banking
across any of its three brands
sparked fears that bosses could close up to a quarter of its high street sites.The move will cut …
Valencia councillor caught shopping online at flood relief meeting
David Sedaris: ‘I’m shocked by people who take selfies in public. I’d sooner masturbate in public’
You just got back from Egypt. What was that like?
There are 6 million cats in Egypt that are kept as pets, and there are 100 million that live on the streets. And they’re all missing an eye, or a part of a paw, or they’re filthy. So …
Inflation data isn’t all sunshine and rainbows for Labor – as Biden and Democrats will attest
Trump asks Musk to bring back two astronauts ‘stranded’ on space station
Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring back two astronauts “stranded” in space, despite Nasa saying they are not stranded and will return to Earth by the end of March.
Trump said that he had asked Musk and SpaceX to get “the 2 brave astronauts who have been …
What International AI Safety report says on jobs, climate, cyberwar and more
The International AI Safety report is a wide-ranging document that acknowledges an array of challenges posed by a technology that is advancing at dizzying speed.
The document, commissioned after the 2023 global AI safety summit, covers numerous threats from deepfakes to aiding cyberattacks and the use of biological weapons, as …