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Nick EardleyPolitical correspondentPA MediaThe government is to radically reduce the number of police forces in England and Wales as part of what sources have called the largest reform of policing in decades.Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce plans for police reform next week.She will pledge to “significantly” cut the number of forces from its current level of 43, and tell them to focus on serious and organised crime. Police chiefs have been calling for the creation of 12 “mega forces” to save money and boost crime-fighting efforts.It could be years before changes are implemented, with government sources saying only that…
Chelsea are considering a move for Nottingham Forest midfielder Douglas Luiz as they look to bolster midfield depth for the second half of the season, according to reports. Liam Rosenior picked Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo, Andrey Santos and Reggie Walsh in his squad for Wednesday’s Champions League win over Pafos, with natural right-back Reece James starting in defensive midfield. The new Chelsea head coach is without Romeo Lavia due to a thigh injury, and the Belgian has struggled for fitness since moving to Stamford Bridge from Southampton in August 2023. Dario Essugo is another young midfielder currently sidelined. Why do…
Image: X screenshot from Chrome Four months late, Gemini in Chrome finally arrives on Chromebooks. Gemini in Chrome combines Google’s advanced AI with Chrome’s context, enabling users to summarize content, generate images, and perform advanced agentic functions. Google sees the update as one of its most concerted efforts to solidify Chrome as the default browser against fierce competition. According to a report cited by 9to5Google, Google has begun the batched rollout to Chromebook users months after Mac and Windows received theirs. Despite running Google’s ChromeOS, these users are the last to receive major updates. A little backstory Chrome leads the…
We might still be in the midst of the playoffs, but that doesn’t mean we can’t plan ahead for Super Bowl LX. For those of you who just can’t with Roman numerals, thats Super Bowl 60, and it’s taking place this year at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA, on February 8, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.Like all other Sunday Night Football games this season, the championship game will be broadcast on Super Bowl Sunday on NBC, and will stream live on Peacock. And it’s not just the game that we’re excited for, either. This year’s halftime performer is singer…
GreedFall: The Dying World, the prequel to 2019’s GreedFall, has been coming together in Steam Early Access since September 2024, but it’s almost ready to come out of the oven. Developer Spiders announced today that its follow-up will launch on March 12.Set three years before the original GreedFall, The Dying World is a choice-driven action RPG where players control a native of the island of Teer Fradee, the primary setting of the last game. The protagonist is a guardian of knowledge and nature; unfortunately, this status attracts the attention of colonists from the old continent of Gacane, which is being…
Ian YoungsCulture reporterWarner BrosSinners stars Miles Caton (left) and Michael B Jordan, twiceVampire horror film Sinners has broken the record for the most Oscar nominations received by a single film, after being nominated for 16 of Hollywood’s most coveted honours.The film beat the previous record of 14 nominations, and emerged ahead of its nearest rival this year, Leonardo DiCaprio’s thriller One Battle After Another, which is up for 13 awards.Sinners’ contenders include its star Michael B Jordan and his British co-stars Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo.Other big names up for trophies include Timothée Chalamet, who is hoping for third time…
David DeansWales political reporterBBCEluned Morgan said nationalism was on the rise in WalesWelsh first minister Eluned Morgan says Sir Keir Starmer’s UK government should help stop pro-independence parties winning the next Senedd election by giving her country more powers.Morgan warned that the “threat to the United Kingdom will become real” if parties wanting to leave the union were leading in both Scotland and Wales.She said a recent opinion poll, which suggested Plaid Cymru and the Greens could win a combined 50% of the vote, showed “separatism is now on the agenda”. Both parties believe Wales should be an independent state.The…
After the latest check on the pulse of the nation with regard to Mason Greenwood’s return to Manchester United, we can confirm that people remain grimly fascinated by the possibility and that it’s still really not OK. It’s an uncomfortable truth that football journalists are now all too aware of that Greenwood is a name which does good business. In part because he’s an excellent footballer who looks destined for great(er) things, but also because of the manner of his exit from Old Trafford and how his possible return continues to split opinion. Greenwood faced charges for rape and assault…
At CES earlier this month, AMD announced the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, a more wallet-friendly take on its $700 9950X3D. The company promised the new chip would be out sometime in the first three months of the year, and it’s going to arrive a bit sooner than you might have expected. It can be all yours on January 29 for $499.AMD says the 9850X3D builds on the 9800X3D with an 400MHz upgrade to the boost clock. It can reach boost speeds of 5.6GHz. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D is an 8-core CPU with 16 threads and 104MB of combined L2 and L3…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained a 5-year-old boy on Tuesday during an enforcement operation, Minnesota school officials have said, as part of an immigration crackdown in the state.Pre-schooler Liam Ramos was with his father – named by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias – when Conejo Arias was approached by agents on his driveway. In a statement posted on X, the DHS said “ICE did NOT target a child”, but was conducting an operation against his father, an “illegal alien” who “abandoned” his son when approached.Zena Stenvik, the Columbia Heights Public Schools…