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Meta is killing the standalone Workrooms app on February 16, 2026. The company presented Workrooms as a virtual reality space where teams can meet and collaborate in an immersive environment when it launched the product. Now Meta says its Horizon platform has evolved enough to support “a wide range of productivity apps and tools,” so it “made the decision to discontinue Workrooms as a standalone app.”The company recently slashed its spending on the metaverse and started the process to lay off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division. Due to those layoffs and organizational changes, it closed three…
New York City police are searching for multiple suspects after a masked group stole Pokémon merchandise at a Manhattan store on Wednesday, 14 January.Security footage shows three people entered the Poké Court store, stole Pokémon merchandise, smashed glass displays, and appeared to point a weapon at customers and staff.The store’s owner told NBC New York that approximately $100,000 (£74,7300) worth of stock was stolen.Police say no one was injured and no arrests have been made.
Justice Secretary David Lammy has blocked the transfer of a killer to an open prison after it emerged he had released drill music with lyrics referencing the murder, under a pseudonym.Jake Fahri was sentenced to life in 2009 for killing16-year-old Jimmy Mizen by throwing an oven dish at him that shattered and severed the arteries in his neck.He was released on licence in 2023 but was later recalled after the Sun published a story alleging Fahri was making music – including about the murder – as balaclava-clad artist Ten.Two years on, the Parole Board said he should be moved to…
The fate of Warner Bros. Discovery remains the biggest story in Hollywood, with Paramount Skydance refusing to back down from its rival bid to the proposed Netflix acquisition of the company. If the Netflix deal does go through, the company’s co-chief executive, Ted Sarandos, has attempted to ease concerns around what that could mean for theaters.In an interview with The New York Times, Sarandos responded to a question about his company’s commitment to the theatrical business by insisting that he has no interest in bringing a swift end to it. “We will run that business largely like it is today,…
The mayor of Yokohama has apologised for insulting colleagues after an official publicly accused him of making offensive remarks.At a news conference, the city’s human resource chief, Jun Kubota, alleged that Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka had used terms such as “idiot” and “human scum” to disparage staff.It is highly unusual in Japan for a serving city official to openly accuse a sitting mayor and demand an apology.Yamanaka initially denied the allegations, but later admitted to some of them. “I want to frankly apologise for placing a psychological burden on the personnel director,” he said.At a news conference on Thursday, Kubota accused…
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has insisted Britain is not broken after her former minister Robert Jenrick criticised the party for failing to campaign on that line.Writing in the Daily Telegraph, she said: “Ours is still one of the most successful, resilient and influential countries on Earth,” adding that telling voters their “country is finished” only “drags them down”.She also insisted that the Conservatives were stronger after Jenrick was sacked, ahead of his defection to Reform.In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on Friday, Jenrick said a shadow cabinet meeting where colleagues failed to agree that the country was…
Can the brilliant new M2 CS hold its head up against two icons of BMW’s M car lineage? The new BMW M2 CS is a special kind of fast BMW. Well, it certainly seems that way to me, if not quite to the other judges of our Britain’s Best Driver’s Car shootout. Democracy can be cruel, as BBDC history has proven time and again for BMW M cars. A combination of ‘Cup’ tyres and changeable weather can be crueller still. My suspicion is that if all five judges had spent as much time in the M2 CS as I did,…
One way to read more in the new year is to incorporate audiobooks as part of your reading habit. Audible is having a sale right now that makes that easier and cheaper to do: you can get three months of access for only $1 per month, or a total of $3. The promotion runs through January 21.An Audible subscription grants one audiobook per month to keep. This can be selected from a massive catalog of new releases and bestsellers. The collection here has just about everything.AmazonHowever, it’s easy to plow through a single book in a month. Users also get…
Tessa WongAsia Digital Reporter, SingaporeGetty ImagesIt’s a busy day at Woodlands Checkpoint, Singapore’s main land crossing on the border with Malaysia, and thousands of cars are slowly trundling past the watchful eyes of customs officer Belinda Liaw and her team.Suddenly Liaw steps forward, signalling at a white Toyota van to stop. Her team swarms the vehicle immediately, their blue-gloved fists knocking all over the chassis to check for false compartments. Others question the driver, rifle through his belongings and scour his mobile phone.They are searching for vapes – which the Singapore government has spent months waging war against.Vapes or e-cigarettes…
Laura KuenssbergSunday with Laura KuenssbergBBCThere is fresh paint in Reform HQ – and a fresh face in its line-up.Before Thursday, the last time Robert Jenrick walked into Millbank Tower, a fabled address in Westminster where lots of political campaigns have been run, was decades ago as an eager Conservative activist.Now, he’s Reform UK’s biggest prize so far – the best-known Tory to defect, and a favourite of Conservative party members.Like or loathe Jenrick’s tactics he has campaigning guile, a knack for grabbing headlines, experience of government, knowledge of Parliament and, of course, insider knowledge of what Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch…