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Simon Jack,BBC Business EditorandLucy Hooker,Business reporterGetty ImagesA climbdown on forthcoming increases to the business rates bills faced by pubs in England is set to be announced by the government in the next few days.The government is expected to say it will make changes to how pubs’ business rates are calculated, resulting in smaller rises to bills.Treasury officials say they have recognised the financial difficulties facing many pubs after sharp rises in the rateable value of their premises.The move follows pressure from landlords and industry groups that included more than 1,000 pubs banning Labour MPs from their premises.The Treasury is also…
Liverpool fans are torn between writing this off as a transition season and seeing this tripe as the beginning of the end for Arne Slot. We also have views on panenkas, Spurs and centre-backs as we relegate Man Utd to the bottom. Watch Arsenal v Liverpool and then mail theeditor@football365.com Starting with panenkas Enzo Le Fée’s attempted Panenka against Brentford yesterday deserves to be filed under “lessons never learned”. Watching it, I immediately thought of Ademola Lookman’s infamous Panenka against West Ham, still, for me, the gold standard of how not to take a penalty. Same soft touch, same…
Image generated by Google Gemini Pfizer and Boltz have announced a collaboration aimed at expanding the use of advanced biomolecular AI across Pfizer’s drug discovery and preclinical research programs. The partnership brings together Pfizer’s scientific data and therapeutic expertise with Boltz’s open-source AI foundation models and generative design workflows, signaling a deeper integration of AI into pharmaceutical R&D. Gabriele Corso, CEO of Boltz, said, “Pfizer scientists have been some of the earliest adopters of our open-source models and members of our community – with users across modalities and disease areas. This partnership helps us take our platform to a new level…
The Open Rights Group (ORG) is calling on the UK government to implement a digital sovereignty strategy, arguing there is a pressing need to reduce the country’s dependence on technological infrastructure from US companies that may be subject to foreign interference. The digital rights campaigner warned that while various digital infrastructures may be technically secure, they could become “strategically fragile” if they depend on a small number of foreign-controlled suppliers or proprietary systems that cannot be easily replaced. They also warned that widespread dependence on hyperscale cloud services such as Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) also poses risks,…
Star Trek is in a weird place right now. Less than three years ago we were living in a golden age with five shows on the air, all with different styles and intended audiences. But the universe rapidly contracted, with Picard ending while four other shows were cut short. Strange New Worlds still has another two seasons left, sure, but even that final season got truncated. As it stands, there’s only one project with a firm future right now, and that’s a brand-new show, Starfleet Academy, premiering January 15 on Paramount+.How this show is received could very well determine the…
Xbox has announced that it will air a Developer Direct showcase later this month on Thursday, January 22, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. It will feature Playground Games’ Fable and Forza Horizon 6, both of which are set to launch this year, and Pokémon maker Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation. The showcase, stylized as “Developer_Direct,” promises new gameplay and insight directly from the developers working on these games. More specifically, it will feature the first extended look at Fable as well as the debut of gameplay for Forza Horizon 6, which is set in Japan, a setting fans of the…
Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent in the Central neighbourhood of Minneapolis.
Laura Cress,Technology reporterandChris Vallance,Senior technology reporterGetty ImagesCampaigners have accused the government of dragging its heels on implementing a law which would make it illegal to create non-consensual sexualised deepfakes.It comes amid a backlash against images created using Elon Musk’s AI Grok to digitally remove clothing – with one woman telling the BBC more than 100 sexualised images have been created of her.It is currently illegal to share deepfakes of adults in the UK, but new legislation that would make it a criminal offence to create or request them is still not in force despite passing in June 2025.But it is…
According to reports, Arsenal are ‘ready’ to battle Manchester City and other sides in the race to sign Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi this year. Guehi is considered one of the best centre-backs in Europe as he has had a fantastic couple of years for Crystal Palace and England. The talented defender has been a great asset for Palace, but they are going to lose him at some point in this year as he is in the final few months of his contract. In the summer, Liverpool were at the front of the queue for his signature and they even…
To drive, the Model Y remains a car whose lack of physical controls and conventional instrumentation does seem to gaslight you a little bit about what actually constitutes ease of operation. Well rehearsed as it may sound, given that Tesla is now more of a generalist brand than one for technophiles, the argument certainly bears repeating.You do get a physical indicator stalk here, as well as actual buttons for headlight flash and wash-wipe. Unlike in other Model Ys, you also get manual steering column adjustment (whoopee). And yet adjusting the seat position and door mirrors, and activating the demister/adjusting the climate control,…