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Image: Google Your Gmail inbox could become a personal assistant, thanks to the power of AI. Google is rolling out a major update to Gmail, introducing a new suite of AI features designed to help users manage email overload and extract information more quickly. The changes, powered by the company’s Gemini AI models, aim to transform Gmail from a traditional inbox into what Google describes as a “personal, proactive inbox assistant.” The update comes as email usage continues to grow. Google says around three billion people rely on Gmail worldwide, and inboxes are more crowded than ever. While AI has…
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) in Greater London is in the process of contacting households across the borough after establishing in December that personal data on thousands of residents was stolen in a cyber attack on shared systems operated by the council. Over a month after the incident, several services remain disrupted or are operating in a limited capacity. Residents may experience longer service response times, difficulties with revenue or benefits processing and delays to payments and Direct Debits, and issues with housing and social care. RBKC did not reveal the precise nature of the data…
Have you ever wanted to save approximately three seconds and two mouse clicks when shopping online? Microsoft has something special just for you. The company just introduced something called at the NRF 2026 retail conference. This is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a shopping assistant embedded within Copilot.The feature is rolling out now in the US and , Shopify, Stripe and Etsy. It lets people complete purchases directly inside of Copilot without having to withstand the grueling experience of being redirected to a retailer’s website. Participating partners include Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Ashley Furniture.The retailers remain the actual merchant…
AFP/Getty ImagesMichel Nkuka Mboladinga has won the hearts of Afcon fans with his Lumumba statue tributeAlgeria’s football federation has apologised to a Congolese superfan who has become one of the stars of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) being held in Morocco.Michel Nkuka Mboladinga has supported the Democratic Republic of Congo by dressing up as the country’s revered first leader Patrice Lumumba and remaining stock-still throughout every match.He stood on a pedestal with his right arm raised – just like Lumumba’s famous statue in DR Congo’s capital, Kinshasa – as fans around him cheered.But after Algeria beat the Leopards on…
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…