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Inside the Met Police: Former officers open up
Handout By Liz Jackson BBC News The Metropolitan Police was recently described as institutionally misogynist in a review by Baroness Casey, who found that a “boys’ club” culture was rife and the force was failing to protect the public from officers who abuse women. Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has told the BBC that the…
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Armed police run through Auckland as shooting unfolds
A shooting has left two people dead in the centre of Auckland, New Zealand, hours before the city is due to open the Fifa Women’s World Cup. Six other people, including police officers, were injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident at 07:22 (19:22 GMT) on a construction site in the central…
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The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project
One day in Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another. In this specially illustrated story, the artist and writer Ben Platts-Mills recounts what happened to these atomic bomb-makers – and why their accident holds powerful lessons for today. “…In the search for a harmonious attitude towards…
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Artificial intelligence: Experts propose guidelines for safe systems
Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor A global group of AI experts and data scientists has released a new voluntary framework for developing artificial intelligence products safely. The World Ethical Data Foundation has 25,000 members including staff working at various tech giants such as Meta, Google and Samsung. The framework contains a checklist of…
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Canada wants US skilled workers – and they are interested
Leon Yang By Sam Cabral and Nadine Yousif BBC News, Washington and Toronto When Leon Yang was 16, he moved by himself from Xi’An, China to the US, to study in a country where he believed that, if he worked hard every day, he could get where he wanted. Fascinated by airplanes and everything else…
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Deadly shooting rattles Auckland just before Women’s World Cup
A shooting has left two people dead at a construction site in the central business district of Auckland, New Zealand, police say. At least four other people are thought to have been injured and the gunman is also dead after the incident which came at 07:22 (19:22 GMT). Mayor Wayne Brown said it was a…
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Best places to eat in Auckland according to chef Peter Gordon
From Asian-fusion feasts at Hello Beasty to fish and chips at FishSmith, the “godfather of fusion cooking” shares his top food picks in the world’s biggest Polynesian city. New Zealand’s most populous city sprawls across an isthmus between two harbours, its downtown commercial district perched on the waterfront of the Waitematā, a spiky cluster of…
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AI: Digital artist’s work copied more times than Picasso
Greg Rutkowski By Clare Hutchinson & Phil John BBC News “My work has been used in AI more than Picasso.” Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing life as we know it, but for digital artist Greg Rutkowski it is causing big problems. He said his name had been used as a prompt in AI tools that…
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Netflix password crackdown pays off in new subscribers
Lara Solanki/Netflix A burst of people signed up for Netflix this spring, after the streaming giant cracked down on password sharing. The company ended June with more than 238 million subscribers, adding 5.9 million members since March. That was bigger than expected and follows efforts by the company to re-ignite growth following unusual subscriber losses…
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St John: The tiny island where Robert Oppenheimer escaped his legacy
A new biopic is shedding light on rise and fall of “the father of the atomic bomb”. But few people know that he spent many of his final days as a Caribbean castaway. I was 20 years old and had J Robert Oppenheimer’s house all to myself. From the porch of the small yellow cottage,…