Lib Dem leader Ed Davey said there was a movement on the right “away from liberal progress” (Alamy) 3 min read20 August Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has said that parts of the media reported on Jason Arday in a way that was “disproportionate, unfair, mean and nasty”. Former Cambridge University professor Arday
Insider Brief Galileo Robotics introduced Galileo X, a general-purpose ground mobility platform designed to combine features of wheeled, vehicle-based and legged robots in a single system. The platform uses an integrated hardware architecture and common control framework to support capabilities ranging from precise indoor transport to long-range off-road mobility and complex-terrain traversal. Galileo said potential
Walmart shoppers are increasingly treating the world’s largest retailer like an e-commerce company, and that is beginning to change the numbers that matter most to investors. In its recent second-quarter earnings, the retail giant Walmart’s U.S. comparable sales rose just 2.6%, its slowest pace in six years and below Wall Street expectations. The miss sent
If you’re tight on space or just want a more aesthetically pleasing machine, the best air purifier for home depends on your needs. If you live in a small apartment like me, you may need to have a multifunctional air purifier for a practical reason: space. These compact, dual-purpose machines are useful if you are
Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential to feeding the world’s population. Yet its production accounts for up to 2 percent of the world’s energy consumption and
Award-winning chef Tom Kerridge has called on the government to create a new ministry for hospitality (Alamy) 3 min read21 August Chef and campaigner Tom Kerridge has said Prime Minister Andy Burnham should set up a new department for hospitality. Speaking on the latest episode of PoliticsHome podcast The Rundown, the
Seventies band Boney M is understood to be in talks to appear at Reform UK conference in several weeks (Alamy) 2 min read2 hr Exclusive: Disco band Boney M is in talks with Reform UK to perform at the party’s conference next month, PoliticsHome understands. The band, which rose to fame in the
If you’ve filled up a gas tank lately, bought groceries, or just paid attention to your monthly budget, you already know that consumers are stretched. The data are catching up to what people have been feeling for months. Walmart (WMT) reported fiscal Q2 2027 earnings on Aug. 20 that beat Wall Street’s revenue estimates. But
In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years and it occurred during the period of most accelerated adoption of coding AI agents. Coding AI agents had previously been predicted to lower the importance of language selection. It was
Insider Brief SandboxAQ has made AQPotency generally available as a Large Quantitative Model for predicting drug-target activity and prioritizing candidate molecules. The model can rank molecule-target pairs without requiring a solved 3D structure of the target and provides confidence information alongside its predictions. AQPotency is available through Claude via Model Context Protocol and SandboxAQ’s website,