Cross-party MPs and peers have written a letter, organised by Labour MP Afzal Khan, to IPSO concerning the treatment of Professor Jason Arday. (Alamy) 4 min read19 August A cross-party group of MPs and peers has asked the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) to investigate media coverage of Jason Arday. In a
When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private and secure.” New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image files, including photographs of people’s faces, publicly exposed. And a second misconfiguration publicly exposed people’s email addresses and
There was a time when $1,000 for a phone seemed absurd. Now Samsung is asking certain customers to pay more than twice that. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra starts at $2,099.99, making it one of the most expensive mainstream smartphones consumers can buy in the U.S., The Guardian reported. So what is the
Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and
As the 2026 Primary campaign winds down across the state, candidates, campaigns and supporters will watch anxiously as results begin to roll in after polls close at 7 p.m. Some choose to do so from the privacy of their own homes, at a friend or family member’s house or from private parties that are invite-only.
David Lidington arrives at 10 Downing Street, 2018 (Alamy) 3 min read13 August A former Conservative cabinet minister has called on his party to back housebuilding and abandon the state pension triple lock, in a bid to “look beyond” elderly voters and “really make inroads” with younger generations. David Lidington, who
(Alamy) 4 min read15 August Students have launched a campaign urging the government to make it easier for those attending university or college to register to vote. The National Union of Students UK (NUS) and Purpose Union are calling on ministers to roll out a nationwide auto-enrolment system that would “remove the needless barriers for universities and
Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart activity, sleep, and physical activity. The company discussed its Connected Care vision at the Health Forum during Galaxy Unpacked in July 2026. Samsung described a future of
Pandora (PNDORA) just told investors it will keep replacing silver in its jewelry, even though silver’s price has fallen significantly from its record high. That decision surprised some market watchers. When the price of a material drops, most companies take the cost savings and move on. Pandora is doing the opposite. The Danish jeweler wants
Ask most executives what stands between their company and successful AI adoption, and the answer used to be the model. That has changed. The organizations actually getting AI into production this year are discovering that the harder problem was never picking the right large language model. It was building the infrastructure underneath it: the compute,