Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband can't be called chocolate any more Toffee Crisp and Blue Riband bars can no longer be called chocolate after maker Nestle changed their recipes. To be described as milk chocolate in the UK a product needs to have at least 20% cocoa solids and 20% milk solids, a level each product fell below once a higher amount of cheaper vegetable fat was used. Nestle said its reformulations were needed due to higher input costs but were carefully developed and sensory tested and there were no plans to alter the recipes of other chocolate products. As many ingredient costs, such as cocoa and butter, increased food companies have altered recipes to use less of the expensive ingredients, as well as shrinking serving sizes. Nestle now describes the treats as being encased in a smooth milk chocolate flavour coating rather than being covered in milk chocolate.

Navy Secretary John Phelan warns the U.S. must treat shipbuilding with wartime urgency, launching a new office to address submarine delays and outdated acquisition processes.

As AI floods our culture, here's why we must protect human storytelling in games Buying the Zombies, Run! studio wasn't part of my plan, but a post-apocalypse game with stories that make people feel seen pulled me in Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? A few days ago, I clicked a button on my phone to send funds to a company in Singapore and so took ownership of the video game I co-created and am lead writer for: Zombies, Run! I am a novelist, I wrote the bestselling, award-winning The Power, which was turned into an Amazon Prime TV series starring Toni Collette. What on earth am I doing buying a games company?

Plus: Australia's social media ban for teens has just come into force. Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change--for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects nations will soon pay it more than a billion dollars a year to launch specially equipped aircraft into the stratosphere. Once they've reached the necessary altitude, those planes will disperse particles engineered to reflect away enough sunlight to cool down the planet, purportedly without causing environmental side effects. But numerous solar geoengineering researchers are skeptical that Stardust will line up the customers it needs to carry out a global deployment in the next decade. MIT Technology Review Narrated: Is this the electric grid of the future?

With a quarter of people in the UK using AI to find products, marketers must not only appeal to shoppers directly but to AI bots and their opaque decision-making process. With a quarter of people in the UK using AI to find products, marketers must not only appeal to shoppers directly but to AI bots and their opaque decision-making process. 'What to buy Dad for Christmas': is retail ready for the AI shopping shift? Consumer test drive: can AI do your Xmas gift shopping for you? While traditional internet search, social media - especially TikTok and Instagram - and simply wandering a local high street will still be the main routes to presents for most this year, about a quarter of people in the UK are already using AI to find the right products, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash McDonald's has taken down a Christmas advert made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) following online backlash. The 45-second advert was produced with generative AI clips and released publicly on McDonald's Netherlands YouTube channel on 6 December. Viewers on social media denounced the use of AI in the film, with one commenter calling it the most god-awful ad I've seen this year . On 9 December McDonald's Netherlands removed the video, adding in a statement to BBC News that the moment served as an important learning as the company explored the effective use of AI. The advert was created for McDonald's by Dutch company TBWA\Neboko and US production company The Sweetshop.

Australia's vast savannas are changing, and AI is showing us how Australia has the largest intact savannas on Earth . Savannas are an ever-changing mosaic of ecosystems - from the sparse grasslands to dense woodlands, forests and wetlands. They stretch from Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to the Kimberley in Western Australia, making up almost 25 per cent of Australia's landmass . Anticipating how savannas will change in the years ahead is crucial to help inform our decisions about land management and policy that reflect the region's cultural, environmental and economic values. To do this, our team created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool we've called Themeda, a name inspired by Themeda triandra, an iconic Australian native species known as'kangaroo grass' (as well as an acronym for Thematic Mapping of Ecosystem Dynamics).

Keio University President Kohei Ito (left) and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon sign a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday in Tokyo. Keio University is working with OpenAI to integrate artificial intelligence into its education system. Keio University President Kohei Ito and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday, making Keio the first Japanese university to form a strategic partnership with the producer of ChatGPT. "We will develop an environment where students and researchers can proactively learn and utilize AI," Ito said. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

A member of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service attends a transfer ceremony of special vehicles from Japan to Ukraine in Kyiv in November 2023. With Russia making incremental territorial gains in Ukraine, Kyiv is urging Tokyo to boost its support in areas such as cybersecurity, demining and counterdrone systems, transforming what started as ad hoc, nonlethal assistance into a long-term security partnership. "Ukraine has identified several priority areas," Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Serhiy Boev told The Japan Times in an exclusive interview. These include counterdrone systems that can be integrated with the country's air-defense network, logistics and maintenance support for nonlethal equipment, as well as surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to enhance maritime domain awareness, particularly in the Black Sea. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

Unlike conventional keyword-based search tools, the AI service for searching through disclosure materials allows for prompts such as companies whose dividend predictions rose at least 20%. Japan Exchange Group, the operator of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), on Tuesday launched a service enabling users to search corporate disclosure materials using artificial intelligence. The J-Lens service, whose prototype version was released by JPX Market Innovation & Research, a unit of Japan Exchange, or JPX, is aimed at improving investor convenience by enhancing search functions for the massive volume of disclosure documents. Around 150,000 such documents are filed each year. Unlike conventional keyword-based search tools, J-Lens allows for prompts such as companies whose dividend predictions rose at least 20%.