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Mystery of the 'golfer's curse' is SOLVED: Scientists pinpoint why golf balls 'lip out' after appearing to enter the hole
Now he's dead, here's the full story of what happened that day... and the ghastly aftermath no one knows about Wake up and see he's the master of the dark arts: MEGYN KELLY blows the lid on the REAL Mamdani... how are they missing this? 'Screaming' Sydney Sweeney'hates' that she was caught hiding in ex-fiancรฉ's car: Now insiders spill truth about backseat rendezvous and lingering'frustrations' Mom is an Oscar winner who has acted with Selena Gomez and Nicole Kidman, who is this nepo kid who came out last year? Bella Thorne continues swimsuit season as she works sexy bikini for Los Cabo trip with her'love' Mark Emms Experts pinpoint typical life expectancy from initial dementia diagnosis - and there's a huge variation between different subtypes Diddy's male prison protector unmasked: How disgraced mogul has repaid him... and turned to God for repentance Teachers threatened over bloody'Problem Solved' T-shirts over claims they mocked murder of Charlie Kirk Astonishing moment Miss Universe winner storms out of this year's event after pageant president reprimands Miss Mexico and tells security to remove her for not showing'respect' Mystery of the'golfer's curse' is SOLVED: Scientists pinpoint why golf balls'lip out' after appearing to enter the hole READ MORE: Golf balls are a'product of colonial exploitation', exhibition says Experts have finally solved the mystery of one of the most infuriating occurrences in golf - the dreaded lip out. The phenomenon occurs when the golf ball appears to enter the hole, only to immediately pop back out again. Scientists have finally pinpointed the physics behind the'curse', which has plagued everyone from amateur hobbyists to PGA professionals. Best of all, they've revealed the best way to avoid it - keeping your score intact.
AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li says she is 'proud to be different'
AI'godmother' Fei-Fei Li says she is'proud to be different' The'godmother' of AI, Professor Fei-Fei Li has told the BBC that being the only woman amongst seven pioneers of artificial Intelligence being presented with a top engineering prize by the King today makes her proud to be different. The King will present the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to Prof Li and six others during a ceremony at St James's Palace. Those honoured alongside her are Prof Yoshua Bengio, Dr Bill Dally, Dr Geoffrey Hinton, Prof John Hopfield, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang and Meta's Chief AI Scientist Dr Yann LeCun. They are being recognised for their contributions to the development of modern machine learning, a field that underpins the rapid advancement of AI. Who are the Godparents of AI? Dr Hinton, Prof Bengio and Yann LeCun, currently Chief AI Scientist at Meta have widely been recognised as the Godfathers of AI since they were jointly awarded the 2018 Turing Award.
Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over 85bn sickness bill
The number of sick and disabled people out of work is putting the UK is at risk of an economic inactivity crisis that threatens the country's prosperity, according to a new report. There were 800,000 more people out of work now than in 2019 due to health conditions, costing employers ยฃ85bn a year, according to the review by former John Lewis boss Sir Charlie Mayfield. The problem could worsen without intervention, but Sir Charlie, who will lead a taskforce aimed at helping people return to work, said this was not inevitable. The move has been broadly welcomed, but some business groups said Labour's Employment Rights Bill included some disincentives to hiring people with existing illnesses. One in five working age people were out of work, and not seeking work, according to the report, which was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions by produced independently.
Measuring AI Diffusion: A Population-Normalized Metric for Tracking Global AI Usage
Misra, Amit, Wang, Jane, McCullers, Scott, White, Kevin, Ferres, Juan Lavista
Measuring global AI diffusion remains challenging due to a lack of population-normalized, cross-country usage data. We introduce AI User Share, a novel indicator that estimates the share of each country's working-age population actively using AI tools. Built from anonymized Microsoft telemetry and adjusted for device access and mobile scaling, this metric spans 147 economies and provides consistent, real-time insight into global AI diffusion. We find wide variation in adoption, with a strong correlation between AI User Share and GDP. High uptake is concentrated in developed economies, though usage among internet-connected populations in lower-income countries reveals substantial latent demand. We also detect sharp increases in usage following major product launches, such as DeepSeek in early 2025. While the metric's reliance solely on Microsoft telemetry introduces potential biases related to this user base, it offers an important new lens into how AI is spreading globally. AI User Share enables timely benchmarking that can inform data-driven AI policy.
AI Diffusion in Low Resource Language Countries
Misra, Amit, Zamir, Syed Waqas, Hamidouche, Wassim, Becker-Reshef, Inbal, Ferres, Juan Lavista
Artificial intelligence (AI) is diffusing globally at unprecedented speed, but adoption remains uneven. Frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to perform poorly on low-resource languages due to data scarcity. We hypothesize that this performance deficit reduces the utility of AI, thereby slowing adoption in Low-Resource Language Countries (LRLCs). To test this, we use a weighted regression model to isolate the language effect from socioeconomic and demographic factors, finding that LRLCs have a share of AI users that is approximately 20% lower relative to their baseline. These results indicate that linguistic accessibility is a significant, independent barrier to equitable AI diffusion.
Deterministic Legal Agents: A Canonical Primitive API for Auditable Reasoning over Temporal Knowledge Graphs
For autonomous legal agents to operate safely in high-stakes domains, they require a foundation of absolute determinism and auditability-guarantees that standard Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks cannot provide. When interacting with temporal knowledge graphs that model the complex evolution of legal norms, agents must navigate versioning, causality, and hierarchical structures with precision, a task for which black-box vector search is ill-suited. This paper introduces a new architectural pattern to solve this: a formal Primitive API designed as a secure execution layer for reasoning over such graphs. Instead of a monolithic query engine, our framework provides a library of canonical primitives-atomic, composable, and auditable primitives. This design empowers planner-guided agents to decompose complex legal questions into transparent execution plans, enabling critical tasks with full verifiability, including: (i) precise point-in-time version retrieval, (ii) robust causal lineage tracing, and (iii) context-aware hybrid search. Ultimately, this architecture transforms opaque retrieval into auditable reasoning, turning the agent's internal process from a black box into a verifiable log of deterministic primitives and providing a blueprint for building the next generation of trustworthy legal AI.
Mortgages and AI to be added to the curriculum in English schools
Children will be taught how to budget and how mortgages work as the government seeks to modernise the national curriculum in England's schools. They will also be taught how to spot fake news and disinformation, including AI-generated content, following the first review of what is taught in schools in over a decade. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the government wanted to revitalise the curriculum but keep a firm foundation in basics like English, maths and reading. Head teachers said the review's recommendations were sensible but would require sufficient funding and teachers. The government commissioned a review of the national curriculum and assessments in England last year, in the hope of developing a cutting edge curriculum that would narrow attainment gaps between the most disadvantaged students and their classmates.
US spy jet spotted patrolling cartel stronghold off Mexico's coast for hours
AMANDA PLATELL: Fergie's delusions have reached a new low. I can't believe Beatrice and Eugenie are egging her on. Wake up and see he's the master of the dark arts: MEGYN KELLY blows the lid on the REAL Mamdani... how are they missing this? 'Screaming' Sydney Sweeney'hates' that she was caught hiding in ex-fiancรฉ's car: Now insiders spill truth about backseat rendezvous and lingering'frustrations' Karoline Leavitt warns'short of planes falling out of the sky' Democrats won't reopen government Donald Trump's adopted hometown is set to name its airport after the president Now he's dead, here's the full story of what happened that day... and the ghastly aftermath no one knows about Bella Thorne continues swimsuit season as she works sexy bikini for Los Cabo trip with her'love' Mark Emms Why Tuesday's races aren't as close as you think: White House analyst CRAIG KESHISHIAN reveals what the polls always miss She took my son... now I'm exposing the secrets she's hidden from the world Big Short star Michael Burry's $1BILLION bet against tech giants shakes markets: 'We've seen this movie before' The murder that haunts the Kennedys: Martha Moxley's loved ones reveal their truth in the FREE The Crime Desk newsletter... as accused cousin cleared in killing breaks cover Boy George's vile attack on lesbian banned by LA gym for confronting'transgender patron who stared at her while she was naked in locker room' Diddy's male prison protector unmasked: How disgraced mogul has repaid him... and turned to God for repentance US spy jet spotted patrolling cartel stronghold off Mexico's coast for hours The US Navy's P-8 Poseidon, an aircraft designed for anti-submarine warfare, surveillance, and reconnaissance, was spotted circling a drug-smuggling hub off Mexico's coast. On Tuesday, flight trackers recorded the jet performing multiple loops miles offshore from Tijuana, a city long plagued by violent organized crime and considered a major corridor for cartel operations. The P-8 took off from the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington, flew through Oregon and through California .
Google plans to put datacentres in space to meet demand for AI
The US company says putting AI processors in space would ease pressure on the Earth's resources. The US company says putting AI processors in space would ease pressure on the Earth's resources. US technology company's engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches Google is hatching plans to put artificial intelligence datacentres into space, with its first trial equipment sent into orbit in early 2027. Its scientists and engineers believe tightly packed constellations of about 80 solar-powered satellites could be arranged in orbit about 400 miles above the Earth's surface equipped with the powerful processors required to meet rising demand for AI. Prices of space launches are falling so quickly that by the middle of the 2030s the running costs of a space-based datacentre could be comparable to one on Earth, according to Google research released on Tuesday.
How will AI impact jobs?
The Stream How will AI impact jobs? We look at how AI is affecting jobs, and how gender and age influence who uses it. Who is not talking about artificial intelligence these days? It is already weaving into virtually every industry and beginning to reshape how we work. But what many professionals are now asking is: What does this mean for our careers?