A stunning Miss England semi–finalist has been revealed, but there's a huge catch – she is AI–generated. The Miss England pageant has launched a brand new AI round, featuring computer–generated beauty queens. Glamorous contestants can now walk down a virtual catwalk by making digital twin avatars of themselves as part of the Black Mirror–style qualifying round. Organisers believe they are the first beauty pageant in the world to introduce a digital AI round which will help'reflect the world' the young women are stepping into. The contest has already axed its bikini swimwear round in a bid to move away from outdated pageant stereotypes and replaced it was a CPR round teaching life–saving skills.

A Russian air raid on a shopping centre and market in Dobropillia, eastern Ukraine, killed at least two people, wounded 22 others and caused widespread damage on Wednesday, the regional governor, Vadym Filashkin, said. Filashkin said the building was struck by a 500kg (1,100-pound) bomb at 5:20pm (14:20 GMT). Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as one ballistic missile, on Wednesday night, the Ukrainian air force said. The strikes targeted the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the central city of Kryvyi Rih, Vinnytsia in the west, and Odesa in the south. A Ukrainian drone killed one person and injured six others in the Russian city of Belgorod, and injured one person in a village northeast of the city, the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said.

At least fifteen people have been injured in the latest wave of Russian drone strikes, which this time hit four Ukranian cities. Video shows firefighters battling flames from a large blaze. This comes amid the 50-day deadline from the US for Russia to secure a peace deal.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. More than 180 million years ago, ichthyosaurs ruled the early Jurassic oceans. The carnivorous marine reptiles ranged from the size of a briefcase to larger than a school bus. The biggest of these whale-like creatures were apex predators, hunting ancient fish, ammonites, and even their smaller reptile relatives. As they searched for prey, some may have swum with surprising stealth.

Uber and Baidu plan to launch robotaxis on the ride-sharing platform in several markets outside of the U.S. and mainland China through a multiyear partnership. Baidu's autonomous vehicles will be available on the Uber app in Asia and the Middle East later this year, the companies said in a statement Tuesday. Thousands of vehicles will be deployed as part of the partnership, the companies said. Future rollouts will also include Europe and Oceania, an Uber spokesperson said. Shares of Uber rose as much as 1.4% after markets opened in New York.

Robert Hanssen was the most damaging spy in American history. A senior FBI agent turned traitor, he sold classified secrets to Russia for more than two decades, compromising US intelligence at the highest levels. I was the undercover operative assigned to stop him. Working inside FBI headquarters, I became Hanssen's assistant in name, while secretly gathering the evidence that would lead to his arrest. That operation became the basis of my book Gray Day and the film Breach, in which Ryan Phillippe portrayed me. Since then, my path has evolved.

As efforts to revive and modernize local manufacturing accelerate in regions around the world, including North America and Europe, adaptive production could help manufacturers overcome some of their biggest obstacles--firstly, attracting and retaining talent. Nearly 60% of manufacturers cited this as their top challenge in a 2024 US-based survey. Highly automated, technology-led adaptive production methods hold new promise for attracting talent to roles that are safer, less repetitive, and better paid. "The ideal scenario is one where AI enhances human capabilities, leads to new task creation, and empowers the people who are most at risk from automation's impact on certain jobs, particularly those without college degrees," says Simon Johnson, co-director of MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. Secondly, the digitalization of manufacturing--embedded in the very foundation of adaptive production technologies--allows companies to better address complex sustainability challenges through process and resource optimization and a better understanding of data.

Finding potential partners on dating apps who want the same things as you can be a grueling task -- especially if you're out for a relationship. It can feel deeply disappointing when someone you've spent hours talking to keeps making excuses for not meeting up. Why do they bother crafting sparkling text conversation over a series of weeks if they won't actually take you on a date? A new study published in Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace may have the answer. Researchers from Miguel Hernández University of Elche in Spain studied the motives of Tinder users and how this lined up with the'dark tetrad' set of personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.

Kyiv, Ukraine – Heavy thuds that resemble fast hip-hop beats fill the night air when MIM-104 Patriots, air defence systems made in the United States, get to work. Each Patriot surface-to-air launcher can shoot up to 32 missiles within seconds – and hit Russian ballistic missiles closing in on their targets. The missiles fly at supersonic speeds, and the collision triggers a bright, split-second blast followed by a thunderous shock-wave. "That's the kind of explosion that makes me feel safe," Ihor Lysenko, a 17-year-old in the capital Kyiv told Al Jazeera. He believes that the "technology is pretty reliable".

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from United States President Donald Trump's administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips, used to develop artificial intelligence, to China. The news came in a company blog post late on Monday, and Huang also spoke about the coup on China's state-run CGTN television network in remarks shown on X. "The US government has assured Nvidia that licences will be granted, and Nvidia hopes to start deliveries soon," the post said. "Today, I'm announcing that the US government has approved for us filing licences to start shipping H20s," Huang told reporters in Beijing. He noted that half of the world's AI researchers are in China. "It's so innovative and dynamic here in China that it's really important that American companies are able to compete and serve the market here in China," he said.