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Watch: Celebrities paint garden gnomes for Chelsea Flower Show as ban lifts

BBC News

David Beckham and Dame Mary Berry are among the famous faces to have painted gnomes to raise funds for a school gardening campaign.


Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI

BBC News

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed by students as he spoke about the rise of artificial intelligence during his speech at University of Arizona's graduation ceremony, underscoring growing anxiety over AI's impact on jobs. I know what many of you are feeling about that. I can hear you, Schmidt told graduates as jeers rang out at the venue during remarks comparing today's AI boom to the rise of computers four decades ago. The reaction reflects a broader unease on campuses, where speakers who mention AI are increasingly being met with hostility from students. A recent poll suggests many students view AI as both a threat to their future and an obstacle to their intellectual development.


After Struggling With EVs, US Automakers Pivot to Energy

WIRED

Ford and GM are backing away from electric vehicles and moving into the battery storage business. And it all comes back to AI. Automakers make cars--it's in the name. But lately, politics, current events, and Wall Street's latest preoccupation, artificial intelligence, have them looking a lot more like energy companies. The pivot, analysts say, could give US auto manufacturers struggling through a transition to electric vehicles an easier path over the next few years. Whether it works will come down to the same technology that automakers once promised would power the majority of their lineups: batteries .

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Waymo driverless cars overrun Atlanta neighborhood, circling cul-de-sacs and alarming families with kids

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FAA unveils new air traffic controller hiring plan after chief warned system was 'chronically understaffed'

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Why airplane toilets are tiny engineering marvels

Popular Science

More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. There's more to airplane toilets than meets the eye. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. But that incredibly loud sucking sound is actually something of an engineering marvel. In this episode of Ask Us Anything by, we get into all the smelly details of how airplane toilets actually work. Ask Us Anything answers your most outlandish, mind-burning questions--from the everyday things you've always wondered to the bizarre things you never thought to ask. So, yes, there's a reason we can't remember being babies and no, not all cats hate water .

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Is that traffic ticket text a scam or real?

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US Air Force rescues 11 after plane crashes into waters off Florida coast

Al Jazeera

US Air Force footage showed the rescue of 11 people after a private plane from the Bahamas crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Florida. Survivors were found in a life raft as a storm approached and were airlifted to hospital. Iran's FM urges BRICS states to condemn US-Israeli aggression


Israel's Ben Gvir storms Al-Aqsa during Jerusalem Day march

Al Jazeera

'This is an apartheid regime' Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the Al-Aqsa compound under heavy military protection during Jerusalem Day, as Israelis marched through occupied East Jerusalem. The march marks Israel's 1967 capture and illegal occupation of East Jerusalem. Iran's FM urges BRICS states to condemn US-Israeli aggression


The Palestinian game fighting to exist

Al Jazeera

'This is an apartheid regime' A developer from the occupied West Bank is turning a 75-year-old Palestinian folk tale into a video game, and the fight to make it mirrors the story inside it. Dreams on a Pillow follows a mother displaced during the 1948 Nakba. We spoke to developer Rasheed Abueideh. Iran's FM urges BRICS states to condemn US-Israeli aggression