Artificial intelligence embraced by Basingstoke college
BBC Anthony Bravo said students would be “foolish” not to use AI for work “The tide is coming in. You can’t hold it back,” college principal Anthony Bravo reflects on the impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on teaching and learning. Basingstoke College of Technology in Hampshire now teaches its students how to use AI […]
Elderly villagers in Gotherington are taught how to use smartphones
Older people in a rural village are learning how to use their smartphones in sessions run by the council. The villagers of Gotherington in Gloucestershire are being taught how to use the NHS app, WhatsApp and emails. Tewkesbury Borough Council’s Lauren Woods, who runs the classes, said the village suffered from poor signal but wi-fi […]
What happens if TikTok is banned?
Watch: Can young Americans live without TikTok? TikTok will be banned in the US on 19 January – unless the Supreme Court accepts a last ditch legal bid from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, that to do so would be unconstitutional. But even if the country’s highest judicial authority agrees with the lower courts – and […]
Google faces UK investigation over search dominance
The UK’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into whether Google has too much power in online search. Google accounts for 90% of UK web searches – the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking at whether it is using that dominant position to harm competition or choice for users. It is its first investigation […]
The Birmingham women combatting loneliness by speed mating
Khiefa Gabbidon Space For Girls aims to help women connect with each other After finishing university and moving back to Birmingham, Khiefa Gabbidon struggled to make friends when she started work. The 22-year-old had a job in the tech industry which she described as a male-dominated field and said she did not have any women […]
All porn sites must ‘robustly’ verify UK user ages by July
Getty Images All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce “robust” age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card checks for UK users by July. The long-awaited guidance, issued by regulator Ofcom, has been made under the Online Safety Act (OSA), and is intended to […]
A life in the spotlight
Getty Images Linda Nolan and her singing sisters lived in the spotlight after their career-defining hit I’m In The Mood For Dancing in 1979 – meaning both their highs and lows were played out in public. The close-knit group, the original sisters – Linda, Anne, Denise, Maureen and Bernie (Coleen was initially too young) – […]
Badenoch criticises Tory handling of Brexit
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has criticised her predecessors for mishandling Brexit, saying leaving the EU without a growth plan was a “mistake”. In her first major speech of 2025, Badenoch will attack the Labour’s government but also her own party for repeatedly pledging to lower immigration as numbers “kept going up” and for promising net […]
Israeli air strikes continue in Gaza after ceasefire deal announced
AFP Journalist Ahmad Al-Shayah was reportedly killed overnight in Khan Younis Israeli air strikes are continuing in Gaza ahead of the ceasefire agreement and hostage deal with Hamas, which comes into effect on Sunday, subject to the Israeli cabinet’s approval. The strikes killed 62 people overnight, following the announcement of the deal, the Hamas-run health […]
Fatbergs turned into perfume: Britain’s new industrial revolution
BBC In a gleaming laboratory in Edinburgh, robotic machines whirr and mix. The final product that they are creating will be a pine-smelling chemical that can be used as an ingredient in perfumes. But the starting point is very different: a brown, gloopy, fat mixture, recently fished out from below ground – fatbergs. Fatbergs are […]