Graduate designs ‘easily repairable’ kettle to tackle e-waste
BBC Graduate Gabriel Kay with a prototype of his repairable kettle A university graduate from Leicester has designed a kettle he says can be fixed by anyone with a screwdriver. Gabriel Kay, 22, wants to help tackle what has been called the UK’s “e-waste tsunami”. Various parts of the prototype kettle can be replaced if […]
What happened to Malibu’s horses when the fire hit
Getty Images Wildfires are becoming more common in Southern California – where horse riding is a popular pastime. So what happens to horses when disaster hits? The call came in the middle of the night. “There’s a fire in Malibu, go check on your horse,” Jocelyn Writer, a model living in Los Angeles, was told. […]
Is there something special about the human voice?
Estudio Santa Rita Artificial intelligence-powered speech synthesisers can now hold eerily realistic spoken conversations, putting on accents, whispering and even cloning the voices of others. So how can we tell them apart from the human voice? These days it’s quite easy to strike up a conversation with AI. Ask a question of some chatbots, and they’ll […]
Ipswich community charity celebrates new building
Jon Wright/BBC Anjali Sule and Pratchi Katdare, from the ICM integration team, are both co-founders of the charity A charity which gives English language classes to migrants and asylum seekers has celebrated moving to a larger town centre building. Ipswich Community Media (ICM) has taken over two floors of Westgate House in Museum Street. Nikki […]
DeAndre Jordan: ‘I care so much about the environment’
NBA teams travel large distances across the US as part of their playing schedule. In recent years the organisation has changed its scheduling to reduce travel. For instance, teams may play the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic – both based in Florida – on the same trip. According to Earth Day, in the 2022-23 season […]
Grace Clinton: How England’s ‘next superstar’ caught Sarina Wiegman’s eye
Ever since her days at Everton, Clinton has been tipped to become a star. The midfielder stepped up to the first-team squad under former Toffees boss Willie Kirk aged just 16 during the 2020-21 pre-season campaign. She was an unused substitute in their FA Cup final defeat by Manchester City later that season and earned […]
Kathleen Turner diss has the whole world guessing
BBC Turner found fame in such films as Body Heat and Romancing the Stone Kathleen Turner has set the cat amongst the pigeons by accusing an unnamed actress of “playing the same role for 20 years”. In a frank interview with Vulture, the 64-year-old pours scorn on the unidentified star for “only giving people what […]
Trusting Channel Islands at greater risk of fraud
Andy Les Gresley Doug Melville says anyone targeted by scammers should report the crime immediately Islanders in Guernsey and Jersey are particularly susceptible to financial fraud due to their “trusting” communities, the chief executive of Channel Islands’ Financial Ombudsman says. Doug Melville such scams were increasing and a “battle” that the public needed better defences […]
NDA opens cyber security hub near Sellafield to tackle IT threats
NDA The Group Cyberspace Collaboration Centre is at Herdus House in Cumbria A nuclear body has launched a cyber security hub to help protect itself from IT threats. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) opened the centre at Herdus House in Moor Row, near the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. It said the Group Cyberspace Collaboration […]
Women’s Champions League returns: What to look out for in 2022-23 quarter-finals
Big games call for big stadiums and each of the quarter-final teams will play in their club’s larger ground which is usually used for the men’s teams. That’s eight iconic stadiums. Champions League debutantes Roma will host Barcelona at Italy’s Stadio Olimpico before travelling to the Nou Camp for the second leg. Barcelona attracted enormous […]