Cameras that detect illegal school parking could be installed
Getty Images The cameras would be used to catch parents parking illegally while dropping off their kids at school City-wide cameras to catch parents parking illegally while dropping off their kids at school could be installed. Bristol City Council will meet on Thursday to decide whether to introduce a trial of CCTV that can automatically […]
How the mournful songs of icebergs reverberate around the world
Getty Images Antarctica’s biggest icebergs act like giant tuning forks when they collide with each other and the sea floor (Credit: Getty Images) Icebergs produce some of the loudest natural noises in the oceans. Can we learn anything about their birth, life and death by listening in? Hemmed in by the sea ice that forms […]
Northumbria Police used face recognition to identify Sunderland riot suspects
Police used facial recognition technology to help identify suspects involved in the summer riots. Northumbria Police said it had used the software to help it make several arrests in Sunderland linked to the city’s disorder on 2 August. Cleveland and Durham forces did not use the technology to identify suspected rioters, the BBC has confirmed. […]
The violent birth of the Geminid meteor shower
Getty Images The Geminids are one of the astronomical highlights of the year, creating a spectacular show of shooting stars every December. Scientists are now starting to understand where they came from. Scientists think that around this time, something catastrophic happened to an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon, causing it to crumble and fling bits of […]
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 […]
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 […]