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GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes admitted to hospital after stroke

GB News presenter Eamonn Holmes admitted to hospital after stroke

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter TV presenter Eamonn Holmes is in hospital following a stroke, GB News has said. The 66-year-old is “responding well to treatment”, according to the statement. “Eamonn was taken ill last week and it was later confirmed he had suffered a stroke,” the broadcaster announced. The statement added that his “colleagues and everyone at GB News wish him a speedy recovery”, with CEO Angelos Frangopoulos describing Holmes as a “loved member of the GB News family”. Holmes joined GB News in 2022 to present its breakfast programme, having previously hosted ITV chat show This Morning. Fellow GB News presenter Alex Armstrong will stand in for Holmes while he recovers in the coming week, the channel said. In recent years, Holmes has been candid about his “horrendous” health issues, stating that he largely uses a wheelchair and requires carers “throughout the day”. The …

The Head of the FBI Just Admitted Something Moderately Horrifying

The Head of the FBI Just Admitted Something Moderately Horrifying

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Turns out the FBI’s been on a shopping spree. And it’s not just any spending binge: as director Kash Patel made clear at a senate hearing on Wednesday, the agency is buying up location data on everyday American citizens. “We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act,” Patel admitted under oath, “and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us.” Since 2017, the supreme court has required warrants for any US law enforcement agency that wants to collect cell location data — but only if it’s obtained direct from a subject’s mobile carrier. Commercial data brokers, however, represent a grey-market alternative. By purchasing location history from third-party data companies, the FBI can bypass the warrant requirement altogether. As Politico notes in its reporting on the senate hearing, numerous civil liberty groups have challenged the practice in court, but the loophole is still wide enough to …

Harvard Kennedy School sets contingency plans for admitted service members after Pentagon order

Harvard Kennedy School sets contingency plans for admitted service members after Pentagon order

Published by Sam Flores

The Harvard Kennedy School is setting contingency plans for admitted service members in place following the Pentagon’s decision to suspend its academic partnerships with the university last month.  In a Wednesday letter to U.S. service members who applied to the school’s graduate programs, Dean Jeremy Weinstein said the school will offer an extended deferral period… Source link

King Harald of Norway admitted to hospital during holiday with wife Queen Sonja

King Harald of Norway admitted to hospital during holiday with wife Queen Sonja

Published by Daniella Wilson

King Harald of Norway has been admitted to a hospital in Spain, the royal palace has said. The 89-year-old monarch is being treated for an undisclosed infection and dehydration. Harald, who marked his 89th birthday on Saturday, is thought to have been on holiday in Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife with his wife, Queen Sonja. © GettyKing Harald has been admitted to hospital in Spain The royal, who has been Norway’s king since 1991, was admitted to Hospital Universitario Hospiten Sur on Tuesday evening. He is reported to be in good condition.  A statement from the palace  The announcement was made on Tuesday evening by The Royal House of Norway. The statement read: “His Majesty the King (Harald V) was admitted this evening to Hospital Universitario Hospiten Sur in Tenerife. The King is being treated for an infection and dehydration, and his condition is, under the circumstances, good.” WATCH: Meet the Norwegian Royal Family The king’s personal physician will travel to Tenerife and an update will be provided after he has assessed the situation, the …

No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York

No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York

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Over 160 companies in New York state have filed notices of mass layoffs since last March. None—in a group that includes Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and other employers that are adopting AI tools—attributed their workforce cuts in those filings to “technological innovation or automation.” That option was added 11 months ago to a required question on paperwork that businesses with 50 or more employees must file with the state to notify of sizable job losses. New York’s Department of Labor told WIRED that, as of the end of January, no employer had marked tech as the reason for their workforce reduction. Over the past couple of years, many companies have celebrated offloading repetitive tasks such as customer service, sales, and accounting to AI systems. But saying that they are dumping human workers in favor of AI agents or robots can risk reputational harm. And economists face challenges tracing layoffs to tech advancements because companies can take decades to fully reorganize around new ways of working. Enter New York governor Kathy Hochul. To get a better handle …

Palestine Action-linked remand prisoner Umer Khalid admitted to hospital | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Palestine Action-linked remand prisoner Umer Khalid admitted to hospital | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Published by Sam Flores

After his heart rate slowed and organs failed due to his hunger strike, Umer Khalid, 22, has been hospitalised again. Listen to this article | 3 mins info London, United Kingdom – A British pro-Palestine remand prisoner whose hunger strike brought him to the brink of death is being treated in hospital again, his family understands, renewing fears for his health. Umer Khalid, 22, last spoke to his mother, Shabana, by phone on January 26 from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. He had been rushed to intensive care a day earlier with a dangerously slow heart rate and organ failure. Soon after, he ended his 17-day hunger strike protest. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list She has not heard from him since. The prison informed her on January 28 that he had returned to hospital and was being monitored. But Khalid’s mother told Al Jazeera that prison authorities are not forthcoming with further information about his condition or level of care, despite her repeated calls and emails. “I fear for his life,” she told Al …

LG is done with 8K TVs, and it’s about time we admitted the tech failed

LG is done with 8K TVs, and it’s about time we admitted the tech failed

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Samsung’s QN990F 8K TV was a competing model in 2025, but there are fewer signs of such offerings this year. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways LG has officially stopped making 8K TVs. The technology was expensive, and there was little content. You’ll likely see a push now for image quality over resolution. Is 8K TV finally dead? Maybe not officially, but the technology that never quite caught on certainly seems to be on the way out as another manufacturer has pulled the plug. According to a report from flatpanelshd.com, LG is officially halting production on all 8K TVs. From what I can tell, this leaves Samsung as the only remaining manufacturer — and its 2026 lineup announcement at CES a few weeks ago made no mention of 8K.  Speaking to flatpanelshd.com, the company framed the decision as a temporary hold and said it would be ready to resume if customer interest changed. I’ve reached out to LG for more details. Now that LG is out, …

Fans Furious at What Andrew Huberman Just Admitted

Fans Furious at What Andrew Huberman Just Admitted

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chance Yeh / Getty Images for Hubspot The neuroscientist, health guru, and controversial podcaster Andrew Huberman just revealed something that has his fans fuming — but also not all that surprised. During a nearly three-hour interview with British bodybuilding legend Dorian Yates, Huberman asked the six-time Mr. Olympia winner about his thoughts on starting testosterone replacement therapy, which is basically the medically-supervised way of taking steroids. And the reason Huberman was interested, it turned out, is because he himself was on the stuff. “I’m on low-dose TRT. I started when I was 45,” Huberman said, claiming he had been “very open” about his use. “About 125 milligrams a week.” This in itself is not controversial. Plenty of people are receiving gender-affirming care of one type or another. But Huberman — who made a name for himself by bringing a veneer of a science-backed approach to health discussions — is a huge biohacking nut who preaches about taking all kinds of supplements to “reverse aging,” and crucially to elevate …

Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI

Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI

Published by José Betancourt

Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Meta says it’s cutting off teenagers’ access to its AI characters — at least until it can build “better” ones. The Mark Zuckerberg company announced the change on Friday, signaling at least some degree of hesitation at the company over how young users are engaging with its chatbots amid mounting concern over the tech’s effects on mental health and safety. “Starting in the coming weeks, teens will no longer be able to access AI characters across our apps until the updated experience is ready,” Meta said in an updated blog post. “This will apply to anyone who has given us a teen birthday, as well as people who claim to be adults but who we suspect are teens based on our age prediction technology.” The update follows an announcement from Meta in October, when it said that parents would be able to use new tools for supervising their children’s interactions with AI characters, including the  ability to cut off their access to the characters entirely. The announcement also described a feature …

Nvidia just admitted the general-purpose GPU era is ending

Nvidia just admitted the general-purpose GPU era is ending

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Nvidia’s $20 billion strategic licensing deal with Groq represents one of the first clear moves in a four-front fight over the future AI stack. 2026 is when that fight becomes obvious to enterprise builders. For the technical decision-makers we talk to every day — the people building the AI applications and the data pipelines that drive them — this deal is a signal that the era of the one-size-fits-all GPU as the default AI inference answer is ending. We are entering the age of the disaggregated inference architecture, where the silicon itself is being split into two different types to accommodate a world that demands both massive context and instantaneous reasoning. Why inference is breaking the GPU architecture in two To understand why Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dropped one-third of his reported $60 billion cash pile on a licensing deal, you have to look at the existential threats converging on his company’s reported 92% market share.  The industry reached a tipping point in late 2025: For the first time, inference — the phase where trained …