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Rescued bull named after David Attenborough in 100th birthday tribute

Rescued bull named after David Attenborough in 100th birthday tribute

Published by Daniella Wilson

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 Animal rights charity Peta has named a “wise” bull Sir Attenbullock, a unique tribute to celebrate nature broadcaster Sir David Attenborough’s upcoming 100th birthday on 8 May. The bull, named Sir Attenbullock to celebrate his birthday on May 8, will be mentioned in a letter sent to Sir David by Peta founder Ingrid Newkirk. The letter will tell him the animal was among the first rescued through Peta India’s Delhi mechanisation project. This initiative aims to replace animal-drawn carts with electric vehicles so the overworked animals can retire. In her letter, Ms Newkirk writes that Sir Attenbullock is “strong, yet gentle”, which she says he shares with Sir David, and adds that he also “quietly inspires others to appreciate the richness of the natural world”. She added: “He has a presence that draws people into his world, including visiting children. He …

EuroHPC and Bull collab to deploy AI supercomputer at Mimer AIF

EuroHPC and Bull collab to deploy AI supercomputer at Mimer AIF

Published by skeptic

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Bull to deploy a new AI supercomputer in Linköping, Sweden. The system will underpin the next phase of the Mimer AI Factory (AIF) initiative, expanding Europe’s AI infrastructure. The AI supercomputer will be hosted and operated by the National Academic Infrastructure of Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS) at Linköping University. It will support the Mimer AIF in combining cloud-enabled supercomputing, large-scale sensitive data storage, and advanced software layers to accelerate AI development across multiple industries. The immediate result is a significant increase in computing capacity and service capability within the Mimer AIF ecosystem. This expansion is expected to strengthen Sweden’s role in Europe’s AI Factory network while enabling more advanced applications across healthcare, materials science, and autonomous systems. What does the Mimer AIF expansion actually deliver? The new AI supercomputer is designed to move Mimer AIF from a support platform into a high-capacity AI development hub. It integrates compute, storage, and specialised expertise into a single environment aimed at production-level AI workloads. This includes …

Verstappen’s race engineer Lambiase to leave Red Bull for McLaren

Verstappen’s race engineer Lambiase to leave Red Bull for McLaren

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON, April 9 : Max Verstappen’s long-time Formula One race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase is to leave Red Bull and join McLaren in a supporting role to team principal Andrea Stella. There was no immediate comment from either team on Thursday but senior insiders confirmed the move, first reported in Dutch media, to Reuters. The news was also reported by the BBC and Sky Sports, with 2028 given as the likely start date for a man who has been working with Verstappen since 2016 and has played a key role in helping the Dutch driver to four world championships. Lambiase, 45, had also been linked with Silverstone-based Aston Martin, whose team principal is former Red Bull star designer Adrian Newey. STELLA SET TO STAY AS PRINCIPAL While Aston Martin have endured a nightmare start to the season, struggling to even finish races with an uncompetitive Honda engine, McLaren won both titles last year with champion Lando Norris and teammate Oscar Piastri. Lambiase is expected to become head of race engineering at McLaren once a potentially long …

Verstappen calls his Red Bull ‘undriveable’ after more F1 woes at Japan GP | Motorsports News

Verstappen calls his Red Bull ‘undriveable’ after more F1 woes at Japan GP | Motorsports News

Published by Sam Flores

Kimi Antonelli and George Russell claim a Mercedes 1-2 at Suzuka but Max Verstappen’s Red Bull struggles continue. Published On 28 Mar 202628 Mar 2026 A despondent Max Verstappen labelled his Red Bull car “undriveable” after the four-time world champion qualified a lowly 11th for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix. The Dutchman, who has won at Suzuka for the past four years, dropped out in Q2 in another qualifying nightmare to compound a difficult start to the season. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list He crashed out in Q3 in the season opener in Australia and has consistently railed against new Formula One regulations that see a 50-50 split between conventional and electrical power. “The car never turns mid-corner, but at the same time this weekend, it’s just oversteering a lot on entry. It’s really difficult, unpredictable,” Verstappen, who took pole last year with a track-record lap time, told Sky Sports F1. “We thought we’d fixed it a little bit in FP3 (third practice), I mean there was still a lot of understeer in …

Hiker finds 3,000-year-old bull sculpture in Spain

Hiker finds 3,000-year-old bull sculpture in Spain

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A hiker recently noticed an out-of-place object in his path while trekking through the hills of Mallorca, Spain. After reviewing the artifact, archaeologists now believe the 1.25-inch-long relic is a rare example of a metal bull sculpture that dates back over 3,000 years. “This small bronze piece could be part of a larger object: either the head of a small statuette or a decorative motif originally affixed to the horn of a larger bull’s head,” archaeologist Jaume Deyà told Diario de Mallorca in a statement translated from Spanish. The artisans crafted the piece—known as a tauriform—during the post-Talaiotic period (550–123 BCE).  Emerging from the earlier Talaiotic era (850–550 BCE), the Bronze Age cultures are named for their monumental stone towers called talaiots. The post-Talaiotic period is particularly known for innovations in pottery, fortified architecture, and metallurgy. Bulls featured prominently throughout prehistoric Mediterranean agrarian communities, often as symbols for seasonal cycles, strength, and especially fertility. The most recent find is …

Bull sharks make ‘friends’—and prefer females to males

Bull sharks make ‘friends’—and prefer females to males

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) have a really bad reputation. The ocean’s bad boys are responsible for at least 100 unprovoked attacks on humans, 27 of which have been fatal. However, the species may be responsible for more attacks. A bull shark was likely behind the real encounters that inspired the award-winning novel and film Jaws.  However, these 12-foot-long, solitary sharks appear to form important social bonds. A study published today in the journal Animal Behaviour finds that they create these relationships with only a few specific “friends.” Instead of mixing at random, they appear to actively choose who they spend time with and have preferences. “As humans we cultivate a range of social relationships—from casual acquaintances to our best friends, but we also actively avoid certain people—and these bull sharks are doing similar things,” Natasha D. Marosi, a study co-author and founder of Fiji Shark Lab, said in a statement.  Over six years, a team from the University of …

Betting Men: Inside Kalshi and Polymarket’s Bull Market

Betting Men: Inside Kalshi and Polymarket’s Bull Market

Published by Sam Flores

Markets also tend to be good at prediction. An election market created by three economists at the University of Iowa in 1988 beat the polls in at least three elections, and on Wall Street, futures markets have proved very good at forecasting. Considering this brief history, it’s somewhat curious that prediction markets haven’t gained wider traction. Other examples of futures markets—like the Hollywood Stock Exchange, launched in 1996 to let traders wager on box office results, and PredictIt, a forecasting site founded in 2014—have repeatedly faced pushback from both institutions and regulators. But today’s prediction-market boom seems destined to last, for two reasons. The first is that these markets have found unusually warm support in Washington under the second Trump administration, where they are treated like the hottest new civic innovation project. Devin Nunes, the former congressman and current CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, has described them as tools that “empower everyday Americans to harness the wisdom of the crowd.” Donald Trump Jr. serves as a special adviser to both Kalshi and Polymarket, …

Toto Wolff claims Red Bull have ‘one-second’ advantage

Toto Wolff claims Red Bull have ‘one-second’ advantage

Published by Sam Flores

Toto Wolff has installed Red Bull as the new “benchmark” team for 2026, claiming Max Verstappen was able to go “a-second-a-lap” faster than everyone else on the straights on the opening morning of testing in Bahrain on Tuesday. Mercedes had been widely considered the favourites for the forthcoming season based on the fact their power unit was said to be best in class, thanks to exploiting a “loophole” in compression ratio rules. However, while the argument over those rules continues to rage – Wolff on Wednesday called on the FIA and FOM, who have to sign off on any changes, to avoid siding with the “gamesmanship” of rival manufacturers – the Austrian said he had revised his opinion on the pecking order, describing Red Bull as “very much the benchmark”. Speaking during the lunch break in Bahrain testing, after Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes’ George Russell had engaged in a long-run head-to-head on the opening morning, Wolff said the compression-ratio loophole was worth no more than “a few horsepower, maybe 2-3bhp”. Red Bull’s superior …