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Harry and William’s cousin snubs one prince for her wedding – ‘doesn’t owe him anything’ | Royal | News

Harry and William’s cousin snubs one prince for her wedding – ‘doesn’t owe him anything’ | Royal | News

Published by Sam Flores

Prince William and Prince Harry’s cousin has only invited one of them to her wedding – avoiding a potentially awkward encounter. Lady Amelia Windsor, 31, is a fashion model, environmentalist, and daughter of the King’s second cousin George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, and Canadian aristocrat and academic Sylvana Tomaselli. Ms Windsor will be marrying property developer Ollie Lewis in May next year, in what’s likely to be a high profile event. But The Sun reports that only William and wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales have been sent save the date notices – and not Harry and his wife Meghan Markle. Ms Windsor wasn’t invited to Harry’s nuptials at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, the outlet reports. The newspaper quoted a source as saying she the guestlist has been curated and drafted before the news of the Sussexes arrival in Britain. The couple had spent the last six years living in California with their two young children, Archie and Lilibet, before making a surprise return to the UK in late August. The source …

This CIO doesn’t ‘hire engineers to write code’: 3 AI fundamentals he prioritizes instead

This CIO doesn’t ‘hire engineers to write code’: 3 AI fundamentals he prioritizes instead

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DragonImages/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images ZDNET’s key takeaways Agentic AI shifts professionals’ responsibilities. Embed agents deep into operational processes. Secure services and reliable outputs are crucial. Evidence suggests that delivering value from AI is hard. With 91% of professionals saying their firm still falls short on AI, business leaders and professionals have lots of work to do to ensure emerging tech explorations become useful production services. Also: Why replacing staff with AI backfires: 5 ways smart leaders generate real value instead Gill Haus, chief information officer at Chase, the consumer banking arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co, recognized that creating value in the age of AI is about much more than deciding to implement a hyped-up model or service. “Saying that you’re going to be efficient by putting a target in place is not the same thing as reimagining your processes through an agentic lens,” he told ZDNET. Haus said it’s crucial to understand that roles and responsibilities will shift, and AI is already transforming the work that Chase staff fulfill, both …

What Bush Understood That Trump Doesn’t

What Bush Understood That Trump Doesn’t

Published by Sam Flores

The current New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has affronted one of his predecessors, Rudy Giuliani, by taking the inflammatory step of deciding to attend the city’s 9/11 commemoration. “It offends me,” Giuliani proclaimed earlier this week on Newsmax. One might suspect that the nature of Mamdani’s offense lay in his being a politician who is associating himself with a day that Giuliani prefers to associate with Giuliani. But the former mayor proceeded to lay out a much darker rationale. “They’re taking over certain parts of America and certain parts of Europe. They have every desire to take us over. This is not ‘they want to be just another religion,’” he said of Muslims. “Mamdani is a clear, a clear supporter of that. All of the Muslims he supports are murderers!” Like many of Giuliani’s utterances, this one has no connection to reality. Yet his assertion that Mamdani harbors some secret desire to conquer the United States in the name of Islam, that his religion is the skeleton key to a web of sinister motivations, …

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features

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The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 come not just with better fitness tracking and upgraded noise reduction, but also a whole new way to listen. Apple announced on Wednesday that the two smartwatches come with four opt-in “audio intelligence” tools that are powered by audio gathered by the watches’ microphones. They include sound and music recognition, a conversation recap feature, and “Live Rewind” so a user can see a transcription of anything that was said in their environment in the previous 15 seconds. Seemingly wary that the features could make it feel like the walls have ears, Apple is emphasizing that all of them are built to prioritize privacy and security using the extensive infrastructure the company has developed to protect its other Apple Intelligence and Siri services. As more and more of these types of features debut, though, the audio intelligence announcements are a reminder that AI-powered tools are becoming increasingly universal in all areas of computing and life. “These features do not create or store audio recordings, and raw audio …

Windows finally has the app store it deserves, and Microsoft doesn’t run it

Windows finally has the app store it deserves, and Microsoft doesn’t run it

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Setting up a fresh Windows PC these days is still old-school for an operating system that runs so much of the corporate world. One app comes from the Microsoft Store, another requires an installer from some random developer’s site, and a third is easiest to install from Terminal. Then, once everything is installed, many of those apps bring along their own background updater and start pestering you separately. Microsoft has had much of the underlying plumbing needed to make this cleaner for years. What it has never really done is wrap that infrastructure in a simple interface most people would actually want to use. That is where UniGetUI comes in. It pulls those scattered package sources into one place and gives you a single interface for installing, updating, and managing apps. UniGetUI makes the scattered way Windows handles software much harder to justify. Related 5 package managers that work on Windows, Mac, and Linux If reinstalling software feels repetitive, these tools have some ideas. Windows has an app distribution problem Microsoft built a package manager …

Star Wars keeps getting bigger, but The Mandalorian and Grogu work because it doesn’t

Star Wars keeps getting bigger, but The Mandalorian and Grogu work because it doesn’t

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Star Wars has spent decades making its universe bigger. Every show/movie introduces more planets, more factions, crime families, and political conflicts than most people could reasonably keep track of. That’s part of what makes the stories so much fun, but it can also make some entries feel like homework. The Mandalorian and Grogu take a much simpler approach to its storytelling. The movie has the New Republic, former Imperial warlords, Jabba the Hutt’s kids, and plenty of connections to the wider Star Wars universe. But Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) still has a very easy mission that doesn’t require pre-existing knowledge of any previous lore. Release Date May 20, 2026 Runtime 132 minutes Director Jon Favreau Pedro Pascal The Mandalorian Jeremy Allen White Rotta (voice) Sigourney Weaver Colonel Ward Brendan Wayne The Mandalorian Suit Performer The Mandalorian and Grogu is basically a Western in space Din just needs to get the job done The setup for The Mandalorian and Grogu could almost be another episode of the popular Disney+ series, which debuted in 2019. Din gets …

2024 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter

2024 Eastern Division Presidential Address: Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter

Published by Jenni Sidey

Below is the audio recording of Lisa Tessman’s presidential address, “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter,” given at the 2024 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter” by Lisa Tessman Lisa Tessman is Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University and a senior researcher at the University of Oslo, where she is currently doing collaborative work on the topic of moral residue. She has a B.A. in philosophy from Carleton College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her area of specialization is ethics, including normative ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, and feminist ethics. Her publications include When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible (Oxford University Press, 2017), Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality (Oxford University Press, 2015), Burdened Virtues: Virtues Ethics for Liberatory Struggles (Oxford University Press, 2005), as well as a number of articles in …

Crime is falling – but the public doesn’t feel safer, study finds

Crime is falling – but the public doesn’t feel safer, study finds

Published by Sam Flores

Crime levels are falling for most offences across the UK – but the public doesn’t necessarily feel safer. It’s a human trait to focus on frightening information in the news or on social media – but it could also mean that people are more fearful about crime than they need to be. Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage claimed last month that “everyone knows” law and order in the UK is in a worse place than it was five or ten years ago. Farage was launching a new Reform policy document called Keeping Criminals Behind Bars. More than eight in ten of the British public really do believe that crime has gone up in the past few years. But as a study I was recently involved in shows, this sense of increasing lawlessness is based on very faulty perceptions of trends in actual crime rates. Eight in ten of the UK public think mobile phone thefts have increased since 2010 and around six in ten believe both vehicle-related thefts and burglary have increased. In fact, all …

Escape to the Chateau’s Dick and Angel Strawbridge’s new chapter leaves fans flabbergasted: ‘It doesn’t seem possible!’

Escape to the Chateau’s Dick and Angel Strawbridge’s new chapter leaves fans flabbergasted: ‘It doesn’t seem possible!’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Dick and Angel Strawbridge have left fans flabbergasted after sharing photos of their children Arthur, 13, and Dorothy, 12. The duo are heading back to school, so Angel shared their “obligatory first day” photos, but fans could not believe just how grown up they are. Dorothy and Arthur are going back to school and fans couldn’t believe how grown up they look Dorothy looked lovely, wearing a striped T-shirt and oversized jeans. Meanwhile, Arthur opted for a leopard print shirt over a red shirt, dark denim shorts and brown loafers. Angel penned: “Hello to you on this truly Wonderful Wednesday! As promised…the obligatory first day of school photos! And just like that, another school year begins! We hope you’ve had a lovely day, wherever you are and whatever you’ve been up to XXX.” “It doesn’t seem possible that they are that grown up! Oh, how I loved watching your show!” one fan penned. A second added: “They’re so grown up, and just so kind, and it just really shows what a beautiful family they all …

Is motion sickness preventable? What works and what doesn’t

Is motion sickness preventable? What works and what doesn’t

Published by Sam Flores

Historically associated with sailors reacting to the pitch, roll and yaw of ships, motion sickness now affects people in cars, trains, planes and even in space. The symptoms can start within minutes of feeling movement and last for hours after it stops. Classic motion sickness often begins with feeling warm, sweaty and dizzy. You might also develop a headache or feel fatigued. As the condition worsens, nausea sets in and can lead to vomiting. While motion sickness is generally temporary, it can hold you back from travelling and other activities you enjoy, sometimes in life-changing ways. James Phillips, a vestibular neurophysiologist at the University of Washington, said he had planned to be a marine biologist until he spent time on a research expedition vomiting over the side of the boat. “I just couldn’t tolerate it, so I abandoned that career ambition,” he said. We asked experts what’s behind motion sickness and which of the products to treat or prevent it – from glasses and bracelets to medications – really work. WHY DO PEOPLE REACT THIS WAY …