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Starmer ‘won’t walk away’ as Farage eats into England — live updates – POLITICO

Starmer ‘won’t walk away’ as Farage eats into England — live updates – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Prime Minister Keir Starmer insists he’s sticking around but he’s already facing substantial losses as results from Britain’s biggest set of elections since 2024 pour in. With counting still underway, Starmer’s Labour has shed more than 250 councillors in England, with Nigel Farage’s populist-right Reform UK the main beneficiary. It’s already picked up its first council, in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Starmer — facing major questions over his leadership — has told reporters he won’t “walk away and plunge the country into chaos.” Reform has added more than 400 councillors to its tally — with the left-wing Greens and centrist Liberal Democrats also making modest gains. So far it’s been a rough night for the center-right Conservatives, who have shed scores of councillors, although can point to some brighter spots in London. In play are more than 5,000 English councilors in 136 councils, including all 32 London boroughs; six mayors in England; all 129 members of the Scottish Parliament; plus all 96 members of an expanded Welsh parliament, the Senedd.  Follow our live blog for results, reaction and …

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Researchers are growing increasingly suspicious that outsourcing intellectual tasks to AI is causing a range of cognitive deficits. A new study adds a wrinkle worth paying attention to: that use of the bots can eat away at users’ faith in their own abilities, resulting in lower confidence in their own independent reasoning. The new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior and flagged by TIME, found that those who showed a heavy reliance on AI were more likely to admit chatbots were “thinking” for them — and seem to show decreased confidence in their own ideas. By the same token, participants who took control over their AI’s output by editing, questioning, or scrapping it showed a greater confidence and sense of ownership over the final output, even though the tools used were the same. As the study’s author Sarah Baldeo — a PhD candidate in AI and neuroscience at Middlesex University — told TIME, the …

Boredom Eats the Soul | Mind Matters

Boredom Eats the Soul | Mind Matters

Published by Jenni Sidey

This republished article first appeared in New English Review The atheist Karl Marx—whose belief in moral autonomy and non-belief in Hell was his opium—said that religion was the opium of the people. But nowadays, it seems technology, consumerism and opiates have replaced that for many. When we see more and more people today behaving like clones of one another, it’s tempting to ask ourselves: Are we entering the darkest night in history? Just like the children in the movie Village of the Damned, most young adults, not all, seem to be in a trance, void of any spiritual dimension or intellectual philosophical worldview. In the movie The Ghost Breakers, the actor Bob Hope learns about what a zombie is like when Richard Carlson tells him: “A zombie has no will of his own. You see them some times, walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.” To which Bob Hope replies: “You mean, like Democrats?” Democrats, Republicans, it’s all the same; one often witnesses this lemming-like behaviour, especially with young …

Burger King president happily eats Whopper after mockery over McDonald’s CEO’s taste test

Burger King president happily eats Whopper after mockery over McDonald’s CEO’s taste test

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Burger King has escalated its long-running rivalry with McDonald’s, with its president publicly poking fun at the fast food giant’s CEO after his viral burger taste test drew widespread ridicule. McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski recently faced mockery over a video of himself eating the brand’s new Big Arch Burger. In the comments, people ruthlessly pointed out how uncomfortable he looked while eating the burger and suggested that dining at the chain was not a regular occurrence for the executive. Others said he took the “smallest first bite ever” of the huge burger. Burger King has now posted its response to the viral moment, sharing a TikTok video Monday of Tom Curtis, the president of Burger King U.S. & Canada, taking an enthusiastic bite of …

Prisoners had drugs and weapons ‘delivered to order… as if by Uber Eats or Deliveroo’ | UK News

Prisoners had drugs and weapons ‘delivered to order… as if by Uber Eats or Deliveroo’ | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

A gang that used drones to smuggle drugs, weapons and phones into prisons has been jailed by a judge who likened their operation to “Uber Eats or Deliveroo”. Harrow Crown Court heard that Shafaghatullah Mohseni, 29, had orchestrated dozens of “drops” to inmates across London and southeast England between 2 December 2024 and 26 February last year. Image: (Clockwise from top left) Mohammed Hamoud, Zahar Essaghi, Mustafa Ibrahim, Faiz Salah, Emanuel Fisniku and Hashim Al Hussaini. Pics: Met Police Jurors were also told that Hashim Al Hussaini, 28; Mohammed Hamoud, 22; Faiz Salah, 29; Zahar Essaghi, 51; Mustafa Ibrahim, 30; and Emanuel Fisniku, 25; assisted the operation by acting as lookouts and drivers, and also received payments for the illicit shipments. According to the Metropolitan Police, the seven would travel by car to the prisons, often in the early hours of the morning, and fly packages filled with contraband through cell windows. The force added that the gang was responsible for 75% of all drone drops into London prisons between December 2024 and February 2025. …

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

Uber Eats launches AI assistant to help with grocery cart creation

Published by skeptic

Uber Eats announced a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” on Wednesday designed to fill customers’ grocery carts faster and easier. The beta version is now available in the app.​ To use the new chatbot, users search for a grocery store in the Uber Eats app and tap the purple Cart Assistant icon on the store’s page to begin shopping.  Customers can enter a list or upload an image of one, and Cart Assistant will automatically add the necessary items to their basket. This includes photos of handwritten lists or screenshots of recipes and their ingredients. Users can then customize the basket by swapping items for preferred brands or adding more products from the store.​ Image Credits:Uber Eats Uber Eats notes that Cart Assistant uses previous orders to prioritize familiar items — like your usual milk or favorite oatmeal — to make the experience more personalized.​ “Users were telling us they wanted a quicker way to shop, and we know how precious your time is,” Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said in a statement. “Cart Assistant …

How AI Will Smith eats spaghetti in 2026

How AI Will Smith eats spaghetti in 2026

Published by skeptic

If you want a glimpse at how far AI video generation has come since 2023, look no further than the “Will Smith eating spaghetti” test, which has basically become the Hello World of generative AI. In a video from a Reddit user on the r/OpenAI subreddit, the post shows the evolution of the test — from its humble beginnings as a monstrous, pixelated mess to something far more cinematic, even if you can still tell it’s AI. This version was made using the Kling 3.0 video generator, developed by Chinese tech company Kuaishou Technology. In it, Will Smith is seen at a dinner table not just eating spaghetti, but actually talking with a younger man seated across from him. They discuss the capabilities of Kling AI to create videos like the one you’re watching, making it pretty clear that this is an ad. Still, it offers a striking look at just how much generative video has matured in a remarkably short period of time. Three years isn’t that long — though, in AI terms, it …

Scientists discover why smoking loosens teeth and eats away at bone

Scientists discover why smoking loosens teeth and eats away at bone

Published by Jenni Sidey

The first place tobacco often shows its damage is not the lungs. It is the mouth. If you smoke, your gums face a daily chemical assault. Over time, that can turn mild irritation into a chronic disease that loosens teeth and eats away at bone. Scientists have long known smoking makes periodontitis worse. The condition is a severe, ongoing inflammation of gum tissue. It starts when microbes slip into the gums and the immune system reacts in an unhealthy way. As the reaction continues, gums pull back. The bone that anchors teeth weakens. Teeth can loosen and fall out. Now, researchers say they have pinned down key cellular changes that help explain why smokers often develop faster, more severe disease. A team from Sun Yat-sen University in China used a high-resolution method to map gene activity in gum tissue. Construction of a single-cell resolution spatial transcriptomic atlas of human gingivae. (CREDIT: International Journal of Oral Science) The study points to a chain reaction that begins at the gum surface, spreads through support cells, then escalates …