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Taylor Swift secures seventh UK number one single with Toy Story 5 song

Taylor Swift secures seventh UK number one single with Toy Story 5 song

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Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Taylor Swift has secured her seventh UK number one single with “I Knew It, I Knew You,” a track featured in the upcoming Toy Story 5 film. The song, co-written by Swift for the movie’s official soundtrack, is set to be released on June 19. This latest chart-topper sees Swift join an elite group of artists, including Michael Jackson, George Michael, and U2, all of whom boast seven UK number one singles. “I Knew It, I Knew You” is said to evoke her country roots, having been penned and produced by Swift alongside Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff. Her previous chart successes include “Look What You Made Me Do” (2017), “Anti-Hero” (2022), “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version)” (2023), “Fortnight” (2024), “The Fate Of Ophelia” (2025), and “Opalite” (2025). Meanwhile, Niall Horan is celebrating a hat-trick of number one albums, achieving the biggest opening …

‘Mormon Wives’ Star Miranda Hope to Release Debut Single ‘FU4THAT’

‘Mormon Wives’ Star Miranda Hope to Release Debut Single ‘FU4THAT’

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The rumors are true. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Miranda Hope is venturing into music. Hope is set to release her debut single, “FU4THAT,” a country song, on June 26. The track is expected to launch her country music career. (See the official art above.) “Stepping into music feels like the natural next chapter for me,” Hope said in a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve spent the last few years building a platform through television and social media, but music has always been where I felt most connected to myself. This release represents a new challenge, a new audience and an opportunity to share a different side of who I am.” News of Hope’s official release of “FU4THAT” comes after the reality star previously teased on social media that a music project might be in the works. THR has learned that music is a passion Hope has been pursuing behind the scenes. Hope joined Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives in season two. The series follows a group of Mormon …

Every Single Watch James Bond Has Worn

Every Single Watch James Bond Has Worn

Published by Jenni Sidey

James Bond may only officially be MI6’s most valuable asset, but across 25 films, he’s evolved into a cultural powerhouse. Men want to steal 007’s looks, his clothes, and his cars. However, Bond’s love of watches transcends his style and even the films themselves. In the movies, the timepieces often come alive as important plot points that Bond uses to get himself out of trouble. Then, back in the real world, the watches he wears become highly collectible, none more so than a special variant of the Rolex Submariner. When it comes to Bond’s collector status, the oft-asked question is whether 007 is a Rolex or an Omega guy? However, this does a disservice to the superspy’s deep bag of watches he’s worn since the debut of Dr. No in 1962. While Rolex and Omega feature heavily on Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan, five additional brands have been spotted on Bond’s wrist in between them. Bond, like any good horophile, has an extensive collection and switches out what’s on his wrist frequently enough that 26 …

Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100

Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100

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Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere’s North Mini Code, which launched Tuesday, generated three times the output tokens of comparable models in independent testing, a verbosity cost that compounds in high-volume production workloads. The new open-source model is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 3 billion parameters active per token, built for agentic software engineering including sub-agent orchestration, architecture mapping, code review and terminal work. The model supports a 256,000 token context window with a 64,000 token maximum generation length, and is available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. What North Mini Code can do North Mini Code targets the full agentic coding stack. Here is what the model does and what it runs on. Software engineering. Cohere built North Mini Code specifically for agentic software engineering, not adapted from a general-purpose base. It has integrated tool-use capabilities and supports interleaved thinking, which Cohere says improves performance …

I compared ChatGPT and Gemini’s AI image generation – and a single prompt tweak made a big difference

I compared ChatGPT and Gemini’s AI image generation – and a single prompt tweak made a big difference

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Kerry Wan and Tharon Green/ZDNET Stay ahead of tech news with Tech Today, delivered to your inbox every morning. Welcome to Prompt of the Day, where we show you an AI prompt you can use for work, play, or anything in between, sourced from our community of AI experts and professionals.  Also: Compare new models with our AI Model Release Tracker Struggling to use AI image generators? Today’s prompt comes from ZDNET contributor Lance Whitney, who suggests letting a chatbot design the perfect image-creating query for its corresponding generator.  Prompt:  I would like to create an image of a sunflower made of sheet metal in a pencil drawing style. Generate a prompt that I can use to request this image from [Nano Banana or ChatGPT Images].  The process is simple: “In my prompt, I supply just the basic details of what I want and then ask the AI to generate a full prompt based on that,” Whitney said.  Another benefit: When chatbots design their own image prompts, they avoid including language that the generator might flag …

I finally added Dolby Atmos to my home theater without drilling a single hole

I finally added Dolby Atmos to my home theater without drilling a single hole

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Wireless speakers, soundbars, phones, TVs, and many other product categories adorn the Dolby Atmos logo, but the only way to enjoy the full Atmos experience is with a multi-speaker surround sound system. This is a barrier to people interested in hearing object-based masters, because building a Dolby Atmos home theater gets expensive fast. It’s not just the cost of the speakers, it’s also everything else. A receiver compatible with Dolby Atmos and the mounting gear required to position the satellite speakers correctly further drives up the cost. The characteristic that separates Dolby Atmos from other surround sound formats is its support for height, meaning you can hear sounds coming from above you. This also proves to be the trickiest dimension to add to your surround sound system. People think that installing height speakers requires drilling or cutting into their ceiling, but that’s not the only way to achieve Dolby Atmos sound. You can use up-firing speakers to enjoy a similar effect, and setup is painless. It’s what I did, and my setup now offers Atmos …

A single gene may explain why some males live fast and die young

A single gene may explain why some males live fast and die young

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A small fish that lives fast and dies young has given biologists a rare look at one of evolution’s oldest bargains. In the African turquoise killifish, researchers traced that bargain to a single gene called vgll3, which helped push males toward faster growth and earlier sexual maturity. But the same shift also came with a darker side: shorter lives, more age-related tumors, and a higher risk of melanoma-like cancers in old age. The finding offers unusually direct evidence for antagonistic pleiotropy, a long-debated theory of aging that holds that some genes are favored because they improve early-life success, even if they cause damage later on. “We have effectively caught evolution in the act of making a trade-off,” said Dr. Itamar Harel of Hebrew University. “For years, we’ve asked why our bodies can’t just maintain themselves indefinitely. This gene gives us a direct answer: nature doesn’t prioritize longevity; it prioritizes continuity. We are built to sprint, not to marathon.” The killifish is an emerging model for investigating the genetic architecture of aging and age-related pathologies, which …

BBC presenter Emma Barnett ‘cannot remember a single thing’ about broadcast due to health condition that’s ‘a living death’

BBC presenter Emma Barnett ‘cannot remember a single thing’ about broadcast due to health condition that’s ‘a living death’

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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 BBC presenter Emma Barnett has opened up about her “horrific” experience with endometriosis – revealing that she can’t “remember a single thing” about a radio broadcast after being hit with intense pain. The Today host, 41, revealed in 2024 that she had been diagnosed with endometriosis, a condition where cells that are similar to those in the lining of the womb grow in other parts of the body. It can cause severe period pains, heavy periods and in some cases, low moods, pelvic pain and fatigue. Barnett has been vocal about the debilitating pain she suffers as a result of the condition, which caused her to blackout during an episode of Woman’s Hour from the agony. “There was a 75th anniversary of Woman’s Hour,” she told Metro on Tuesday (2 June). “And my producer at the time looked at me just …

What’s the Rush? Why Some People Choose to Stay Single

What’s the Rush? Why Some People Choose to Stay Single

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many singles have weathered the question from close friends and family members: “You aren’t married yet?” Often, singles who face this inquiry are the ones who seem to be completely satisfied with singlehood—much to the dismay of parents eager to become grandparents. Happy single riders are not always averse to partnering up; they are just not in any rush. Research reveals some of the reasons behind the will to wait. Avoiding the Rush and Enjoying the Ride Leah E. LeFebvre and Heather A. Love (2026) explored the reasons for choosing to be single among 369 college students, including reasons for never having become involved romantically.[i] They found that young people who had never been in a romantic relationship reported a lesser degree of relationship readiness as well as less dating and romantic experiences overall compared with their peers, as well as their own ideals. However, this group was also more likely to anticipate having more future dating prospects. Why the hesitation? LeFebvre and Love found that social context and apprehensiveness were among the primary themes …