GSK heads to Cambridge with long-awaited positive vibes | Nils Pratley
“A vote of confidence in British business,” trumpeted Andy Burnham, seizing the political gift of GSK splashing out £400m on a shiny new research and development centre in Cambridge.
For positive vibes, it definitely beats the early pharma news his predecessor as prime minister received. That was the painful tale of how AstraZeneca, frustrated by indecision in the Treasury, cancelled its intended £450m expansion of a vaccine plant in Speke in Liverpool.
Some parents on benefits to get up to £4,500 if children take on apprenticeships
Some parents on benefits will be given up to £4,500 a year to encourage their children to start apprenticeships, the government has said.
Under plans to encourage young people into work, families will be offered a bursary to replace Universal Credit payments lost by starting jobs.
Five Hacks Every Ultrahuman Ring User Should Know
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Ultrahuman rings, including the new Ring Pro, come with an extensive app. Even before you activate any PowerPlugs (add-on features), there are plenty of graphs and numbers to get lost in. Here are a few hacks you should know to navigate the data deluge and make sure you're getting the most out of its clever hidden features.
Impact of climate change may be equivalent to 3.3 million years of transformations in tropical vegetation
The tropics cover less than one-third of Earth's surface but are home to more than half of all known species. Forests, savannas, grasslands and deserts: A vast array of environments stretches along the planet's equatorial belt. This diversity, however, is not static. It is the result of millions of years of changes that have reshaped the tropical landscape time and again.
If The AI Singularity Is Here, Where Is The Evidence?
Have we reached the singularity? getty
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has crossed a historic threshold with machines reaching a point of runaway capability that is beyond human control, but global AI adoption, real-world applications and economic data tell a different story. Altman said earlier this week that humanity has entered the technological singularity, the long imagined point when machine intelligence begins advancing faster than people can reliably predict or direct.
Women's Open: Charley Hull & Lottie Woad offer hope of another home winner at Royal Lytham & St Annes
Charley Hull began the week of the final golf major of the year by convincing her caddie Adam Woodward he had won a lottery prize worth £100,000.
Unfortunately for Woodward, Hull had bought the ticket in a Blackpool joke shop. The only way he can really hit the jackpot is if his boss breaks her major duck at this week's AIG Women's Open.
Online scam centres fuelling human trafficking worldwide, warns UN agency
IOM chief says victims from more than 80 countries are lured into scam centres through fake job offers on social media.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned that trafficking people through online scam centres has become one of the world’s “fastest-growing” forms of human trafficking, with victims from more than 80 countries duped into their criminal operations.
The Hundred 2026 results: Smriti Mandhana helps Manchester Super Giants beat Sunrisers Leeds
The Hundred women's competition, Headingley
Sunrisers Leeds 142-4 (100 balls): Sutherland 35 (24); Villiers 1-6
Manchester Super Giants 147-6 (96 balls): Mandhana 88* (50); Baker 1-9
Manchester Super Giants won by four wickets
Scammers Are Impersonating Spotify to Steal Your Credit Card Info
Emily Long
Emily Long
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Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City.
After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of Atlantic Media Company, in Washington, D.C. She has nearly a decade of experience as a freelancer covering tech (including issues related to security, privacy, and streaming) as well as personal finance and travel.
‘Big Break’ Review: Comedy Quartet Meets Serial-Killer Peril in an Amusing, Tongue-in-Cheek Thriller
NYC-based sketch comedy quartet Simple Town, who have performed live and in online shorts over the last decade, make an amusing leap to the feature-film format in “Big Break.” Ostensibly playing themselves, the group here gathers at a country manse to celebrate one member’s breakaway mainstream success — and for the other three to beg/cajole him into sharing that good fortune. Unbeknownst to the visitors, there’s an unhappy fifth party already in the house… and more than one homicidal maniac even within that small populace.