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Apple unveils folding iPhone as UK travel chaos and fuel prices bite
Cupertino’s autumn showcase tips the first folding iPhone under new chief John Ternus, while UK flight cancellations top 1,300 and pump prices surge; also: scrutiny of the fatal Miami cargo crash, a Queensland farmer convicted of triple murder, Borthwick’s England extension and Tom Jones’s Voice UK row.
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Xbox is bringing back startup animations from its console history
Microsoft is rolling out a batch of new Xbox console features to Insider testers, including custom boot animations drawn from the console’s history, a local search tool, and improved Remote Play and voice chat quality. The update reflects Microsoft’s ongoing effort to refine the Xbox software experience with quality-of-life and nostalgia-driven personalisation features ahead of…
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All the news from Apple’s ‘Surprise and shine’ event
Apple held its “Surprise and shine” launch event on 9 September, expected to introduce the first phones in its iPhone 18 range, including a rumoured foldable device dubbed the “iPhone Duo”. The event carried added significance as the first major product launch overseen by John Ternus, who became Apple’s chief executive on 1 September after…
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Apple unveils its first foldable iPhone at Ternus keynote
Apple concluded a keynote unveiling its first foldable iPhone, marking the debut major product launch overseen by newly appointed CEO John Ternus. The event carried particular significance as Ternus’s introduction to leading Apple’s flagship announcements, having billed it in advance as “a huge launch” that would be “phenomenal,” with the folding handset positioned as the…
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Upscale Officially Launches As One-Stop Shop For Microdramas
Upscale Media Films, which is producing a slate of vertical shows with Hartbeat, has formally launched as a full-service production company for the microdrama market. Founder and CEO Malik Davis is building the business around owning a portfolio of published book properties paired with an in-house crew that develops, casts, shoots and edits content, aiming…
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Anthropic researcher quits as colleagues warn of AI existential risk
Three researchers at AI company Anthropic have publicly warned that artificial intelligence could cause human extinction within the next decade, with one of them, Jacob Coxon, resigning in protest at how Anthropic and OpenAI are handling the risk. Coxon accused both firms of racing towards self-improving superintelligence while gambling with humanity’s future, and claimed that…
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Mother, 31, who falsely accused 10 men she met on dating apps of raping her has ‘lenient’ sentence increased
A woman who falsely accused ten men of raping her has had her prison sentence increased from four-and-a-half to seven years after the Court of Appeal ruled the original term “unduly lenient.” Stacey Sharples, 31, from Farnworth in Bolton, met the men in Greater Manchester via Facebook and dating apps Plenty of Fish and Badoo…
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Crypto gang who held Bitcoin millionaires captive and tortured them are jailed for more than 30 years
Five members of a London gang have been jailed for a combined total of more than 30 years after kidnapping and torturing two French cryptocurrency millionaires who were visiting the capital. The victims, both in their 20s with a combined fortune of £50 million, were ambushed by masked, armed men after travelling to buy cannabis…
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Woman left paralysed after daughter granted bail for stabbing
A Wisconsin mother, Kimberly King, 39, says she was stabbed roughly ten times by her 21-year-old daughter, Shyanniah Ma’ree Johnson, in a Chick-fil-A car park in Acworth, Georgia, following an argument during a family road trip from Florida to Milwaukee. King says the attack, which she claims has left her hands paralysed, has ended her…
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Ginevra Elkann’s ‘The Roses of Marrakesh,’ Starring Fanny Ardant, Boarded by True Colours (EXCLUSIVE)
Rome-based sales company True Colours has boarded Italian director Ginevra Elkann’s new feature “The Roses of Marrakesh” (“Le Rose di Marrakech”), starring Fanny Ardant, and will launch international sales on the title in Toronto. The deal is notable both for Elkann’s growing profile as a filmmaker — she is a granddaughter of former Fiat chief…