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Tesla starts offering Cybercab robotaxi rides
Tesla has begun offering rides in its purpose-built Cybercab robotaxi, nearly two years after the driverless vehicle was first unveiled. Customers can now hail rides via Tesla’s Robotaxi app, though the Cybercab is currently only available as an option in Austin, Texas, with passengers unable to specifically request one and allocation depending on group size…
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‘Coming Of Age’: First Look At Josh Appignanesi’s Upcoming Comedy About “The Power Of Aging”
Writer-director Josh Appignanesi has revealed a first look at his seventh feature, Coming of Age, a comedy co-written with regular collaborator Devorah Baum. Set across 30 years of car journeys through a changing London, the film follows a couple as they navigate love, parenthood, midlife crises and ageing parents, ultimately suggesting that growing older can…
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Aussie family’s heartbreaking tribute to boy, 13, who died following e-scooter crash
A 13-year-old boy in Queensland, Australia, has died after crashing a modified e-scooter borrowed from an older friend, days before tough new laws restricting youth e-scooter use took effect. Blayde Pettitt was riding near a McDonald’s in Childers, close to Bundaberg, on 26 August when the scooter proved too powerful for him, causing a single-vehicle…
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UK has not done enough to prepare for shocks to food supplies, says watchdog
The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that the UK government has not done enough to prepare the country’s food supply chain for growing risks such as the climate crisis, disease outbreaks and cyber-attacks. The public spending watchdog is calling on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to work more closely with…
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Save the Children aid for 1.5 million in need wiped out by Iran war oil shock
Save the Children has warned that the oil price surge triggered by the US war on Iran is undermining its ability to deliver aid, saying it is now forced to “spend more to reach fewer children”. The charity says higher transport, fuel, food and medical supply costs linked to the Middle East conflict have already…
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Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable
The Guardian reviews Faces of Death, a modern reimagining of the notorious 1978 “video nasty” of the same name, directed by Daniel Goldhaber (How to Blow Up a Pipeline). Rather than a straight remake, the film reworks original footage into a contemporary horror narrative centred on the ethics of online content moderation, initially recalling Prano…
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Vista, Saarikoski Songs, Three Preludes album review – Saariaho’s iridescent visions evocatively rendered
A new album brings together three previously unrecorded works by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, performed by soprano Anu Komsi, organist Marzi Nyman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under fellow Finn Sakari Oramo. Spanning four decades of her career, the pieces showcase Saariaho’s distinctive musical voice and offer listeners a…
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
A Guardian investigation has found that some of England’s largest businesses use billions of litres of water a day from the public supply with little transparency or obligation to cut consumption, even as millions of households face hosepipe bans and three-quarters of the country experiences drought. Companies use 2.6bn litres daily from the public network,…
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Forest school vandalism ‘heartbreaking’ – owner
Helen Wilson, who runs Little Puddle People forest school on a nature reserve in Fulwood, Sheffield, has described as “heartbreaking” the latest act of vandalism at the site, where yoga mats, fancy dress items and hammocks used by children were ripped up and scattered through the woodland. The independent school provides nature-based learning, including crafts,…
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Oasis Documentary Directors on Filming the Brothers’ First Reunion in 15 Years and Why There Wasn’t Much Emotion in the Room: ‘It’s the Gallaghers, It’s Not ‘Dawson’s Creek”
The directors of the upcoming Disney+ documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” have described filming Liam and Noel Gallagher’s first reunion in 15 years, revealing there was little visible emotion despite the historic nature of the moment. Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, speaking to Variety ahead of the film’s Venice premiere, said they deliberately…