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Sport

Gyokeres part of Alvarez offer – Wednesday’s gossip

Yesterday at 23:20 PM, via BBC News

Viktor Gyokeres may be used as a makeweight to bring Julian Alvarez to Arsenal, Liverpool have made contract with Paris St-Germain over a transfer for Bradley Barcola, while Tottenham captain Cristian Romero is set to leave the club.

Education

Pilot scheme in England to convert empty classrooms into community hubs

Yesterday at 21:00 PM, via The Guardian

Policy to create youth clubs and health centres aims to tackle surplus of school spaces created by falling pupil numbers

Classrooms left empty by falling numbers of pupils could soon be converted into youth clubs or health centres, as part of a pilot scheme to be announced this week.

In the pilot a group of local authorities in England will be given £3.1m by the Department for Education to...

Education

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Yesterday at 18:45 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned.

Universities’ finances are so precarious that redundancies are also occurring in business...

Education

Nigeria: Kwara Trains 700 Students, 130 Teachers in Ai, Robotics

Yesterday at 16:11 PM, via AllAfrica

[Vanguard] No fewer than 700 students and 130 teachers in Kwara State have received hands-on training in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other digital skills at the 2026 edition of STEM Africa Fest, held at the Ilorin Innovation Hub.

Science/Tech

Google Images Gets a Pinterest-Like Redesign Focused On Discovery

Today at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Google Images is getting a Pinterest-like redesign that turns image search into a personalized discovery feed, with “For You” galleries, real-time updates, and collections for saving visual ideas. “Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it celebrates 25 years since the debut of Google Images,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: After navigating to the...

Science/Tech

Lawsuit Claims Meta’s Layoff Decisions Were Made By AI, Not Humans

Yesterday at 23:00 PM, via Slashdot

A lawsuit from 26 Meta employees alleges the company used AI-driven scoring and monitoring systems to select workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or those who had taken protected medical, family, pregnancy, or parental leave. “Meta did not assemble the termination list through the considered judgment of managers who knew the work. Instead, Meta used a...

Science/Tech

If your brand isn’t the AI answer, you don’t exist 

Yesterday at 22:15 PM, via Tech Financials

Why is GEO the next battle for brands and what the natural diamond industry teaches us about it? By Eglantine Tranie Wignolle, Partner, Artefact US The 11 PM question Picture someone at home, alone, late at night, thinking about proposing. They don’t call a friend. They don’t Google. They open ChatGPT and type: “should I […]

Health

Covid inquiry PPE report – key findings

Yesterday at 14:45 PM, via BBC News

What went wrong with the government’s planning and buying of vital items like gloves and gowns that cost taxpayers billions of pounds.