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World

Why is Israel targeting Lebanon’s bridges?

Yesterday at 23:46 PM, via BBC News

Israeli forces have been instructed to destroy the crossings over the Litani river that were being used by Hezbollah to send reinforcements.

Sport

How ‘all-action’ Anderson inspired Forest win

Today at 02:04 AM, via BBC News

Kelly Cates, Joe Hart and Danny Murphy discuss why Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson is “the favourite” to be in the starting XI for England in this summer’s World Cup.

Sport

Have Newcastle gone backwards?

Today at 02:04 AM, via BBC News

Match of the Day’s Kelly Cates, Joe Hart and Danny Murphy discuss how Newcastle are “struggling with consistency” since competing in the Champions League.

Education

Study links children’s social media use with anxiety and depression in teenage years

Today at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Researchers say lack of sleep could be a factor among young people interacting online for more than three hours a day

Children who are on social media for more than three hours a day are more likely to develop depression and anxiety as teenagers, according to research.

Experts said the impact was likely to be linked to a lack of sleep caused by using social media late at night, and that the...

Education

Student debt eats away home deposit savings to tune of £2,000 a year, says Barclays

Today at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Repayments also affect financial stability of nearly half of graduates, according to report by UK bank

People with student loans who are working towards a home deposit save almost £2,000 less per year than those without the debt, according to a new report by Barclays.

The bank also found that 44% of student loan holders claim that repayments limit their ability to build long-term financial...

Science/Tech

Walmart Announces Digital Price Labels for Every Store in the U.S. By the End of 2026

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Walmart is “rolling out digital price tags to replace the old paper ones,” reports CNBC, planning to implement them in all U.S. stores by the end of the year:Amanda Bailey, a team leader in electronics who works at a Walmart in West Chester, Ohio, estimates that the digital shelf labels — known as DSLs — have cut the time she used to spend on pricing duties by 75%, time that has freed her...

Science/Tech

I discovered three new geckos in Cambodia’s limestone caves – and that’s not all we found

Today at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

The whole ecosystem inside a cave feeds off guano, dead bats, or any dead animals on the ground. It’s not for the faint-hearted

It can be daunting entering a cave. It is an underground world that possibly hasn’t been explored before. The first smell that hits you is guano (or bat poo). Some of these caves host millions of bats – you can hear them chirping above, hanging in the darkness, and...

Science/Tech

Trapped! Inside a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack

Today at 00:55 AM, via Slashdot

A man crossing the street one San Francisco night spotted a self-driving car — and decided to confront its passenger, 37-year-old tech worker Doug Fulop. The New York Times reports the man yelled that “he wanted to kill Fulop and the other two passengers for giving money to a robot.”A taxi driver would have simply driven away. But Fulop’s vehicle had no driver — it was a self-driving Waymo…...

Science/Tech

Elon Musk Announces $20B ‘Terafab’ Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies

Yesterday at 23:55 PM, via Slashdot

“Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas” reports a local news station:Musk announced on Saturday night during a livestream on his social media platform X that the plant, called “Terafab,” will be built near Tesla’s campus and gigafactory in eastern Travis County. The long-anticipated project is a joint venture between Musk-owned properties...

Motoring

6 new bakkies coming to South Africa

Yesterday at 07:09 AM, via TopAuto

South Africans can look forward to six new bakkies this year, ranging from a luxurious double cab to two diesel plug-in hybrids.

Health

David Botstein, Gene-Mapping Pioneer, Dies at 83

Friday at 23:25 PM, via New York Times

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.