West Ham United banned season-ticket holder Joshua Wood for five matches after he helped hold an anti-board banner.The banner read “Time 2 Sell – Name Your Price” and appeared during the Sunderland match.The club said the punishment related to banner size, not its message.Regulations ban banners larger than 2m by 1m without prior approval.Wood said he did not bring the banner into the stadium and plans to appeal.West Ham said the banner posed safety risks and denied suppressing fan protest.
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A major Swedish trial found that using AI in breast cancer screening reduced later cancer diagnoses by 12%.The study followed 100,000 women and compared AI-supported mammography with standard double readings.Researchers published the results in The Lancet.AI helped prioritise high-risk scans and flagged suspicious findings for radiologists.Early detection rose to 81% in the AI group, compared with 74% under standard screening.The trial also recorded fewer aggressive cancer subtypes with AI support.Scientists stressed AI should support, not replace, trained radiologists.
Google DeepMind launched AlphaGenome, an AI tool designed to identify genetic mutations that drive disease.The system predicts how mutations disrupt gene regulation, affecting when and where genes activate.AlphaGenome can analyse up to one million DNA letters at once using human and mouse genetic data.Researchers say it could clarify causes of cancer, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and mental health conditions.The tool may also support gene therapy design by enabling precise control of gene activity.Independent scientists called AlphaGenome a major step toward understanding the non-coding genome.
Amazon revealed plans for fresh global job cuts after an internal email was sent in error to staff.Workers at Amazon Web Services received a cancelled meeting invite containing a draft message about layoffs.The email wrongly said affected employees in the US, Canada, and Costa Rica had already been informed.It was signed by senior vice-president Colleen Aubrey and described the cuts as “Project Dawn”.Amazon cut 14,000 corporate roles in October and continues to reduce pandemic-era hiring.Chief executive Andy Jassy has warned some roles may be replaced by AI.The news followed fresh job cut plans at United Parcel Service, a key Amazon…
Scientists have launched DinoTracker, an AI app that identifies dinosaurs from ancient footprints.The system compares footprint shapes and matches expert classifications about 90% of the time.Researchers avoided pre-labelled data to reduce long-standing classification errors.The AI learned from 2,000 unlabelled footprint silhouettes and identified eight key shape features.These include toe spread, heel position, and ground contact patterns.Users can upload footprint images and explore similar tracks through the free app.The study appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The team included scientists from University of Edinburgh and Helmholtz-Zentrum.The AI supports earlier findings of birdlike dinosaur tracks from the Triassic and Jurassic…
The SEC agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against the Winklevoss twins’ crypto exchange after investors recovered all lending program assets.Regulators cited the full repayment of Gemini Earn customers through the Genesis Global Capital bankruptcy in mid-2024.The decision reflects a more crypto-friendly approach under President Donald Trump.The SEC stressed the dismissal does not affect other enforcement cases.Genesis and Gemini previously faced charges over unregistered securities sales in their lending program.Gemini later debuted on Nasdaq and is now valued at $1.14bn.
Coca-Cola has launched legal action against Vue after the cinema chain replaced it with PepsiCo across Europe. The lawsuit seeks to recover alleged unpaid debts following the end of a near 25-year supply relationship. Vue, which operates more than 90 cinemas in the UK and Ireland, switched to PepsiCo last year. PepsiCo’s deal runs until at least 2030 and covers Vue’s 222 sites across eight countries. Vue’s founder Tim Richards criticised the legal move, saying the dispute could have been resolved informally. Vue said the claim involved under £100,000 and confirmed all disputed amounts are now settled.
Google’s AI Overviews cite YouTube more often than any medical website when answering health-related search queries, according to a new German study that raises concerns about the reliability of information seen by billions of users. Researchers analysed more than 50,000 health searches in Germany and found that AI Overviews appeared in over 80% of results. The most frequently cited source was YouTube, accounting for 4.43% of all citations—more than hospitals, government health portals or academic institutions. YouTube is owned by Google. While Google says its AI summaries draw on reputable sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Japan is developing the L0 Series, a next-generation magnetic levitation (maglev) train that could become the fastest in the world, reaching speeds of up to 603.5 km/h. Built by JR Central, it would far outpace China’s Shanghai Maglev (460 km/h) and Europe’s fastest conventional trains such as France’s TGV and Italy’s Italo (around 300–350 km/h). The L0 Series is being designed for the Chuo Shinkansen line, which is expected to cut travel time between Tokyo and Nagoya to about 40 minutes, down from up to two and a half hours today. Once extended to Osaka, the system would link Japan’s…
A study published in Social Science and Medicine warns that “manosphere” influencers are convincing healthy young men they have low testosterone and need medical testing or treatment. Researchers analysed popular posts on TikTok and Instagram, finding that normal experiences such as tiredness, stress or low mood were often portrayed as medical problems. According to the lead author from the University of Copenhagen, this promotes a “medicalisation of masculinity” and fuels sales of tests, supplements and hormones with little clinical justification. Medical experts say routine testosterone screening is not recommended for young men without clear symptoms and that unnecessary treatment can…
