A lot of children’s programming made for YouTube “isn’t entertainment, it’s sedation”, warns the UK children’s laureate. Frank Cottrell-Boyce said that “frictionless” programming in which children are “bombarded with information” such as CoCoMelon, a YouTube Kids channel with 180 million subscribers, fails to offer the “stimulation and nourishment” that previous generations enjoyed. Speaking to the […]
Main Events Show key events only Please turn on javascript to use this feature RECEPTION Good morning and welcome to our live News Blog. I Martin Farrer with the best stories of the night and then Nick viser pick up the slack. Australia’s major banks have given $43bn to the Fossil Fuel Company over the […]
The U.S. Catholic bishops elected Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City as their new president on Tuesday leading the way for Donald Trump’s presidency. The vote acts as a barometer for the bishops’ priorities. In electing Coakley, they doubled down on their conservatism, even as they pushed for more humane immigration policies from the Trump […]
Geomagnetic storms are disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field that last for minutes or hours and are caused by coronal mass ejections (CMEES) and coronal fires. It has been reported that there are three CMEs heading towards earth from the Sun. The National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which measures the strength of these storms, says […]
Webb, speaking to the officials of the match mic’d indicated, that while he was accepted there was a difference of opinion, there were reasons for the purpose to be remedied. “Interference with an opponent is where the Boffide Player does not play the ball and the officials must make a judgment as to whether a […]
Oscar-winning actors Mateo McCsonaughey and Michael Caine have both signed a deal with AI Audio Company. The New York-based company can now create versions of AI that make voices as part of a bid to solve a “key ethical challenge” in the artificial intelligence industry in Hollywood. McConaughey, who also invested in the company and […]
Removing carbon from space should avoid the tipping point of disaster, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned, even in the best-case scenario of a full 1.7C. Johan Rockström of the Potsdam Institute for climate impact research, who is one of the chief scientific advisors of the Carbon Diologo must remove carbon dioxide at […]
Delta air lines settled down One case alleged that a flight attendant was fired in retaliation for supporting unionization and sustained “sexual harassment” during training. The flight attendant, Aryasp Nejat, said he was suspended without pay, then fired, for making two appeals on social media, but he did not follow up. The lawsuit, filed in […]
The secretary of justice revealed that 91 prisoners have been released by mistake in England and Wales since April, who in many four remain many. David Lammy gave details of the Commons statement on three wrongfully released prisoners who were tried by the police. He also said that the prison service is also investigating the […]
Downing Street has launched an extraordinary operation to protect Keir Starmer among the Prime Minister’s closest allies as he is vulnerable to a budget leadership challenge. The most senior politician in Starmer warned that any attempt to eliminate the Prime Minister in the Prime Minister’s Tinking Poll Ratings would be a “dangerous” relationship and the […]
