Stephanie Davidovitz from Southern Water gave an update on the water outage About 58,000 properties across Hampshire have been affected by an outage caused by a fault at a water supply works. The problem, which started on Wednesday morning, has hit large parts of Southampton, Chandler’s Ford, Romsey, Totton, Waterside and the New Forest. Nick…
OpenAI ChatGPT just rolled out speech access to ChatGPT by phone and text access through the WhatsApp messaging system. The new services allow users to talk to and message ChatGPT to get answers. The phone access method enables users with an unstable or no data connection to use ChatGPT from a telephone while on the…
The Northern giant hornet, more commonly known as the “murder hornet,” has been eradicated in the U.S., agriculture officials said Wednesday. The ominously nicknamed invasive species was confirmed to be in the U.S. in 2019 after officials in Washington state received and verified two reports of the hornet. Efforts quickly began to track and get…
Getty Images Hundreds of driving examiners will be recruited to cut “sky-high” wait times for tests, the government has announced. Lilian Greenwood, minister for the future of roads, said “no one should have to wait six months when they’re ready to pass” their driving test and acknowledged there was a “huge” backlog. The recruitment drive…
The US central bank has announced an interest rate cut, just hours before the Bank of England is tipped to refrain from following suit. The Federal Reserve cut its main funding rate by a quarter point to a new target range of 4.25%-4.5%, as markets had expected, but signalled that future reductions would happen more…
Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a conservative revolt over a last-minute measure to keep the government funded into the spring and avoid a shutdown, with some Republicans strongly objecting to billions of dollars in spending that has been added to the bill. Congressional leaders unveiled the stopgap funding measure late Tuesday after days of…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canada and the United States should work together to counter China, rather than engage in a damaging trade war — and has a message for Mexico to join them. Speaking to CNN Monday night, Ford said cutting off energy exports to the U.S. remained “a tool that we have in…
Honda put nostalgia to the fore on December 18th when it announced that the Prelude, a nameplate last produced some 25 years ago, now being relaunched as a hybrid-electric, would come with the option of a system that simulates gear changes and combustion-engine noises. The message, however, was quickly drowned out by news with far…
Getty Images The US central bank has cut interest rates for a third time, despite concerns that the move will deliver a boost to the economy that risks re-igniting price inflation. The decision was expected, setting the Federal Reserve’s key lending rate in a target range of 4.25% to 4.5%. That is down a full…
The blunt truth is it has long been highly unlikely that this government or its Conservative predecessor would pay compensation to women hit by changes to the state pension age. The institutional failure was less egregious than the Post Office or infected blood scandals, but the potential bill for the government was colossal. And ministers…
