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Getty ImagesMicrosoft has announced it has cut 4,800 jobs – roughly 2.1% of its workforce – with Xbox to bear a large number of its latest layoffs.Amy Coleman, executive vice president at Microsoft, told employees in a memo that the tech giant needed to focus on areas that can deliver for customers amid a “fast-changing industry”.The sweeping layoffs will see more than 1,600 roles immediately axed at Xbox.Asha Sharma, who recently took over as Xbox’s chief executive, said in a note to staff it was “beginning the most significant restructure in Xbox history”.Four Xbox game development studios – Compulsion Games,…
‘The spectacle Iran wants the world to see’: Lyse Doucet in TehranHuge crowds have lined the streets of Tehran for the funeral procession of Iran’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the first day of the war with the US and Israel.Footage from Iranian state TV showed many tens of thousands of mourners gathered to watch Khamenei’s flag-draped coffin being transported by a lorry along a 10km (6-mile) route that passed through the capital’s landmark Enghelab Square.The procession took place after his body lay in state for two days at Tehran’s Grand Mosalla mosque.Three of Khamenei’s…
PA MediaUK fighter jets intercepted a Russian maritime patrol aircraft after it “repeatedly approached” a carrier strike group in the Norwegian Sea, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.The Russian Bear-F plane passed at low altitude and “unnecessarily close” to the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier and is believed to have dropped 10 sonobuoys into the water on Thursday, the MoD added.The MoD said Moscow’s activity in the Norwegian Sea was “unsafe and unprofessional”.It comes weeks after Royal Marines boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel, while the head of the military has warned the risks…
WASHINGTON (news agencies) — A prescription refill program that quietly launched in Utah earlier this year has kicked off a big medical debate: Is artificial intelligence ready to take over tasks that, until now, could only be performed by doctors?The program allows Utah residents to skip the doctor’s office and get their prescriptions refilled online by an AI chatbot called Doctronic. It’s a seemingly simple step toward making healthcare more convenient for patients and prescribers.But it’s also a precedent-shattering milestone that has set off alarm bells for doctors, lawyers and public health experts. The pilot program has laid bare a…
ReutersThousands of people have been evacuated from towns and villages in the French Pyrenees region due to a wildfireA wildfire has forced the evacuation of thousands of people in southern France as the country grapples with the impacts of an early summer heatwave that scorched much of Europe.More than 10,000 people have been ordered to leave more than a dozen small towns and villages in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, near the border with Spain.The fire, located in Trévillach near Perpignan, has burned at least 4,600 hectares (11,366 acres), local prefect Pierre Regnault de la Mothe said in a…
Watch: Russian attack leaves hole in Kyiv residential buildingThe Ukrainian Air Force says a “serious shortage” of interceptor missiles meant none of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia at Kyiv on Sunday night were shot down.At least 13 people were killed in the second large-scale Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital in a week, officials said. Six more were killed in the wider Kyiv region.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed for allies to take “strong decisions” at this week’s Nato summit to provide Kyiv with air defences. After the strikes, he said the Ukrainian military had been successful in…
LIVEThousands on streets in Iranian capital for former supreme leader’s funeral processionThe late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli air strikes in February – his funeral began on Friday, with events planned across Iran and Iraq over the coming week.
Integrity of game at stake over Fifa Balogun decision – UefaUefa has strongly criticised Fifa’s shock decision not to uphold Folarin Balogun’s immediate suspension at the World Cup, calling it “unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable”.2 hrs agoWorld Cup
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor speaking in 2019: ‘Going to Pizza Express in Woking… a very unusual thing for me to do’Pizza Express held an internal inquiry into whether Andrew Mountbatten Windsor had visited its restaurant in Woking, BBC Newsnight has learned. The former prince claimed in his infamous 2019 Newsnight interview that he had been at the branch in Surrey on the day he was alleged to have slept with Virginia Giuffre, one of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.BBC Newsnight has now discovered the pizza chain investigated the claim and found no evidence that he had, or had not, been…
LIVEPhilippines braces for protests as impeachment trial for vice-president Sara Duterte beginsIf impeached, Duterte cannot run for the top job in 2028, escalating her feud with President Marcos.