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New Skoda Enyaq SUV Starts at £39,000

New Skoda Enyaq SUV Starts at £39,000

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The Skoda Enyaq electric SUV has undergone a significant transformation for the 2025 model year, showcasing a bold new design and improved specifications across its entire range. Available in both traditional SUV and sleek Coupé body styles, the updated Enyaq now incorporates Skoda’s innovative Modern Solid design language, seamlessly blending functionality with a streamlined, aerodynamic aesthetic. The exterior has been refreshed with striking features such as the illuminated Tech-Deck Face, advanced Matrix LED headlights, and larger alloy wheels, ensuring that the Enyaq commands attention on the road. Inside the cabin, the Enyaq offers a host of upgrades, including a redesigned steering wheel, a generous 13-inch infotainment screen, and a 5-inch Digital Cockpit as standard across all trims. Premium trims take the experience to the next level, adding sought-after features like a state-of-the-art head-up display with augmented reality technology, enhancing driver awareness and convenience. The interior also features premium materials, improved ergonomics, and ample space for passengers and cargo alike, making the Enyaq a versatile choice for families and adventure-seekers. Pricing and Availability The Skoda Enyaq …

Starts With A Bang podcast #113 – Weird stars

Starts With A Bang podcast #113 – Weird stars

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Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. When it comes to stars, most of them, for most of their lives, behave in a very similar fashion to the Sun. In their cores, they undergo nuclear fusion, which provides energy and creates radiation, and that outward radiation pressure holds the star up, internally, against gravitational collapse. For most stars, this balance between the pressure from outward radiation and the inward force from gravitation is nearly perfect all throughout the star, leading to an equilibrium state. But some stars aren’t in this kind of equilibrium at all. Instead, some internal process actually drives the star in a fashion that causes it to pulsate: overshooting equilibrium in both directions, as it alternatingly expands and cools, and then contracts and heat up in a cyclical fashion. These species of intrinsic variable stars, including Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars, are not only of profound importance when …

News diary 9 – 15 December: Harry vs Sun pre-trial hearing, Sycamore Gap tree trial starts

News diary 9 – 15 December: Harry vs Sun pre-trial hearing, Sycamore Gap tree trial starts

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The stump of the famous Sycamore Gap tree. Picture: SunCity/Shutterstock A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News. Leading the week  Monday (December 9): Trial begins for pair charged over Sycamore Gap tree felling; Rachel Reeves attends Eurogroup meeting; Golden Globe nominations announced.  Tuesday (December 10): Northern Ireland Assembly holds consent vote on Northern Ireland Protocol; Benjamin Netanyahu testimony due to begin in criminal prosecution; Pre-trial hearing in Prince Harry case against The Sun.  Wednesday (December 11): PMQs; World Cup hosts confirmed at FIFA Congress.  Thursday (December 12): Time Magazine person of the year; Axel Rudakubana in court over Southport stabbings; Chief Medical Examiner testifies at Thirlwall inquiry.  Thanks for subscribing. Close Friday (December 13): UK GDP monthly estimate; Deadline for report from US investigative task force on Trump assassination attempt; Defence arguments due to conclude in Gisele Pelicot mass rape trial.  Saturday (December 14): Further protests expected as Georgian lawmakers elect new president.  Sunday (December 15): UK accession to CPTPP takes effect; Pope …

“If you want to move better and have more lower body freedom you need to start training your flexibility and it all starts in the hips”: A movement expert suggests five moves for hip mobility

“If you want to move better and have more lower body freedom you need to start training your flexibility and it all starts in the hips”: A movement expert suggests five moves for hip mobility

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Sitting for long periods, overtraining, running and cycling—especially without warming up properly—can all contribute to tight hips. This tightness is often caused by tension around the hip flexor muscles, which, if unaddressed, can lead to a reduced range of motion, limited mobility and an increased risk of injury. The good news? You can improve hip flexibility without spending hours stretching. According to Tom Merrick, also known as the Bodyweight Warrior, you only need these five drills to make a difference. Merrick, a calisthenics expert and fitness coach known for his strength and flexibility workouts, says: “These five stretches will have all essential ranges of the hip covered and can be applied from beginner to advanced.” How to do Tom Merrick’s stretch workout For detailed instructions on each exercise, watch Merrick’s longer YouTube video. In it, Merrick also recommends testing your flexibility by holding a lower-body position, like a deep squat, before starting the routine, then performing the position again afterward to highlight the difference the stretches can make. “If you want to move better and …

Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks Instead

Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks Instead

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Slacking on the job! Attention Span It turns out that not even AI models are immune to a little procrastination. While its developers were trying to record a coding demonstration, the latest version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet — Anthropic’s current flagship AI — got off track and produced some “amusing” moments, the company said in an announcement. It’s perilous to anthropomorphize machine learning models, but if this were a human employee, we’d diagnose them with a terminal case of being bored on the job. As seen in a video, Claude decides to blow off writing code, opens Google, and inexplicably browses through beautiful photos of Yellowstone National Park. In another demo attempt, Claude accidentally stopped a lengthy screen-recording in progress, Anthropic said, causing all the footage to be lost. We’re sure that wasn’t intentional on the AI’s part. Even while recording these demos, we encountered some amusing moments. In one, Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording, causing all footage to be lost. Later, Claude took a break from our coding demo and began to …

Tesla Model Y refresh starts production Oct 22, says Chinese social media

Tesla Model Y refresh starts production Oct 22, says Chinese social media

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Tesla is preparing to enter limited trial production of the new Model Y “Juniper” refresh in its Shanghai factory on October 22nd, according to a Chinese car blogger. Tesla released its “Highland” Model 3 refresh last August, and it was a much more significant overhaul than we were expecting. The headline features were a new front-end, more efficiency, and a quieter cabin. But there were a lot of other interior improvements as well (and one big de-provement, the deletion of steering column stalks). Since then, there has been speculation that a Model Y refresh is coming soon. While the Model Y is not currently as old as the Model 3 was when it received its refresh, it stands to reason that there would be a number of people who are now waiting for a potential Model Y refresh before buying the car. So Tesla likely feels more of a sense of urgency to update the Model Y, which is their (and the world’s) best-selling vehicle after all. The more people think a refresh is coming …

Robot Vacuum Starts Hurling Racial Slurs at Its Owner After Being Hacked

Robot Vacuum Starts Hurling Racial Slurs at Its Owner After Being Hacked

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“I just thought of it catching my kids or even me, you know, not dressed.” Foul Language Hackers were able to gain control of camera-equipped robot vacuums around the United States — and at least one of them forced the cleaning robots to yell racist obscenities. As ABC Australia reports, owners of Ecovacs’ Deebot X2 robot vacuums from Los Angeles to El Paso, Texas told the broadcaster that their wares had exhibited strange behaviors. But one story stuck out as particularly egregious. Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swenson told the ABC that he initially thought his Chinese-made robot vacuum was malfunctioning when he began to hear weird sounds coming from it. When he went to check out the problem on the robot’s app, however, he found someone else was accessing its camera and remote control settings. Attempting to do due diligence, Swenson reset the vacuum’s password — only for it to begin zooming around and yelling the N-word repeatedly, all within earshot of one of his children. After that incident, Swenson turned the robot vacuum off and never …

Tesla starts taking configurations of k non-Foundation Cybertrucks

Tesla starts taking configurations of $79k non-Foundation Cybertrucks

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Source: Tesla Over ten months after deliveries started, Tesla is now taking configurations for the non-Foundation series Cybertruck. The first Cybertruck deliveries occurred on November 30th last year, so we’re just over ten months past that date. As it often does, Tesla started fulfilling deliveries from the top down – it shipped higher-optioned, limited-edition models first, expecting to ship cheaper versions later. It did this previously with the Roadster, Model S and Model X, for example. With the Cybertruck, this took the form of the fully-loaded “Foundation Series,” which is a package that includes several options and costs an additional $20k. But unlike Tesla’s previous “Founders” or “Signature” series vehicles which had hundreds or a thousand vehicles in them, the Foundation series lasted much longer, with tens of thousands of trucks delivered with the optional Foundation package. Originally, Tesla said that it would start delivering non-Foundation series vehicles months ago, but in July it pushed that timeline back to “late 2024”. Well, now that time is here, as Tesla has started sending emails to reservation holders …

User Confused When AI Unexpectedly Starts Sobbing Out Loud

User Confused When AI Unexpectedly Starts Sobbing Out Loud

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In a bizarre video, an AI music generator appears to be sobbing like a human, surprising the Reddit user who posted it. Posted to r/SunoAI, a subreddit dedicated to the music-generating software of the same name, u/BloodMossHunter posted a 24-second clip showing the AI sounding like it’s crying, which doesn’t seem to have been part of the user’s prompt. As other users noted, emotional-sounding outbursts and other creepy bits of audio appearing randomly at the ends of these AI-generated songs seem — terrifyingly, perhaps, depending on your perspective — to be a fairly common occurrence with the software. In one comment, for instance, a user shared a Suno-generated song that they’d published on Spotify that at the end includes horrific echoey screams of “no!”. In another, u/SkyDemonAirPirates shared a song titled “Ignorance Was Bliss” that they published to Suno’s website in which a glitchy female voice asks the listener if they’re “still alive” before laughing maniacally. “The ghost in the machine, I guess,” another user responded. “Yikes.” In another chilling anecdote, u/SkyDemonAirPirates said that they’d …