39 h. ago Max Verstappen set to lose Red Bull ally to Audi in significant F1 raid

Max Verstappen is set to see his number one mechanic leave Red Bull in a huge raid by Audi, with the German manufacturer set to officially enter Formula 1 next year

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4 d. ago The AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood is a symptom of blandified film culture. We need a return to reality | Peter Bradshaw

The industry should refuse to work with these uncanny figures, which plagiarise the performances of generations of actorsWhat is scary about “Tilly Norwood”, the new AI-generated screen star created by the digital studio Xicoia, and launched in a pre-emptively ironic comedy video mocking the soulless unoriginality of AI, is how very convincing it looks in all its girl-next-door cheerfulness. I was expecting something like those Stepford-Wife AI language tutors that crop up on your Instagram feed, promising to practise German or Spanish or French with you. But it has to be said: “Tilly” is like an iPhone 17 making those faces look like a Nokia brick. It is not on screen for long and perhaps vanishes just before you sense something’s off, but as things stand, “Tilly” doesn’t look obviously less real than m any of the performers who appear on screen today.It is not merely that the technology which creates these unreal figures gets relentlessly better and better – the creators of “Tilly...

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5 d. ago ‘There’s no grey area’ – Jurgen Klopp opens up on moment he had to sack his first manager in new Red Bull job

LIVERPOOL legend Jurgen Klopp revealed he didn't at all enjoy dismissing former RB Leipzig manager Marco Rose. Klopp, 58, became Red Bull's Head of Global Soccer in January just eight months after leaving the Kop. The German tactician departed from the Reds after nine glittering years that saw him ending the club's 30-year wait for...

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1 week ago 'Something strange has happened here': Lamine Yamal's father blasts Ousmane Dembele Ballon d'Or triumph

Spanish star was beaten to top award by French forward

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1 week ago The top 30 state schools for Oxbridge success: New data reveals which taxpayer

We've obtained exclusive figures from Oxford and Cambridge showing which state schools and sixth form colleges sent the most pupils to each university last year.

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2 w. ago Pupils shun French, Spanish and German leaving third of sixth forms as language deserts

Official figures reveal 35 per cent of state schools and colleges had no pupils taking exams in any of the three most popular modern foreign languages last year.

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2 w. ago Andoni Iraola is a model modern manager. Could he save Manchester United? | Jonathan Wilson

The smart and flexible coach is enjoying a remarkable start to the season with Bournemouth and big clubs are taking noteYou have to be patient with new players. You have to give a manager time to work with fresh signings, let them learn his methods. Rome wasn’t built in a day – Brian Clough quipped he wasn’t on that particular job, but it took until the third season at Derby and Nottingham Forest to win promotion. It makes sense; you have to wait. Football takes time. Or you could just turn to Andoni Iraola.Iraola lost three of his back four in the summer and his goalkeeper. (No detail perhaps so encapsulates the financial landscape of modern European football better than the highest fees paid in the latest transfer window by a Spanish club and a French one were for Bournemouth centre-backs.) Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sister of boy, 17, who killed himself after being falsely accused of rape breaks down as she recalls the night he took his own life in spot where they played as children

Sixth Form student Jay Cheshire, of Southampton, was left 'distraught' after finding himself at the centre of a police investigation when a girl accused him of rape in spring 2015.

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2 w. ago To understand how AI will reconfigure humanity, try this German fairytale | Clemens J Setz

Artificial intelligence will replace creativity with something closer to magical wishing. The challenge for future generations will be dealing with the feeling of emptiness that leaves us withIn the German fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, an old man one day catches a strange fish: a talking flounder. It turns out that an enchanted prince is trapped inside this fish and that it can therefore grant any wish. The man’s wife, Ilsebill, is delighted and wishes for increasingly excessive things. She turns their miserable hut into a castle, but that is not enough; eventually she wants to become the pope and, finally, God. This enrages the elements; the sea turns dark and she is transformed back into her original impoverished state. The moral of the story: don’t wish for anything you’re not entitled to.Several variations of this classic fairytale motif are known. Sometimes, the wishes are not so much excessive or offensive to the divine order of the world, but simply clumsy or contradi...

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2 w. ago Guardian University Guide 2026: The 20 best universities across the UK for next year's students

The top choice universities for next year’s sixth form leavers have now been named 🎓

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3 w. ago Teacher goes on sick leave with full £48k salary for 16 years without her school noticing

The woman, a German biology and geography teacher, went on leave in August 2009 due to a chronic illness and psychological problems.

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3 w. ago AD FEATURE: Sixth form college in East Didsbury looks ahead to 2025 open day following superb exam results

Students at Parrs Wood Sixth Form College achieved an overall pass rate of more than 96%

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