Free summer holiday sport sessions offered in city
Free sport sessions are set to be offered in Sheffield to “get families active” during the school summer holidays. More than a dozen parks and green spaces in the city will host the two-hour sessions, including Firth Park, Greenhill Park and Gleadless Common. The afternoon and evening slots will offer football, rounders and other multi-sport […]
EasyJet rejects fourth takeover offer
EasyJet has rejected a fourth takeover offer worth £4.93bn from Castlelake. The low-cost Luton-based airline said the US investment firm’s bid was worth £6.50 a share, compared with the previous offers of £5.60, £6 and £6.25 a share. A spokesperson said it was giving Castlelake until 17:00 BST on 5 July to make a firm […]
Food kit warehouse closure puts 290 jobs at risk
A company that sells meal kits is to close its Lincolnshire warehouse, putting 290 jobs at risk. Gousto said it would shut its Clay Lake unit, near Spalding, and centralise the production of its food boxes at one site in Cheshire to reduce costs. The firm said it had heavily invested in its Warrington facility, […]
IBM hails new ‘block of flats’ design breakthrough for ultra tiny chips
Image source, IBMImage caption, IBM’s new sub-1 nm chip crams almost 100 billion transistors onto a surface the size of a fingernail IBM has unveiled a new chip design which it says could enable manufacturers to cram 100 billion transistors on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail. The current industry-standard size for chips, […]
Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime
Although a university degree is widely understood to lead to better earnings over a lifetime, new research suggests it can vary significantly depending on which course you do. You can use our look-up tool below to check your chosen subject and find out how much more – or less – graduates can earn compared with […]
GTA 6 – all you need to know about Rockstar’s blockbuster game
To put it simply, the GTA franchise is one of the biggest and most profitable entertainment properties in history. GTA 5 has sold nearly 230 million copies, making it one of the best-selling games of all time – which has generated billions of dollars in revenue for Rockstar. The game’s sandbox gameplay, where players can […]
The heatwave workers ‘like cats on a hot tin roof’
The heatwave workers ‘like cats on a hot tin roof’ Image caption, Temperatures passed 33C in parts of the West on Wednesday, making working outside much harder than usual By West of England business and environment correspondent If you think it is hot where you work, try fitting aluminium solar panels to a steel roof. […]
Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused Chinese e-commerce and technology firm Alibaba of “brazenly” and “illicitly” extracting its Claude AI model’s capabilities. In a letter sent to two members of the US Congress, the San Francisco-based company said operators linked to Alibaba carried out almost 29 million exchanges with Claude using thousands of […]
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Episode details World Service,24 Jun 2026,21 mins Founders: Duolingo’s billionaire boss on rejecting Bill Gates Business Daily Available for over a year We hear how a childhood in Guatemala, a fascination with computers and a belief that education should be accessible to everyone helped inspire the world’s most popular learning apps. Luis von Ahn tells […]
Do you know your ‘sweat score’? The rise of hydration tech
Booing fans and disgruntled pundits. One of the biggest controversies of the 2026 World Cup so far has been the hydration breaks, which – while not entirely new – are for the first time occurring twice during every match in the tournament. The breaks aren’t really about hydration, some spectators say. They’re just an opportunity […]