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Airbnb billionaire co-founder Joe Gebbia is growing his team at the U.S. National Design Studio, the Trump initiative focused on improving the government’s online presence. On Monday, Gebbia announced that American designer Peter Arnell joined the team to become the first U.S. chief brand architect. Gebbia shared the news of Arnell’s hire during the The Wall Street Journal’s “Future of Everything” conference on Monday. Arnell will be joining a group of people that includes Silicon Valley design and software engineering talent, who are singularly focused on reshaping the usability of the U.S. government’s online platforms. In his four-decade career as…

Threads is rolling out messaging on the web, bringing one-on-one and group chats to desktop, the Meta-owned social network announced on Tuesday. By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bluesky. Connor Hayes, Meta’s head of Threads, said in a post that web messaging was the most requested feature from users after the company first introduced DMs in July 2025. “Our most engaged people spend time on web because they’re at their desks, tapped in, using Threads for longer sessions,” Hayes wrote in his Threads post. “A conversation app…

Paris-based Sequans Communications sold 1,025 bitcoin during the first quarter of 2026, cutting its digital asset reserves nearly in half as the IoT semiconductor maker grappled with declining revenue and mounting losses tied to a treasury strategy that has turned from ambitious to burdensome. The sale reduced Sequans’ bitcoin position from 2,139 BTC at year-end 2025 to 1,114 BTC by April 30, marking the second major disposal in six months for a company that less than a year ago proclaimed plans to accumulate 3,000 bitcoin as a “long-term store of value”. The financial pressure is evident in the numbers. Sequans…

For funeral directors, being visible at that moment has never been more important – yet many are finding it harder than ever to stand out online. To support funeral directors through these changes, LOCALiQ UK is hosting a free 45‑minute online seminar designed specifically for the funeral profession called Increase Your Google Visibility: Five Easy Wins for Funeral Directors.  The session will take place at 12 pm on Thursday, May 7, and you can sign up for it on the LOCALiQ website. Brandon Griffin, Head of B2B Marketing at LOCALiQ UK, and Sarah Harvey, Sales Excellence Manager, will be hosting the seminar…

Access to reliable broadband in the UK has improved significantly over the past decade, but availability remains uneven. While urban centres benefit from widespread full fibre deployments, many suburban and rural areas still face limited access or slower connections. This imbalance raises a simple question: how accessible is broadband across the UK in practical terms? To better understand this, it helps to think in terms of a “Broadband Accessibility Index,” a framework that combines availability, infrastructure, and real-world usability rather than looking at headline coverage figures alone.   What Accessibility Actually Means   Broadband accessibility is often reduced to coverage…

On Monday, OpenAI released a new foundation model called GPT-5.5 Instant, which will replace GPT-5.3 Instant as the default ChatGPT model. The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency of its predecessor. OpenAI released the latest GPT-5.5 model last month with the company claiming improvements in areas like coding and knowledge work. The new model also achieved a score of 81.2 in the AIME 2025 math test, compared to 65.4 for the older model. It also outperformed its predecessor on the MMMU-Pro multimodal reasoning benchmark, with a…

Location : The M25 clockwise between junctions J10 and J11 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 19:00 and 19:15 on 5 May 2026. Cause : Road traffic collision. Delay : There are currently delays of 30 minutes against expected traffic. Source link

Quantum technology is widely expected to transform how large and complex data sets are processed. Although it is currently used mostly in laboratories and research environments, the field is steadily moving toward real-world applications across a range of industries. In a recent study exploring the fundamentals of quantum physics, researchers examined how matter behaves at extremely small scales, including atoms, electrons, and photons. The work, led by Cal Poly Physics Department Lecturer Ian Powell, focused on how varying a magnetic field over time can cause matter to exhibit unusual and previously unseen properties. Powell and student researcher Louis Buchalter, who…

PayPal is looking towards the future, despite its falling stock and looming layoffs. In its first-quarter earnings call, CEO Enrique Lores told investors that PayPal needs to “recommit to the fundamentals,” which included “becoming a technology company again.” There was no need to read between the lines — PayPal was pitching an AI-powered turnaround. Lores explicitly said so, telling analysts on this week’s call that leading companies find ways to differentiate themselves by innovating, and that now is the time for PayPal to take action. This includes modernizing its tech platform, moving faster to become “cloud-native,” and “aggressively adopting AI…

Tuesday 05 May 2026 5:07 pm Jamie and Saffie Osborne paired up for a winner on 2000 Guineas Day AFTER Bow Echo’s scintillating 2,000 Guineas performance at the weekend, it’s fair to say that the Flat season is more than up and running.George Boughey’s colt was perhaps as impressive a Guineas winner since a certain Frankel 15 years ago, and it has set the tempo for more quality action on the level.Ascot stage their second meeting of the campaign this week and Saturday’s Victoria Cup (2.20pm) is always a great betting heat to get stuck into.This year’s renewal looks no…