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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…

Emergency services were called to Reid Avenue in Linwood at around 9.30am on May 5 following reports of an item at a property. Officers quickly cordoned off the area, with homes on both Reid Avenue and nearby Bridge of Weir Road evacuated as a precaution. A significant police presence built up throughout the morning, with CID officers, specialist search teams and police dogs all drafted in to assist. Police and bomb disposal units were deployed to a Renfrewshire street (Image: Newsquest) Two explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) vans were also seen at the scene. Police and bomb disposal units were deployed…

The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has said two ambulances and an air ambulance were sent to the incident on Stockman’s Lane.A spokesperson said: “The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service received a 999 call at 13:19 on Tuesday, 5 th May, following reports of an RTC in the Stockmans Lane area, Belfast.”NIAS dispatched 2 Emergency Ambulances and HEMS were also dispatched to the scene by road.”Following assessment and initial treatment at the scene, 1 person was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast by Ambulance.” Source link

Etsy announced Tuesday the launch of its native app within ChatGPT, opening up a new way for shoppers to explore its catalog of over 100 million listings. The new experience is designed to move beyond the limitations of traditional keyword queries. Instead of typing something like “wooden coffee table,” then scrolling and adjusting filters, users can now express what they’re looking for in natural language. For instance, “Help me find a Mother’s Day gift under $100 for my mom who loves gardening.” Now live in beta, the feature allows users to tag @Etsy directly within a prompt. From there, the…