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The proposals for a McDonald’s drive-through restaurant in Old Shoreham Road, Hove, were submitted to the council in January last year. The plans include construction of a car park, as well as the demolition of existing buildings. Many residents who live behind and near the proposed site have shared their anger towards the plans. Today, April 21, they gathered at the site to protest against the application ahead of its discussion at a planning committee meeting, which residents say is scheduled to take place next month. Emma Russell, 54, said it is the “wrong place” for a McDonald’s and “the…

Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people decide what to build. It has launched a platform that produces consulting-style product strategies. The startup, based in Surat, India, on Tuesday launched its platform, Rocket 1.0, which connects research, product building, and competitive intelligence in a single workflow. The platform generates detailed product strategy documents — including pricing, unit economics, and go-to-market recommendations. As AI-powered coding tools proliferate — from platforms like Cursor, Replit, and Lovable to features such as Claude Code and Codex — writing code has become…

AI-powered design platform Picsart is launching a creator monetization program, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The program is open to all creators, with no invite lists and no minimum audience size required. The program invites creators to create original content with Picsart tools for a specific campaign, share it on their social channels, and earn revenue based on how their audience engages. Picsart says the program is designed to reward creative output and performance, rather than focusing on scale or follower count. By launching a creator monetization program, Picsart is evolving from a creative tool into a platform where creators…

Gillingham’s winger Garath McCleary turns 39 in May but could still play a part for the club next season.McCleary has shown glimpses of his quality for the Gills this season, and his goal on Monday against Accrington was a touch of class, firing home from the edge of the box.Gillingham winger Garath McCleary Photo: Stuart WatsonThe Gills signed the player last summer on a one-year contract – with the option of extending it for another 12 months – and manager Gareth Ainsworth must decide whether to take that option up.McCleary has managed 22 games for the Gills this season – 10…

To improve data center efficiency, multiple storage devices are often pooled together over a network so many applications can share them. But even with pooling, significant device capacity remains underutilized due to performance variability across the devices.MIT researchers have now developed a system that boosts the performance of storage devices by handling three major sources of variability simultaneously. Their approach delivers significant speed improvements over traditional methods that tackle only one source of variability at a time.The system uses a two-tier architecture, with a central controller that makes big-picture decisions about which tasks each storage device performs, and local controllers…

Location : The A5 northbound between the junctions with the M54 and the A49 East of Shrewsbury. Reason : Road traffic collision. Status : Cleared. Source link

DEScycle is building the next generation of metals processing infrastructure.  They have created a distributed, modular metals recovery platform that moves beyond centralised smelting, being faster and cheaper to deploy. The company is turning domestic waste into sovereign metal supply.   Website: www.descycle.com     Tell Us About DEScycle   DEScycle is building the next generation of metals processing infrastructure for a world facing accelerating demand for critical materials. Electrification, AI, and the energy transition are driving metals demand faster than the infrastructure designed to supply it. Today’s smelting-based system remains centralised, capital-intensive, and slow to scale. DEScycle introduces a…

Chaos Labs has parted ways with the Aave ecosystem after serving as the crypto lending protocol’s main risk service provider for three years, citing a budget dispute and disagreements over how Aave should manage risk.“This decision was not made in haste,” Chaos Labs founder Omer Goldberg said in a post to X on Monday. “We worked in good faith with DAO contributors. Aave Labs was professional and supported increasing our budget to $5m to retain us. However, we are leaving because the engagement no longer reflects how we believe risk should be managed.”Source: Omer GoldbergAave Labs CEO Stani Kulechov said…

CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, is trialling new traffic management technology to reduce congestion during an approximately ten-day road closure in West Sussex. The closure of Long Furlong in Worthing begins on April 13 and will allow for essential digital infrastructure upgrades as part of the UK government’s Project Gigabit. To help keep traffic moving, CityFibre is partnering with BUKO Digital to test a system designed to improve driver communication, streamline diversions and ease congestion on surrounding roads. Adrian Smith, partnership manager for CityFibre, said: “We’re excited to be trialling this impressive technology to benefit road users…

As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth and work could be reshaped in an “intelligence age.” The ideas blend traditionally left-leaning mechanisms like public wealth funds and expanded social safety nets with a fundamentally capitalist, market-driven economic framework.  OpenAI’s proposals are essentially a wish list, a public declaration that helps elected officials, investors, and the public understand how the $852 billion company sees the world shifting in an age where artificial intelligence transforms labor and the economy. The proposals were released amid…