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Nvidia boss Jensen Huang on Monday announced Alpamayo, a tech platform the company says will help self-driving cars think like humans.”Alpamayo brings reasoning to autonomous vehicles, allowing them to think through rare scenarios, drive safely in complex environments, and explain their driving decisions,” Huang said on stage at the annual CES technology conference in Las Vegas.Huang also said Nvidia has begun producing a driverless car powered by its technology, the Mercedes-Benz CLA, in partnership with the German automaker.The vehicle will be released in the US in the coming months before being rolled out in Europe and Asia.Wearing his trademark black…

Archie MitchellBusiness reporterGetty ImagesNestle has issued a global recall of some baby formula products over concerns they contain a toxin which can cause food poisoning.The food and drink giant said specific batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula were not safe to be fed to babies.The batches were sold across the world, Nestle said, and they potentially contain cereulide, which can cause nausea and vomiting when consumed.The company said there had been no confirmed reports of illness associated with the products, but was recalling them “out of an abundance of caution”.”The safety and wellbeing of babies is our…

Precious metal prices have risen after the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro increased investors’ concerns about geopolitical risks.Gold was about 2.2% higher at $4,424 (£3,292) an ounce, while the price of silver was up by 3.9%, as money was moved into so-called “safe-haven” assets.Meanwhile, crude oil prices fell back and share indexes in Europe and Asia were mostly higher.Both gold and silver hit record highs in 2025 before losing ground in the last few days of the year.Despite dipping at the end of last year, gold still saw its best annual performance since 1979 after rising by more…

Some major retailers and independent stores have introduced AI body scans, CCTV or facial recognition equipment to identify crimes like shoplifting.

Pallab GhoshScience CorrespondentBBCListen to Pallab read this articleLarissa Hope believes psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, helped her through a difficult mental health condition.Back when she was 17 and starting out as an actress, she was cast in the TV drama Skins, but the new-found fame brought out a previously buried trauma. She didn’t find antidepressants effective – but that small dose of psilocybin, which she took under clinical supervision, marked a turning point.”When I experienced it, I burst out crying,” she says today. “It was the first time in my life I had ever felt a sense of…

Kumail JafferLocal Democracy Reporting ServiceBBCPeople are choosing between food and basic hygiene products, campaigners saidAlmost a third of Londoners aged 16 to 55 cannot afford basic hygiene products, leaving them unable to live normally, a charity has warned.According to research from the Hygiene Bank, about three out of 10 women in London have had to choose between buying enough food or hygiene products, and some have missed job interviews or work because of it.It has been described as a “scandal that shouldn’t exist” by charity In Kind Direct which is campaigning with the Hygiene Bank to end it.A spokesperson for…

A woman has told the BBC she felt “dehumanised and reduced into a sexual stereotype” after Elon Musk’s AI Grok was used to digitally remove her clothing.The BBC has seen several examples on the social media platform X of people asking the chatbot to undress women to make them appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting them in sexual situations.XAI, the company behind Grok, did not respond to a request for comment, other than with an automatically-generated reply stating “legacy media lies”.Samantha Smith shared a post on X about her image being altered, which was met with…

From protecting against ageing to helping you sleep, Dr Alex George lists the benefits of running.

Getty ImagesBleeding radiators can released trapped air and allow heat to circulate properlyEvery winter brings a drop in temperatures and rising concerns about heating costs. With the energy price cap set to increase in January, we have gathered together some practical advice to help you keep warm and cut costs over the colder months.This month, millions of households will see a slight rise in their energy bills, as the energy regulator Ofgem increases the price cap by 0.2%.The price cap is the maximum amount energy suppliers can charge customers for each unit of energy in England, Scotland and Wales.Between 1…

Laura CressTechnology reporterCBS Photo ArchiveThe 2000 film Minority Report, set in 2054, imagined potential future technologies like controlling computers by making hand gesturesThe last 25 years has seen some mind-bending technological changes.At the start of the century, most computers connected to the internet with noisy dial-up connections, Netflix was an online DVD rental company, and the vast majority of people hadn’t even heard of a smartphone.Fast forward two and a half decades, and innovations in AI, robotics and much else besides are emerging at an incredible rate.So we decided to ask experts what the next 25 years could bring. Here…