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A Moroccan social media influencer convicted of helping to rob Romanian fashion designer Catalin Botezatu of a £170,000 Richard Mille watch in Mayfair is facing a prison sentence. Abdel El Habchi, 30, and Ali Eldahouzze, 22, were found guilty of robbery by a jury at Southwark Crown Court. Younes Djoudi, 34, had admitted the offence before the trial. The three men targeted Mr Botezatu shortly before midnight on 28 January after he left the Amazonico restaurant in Berkeley Square. He had been standing outside with a friend and smoking a cigar when the group approached. The court heard that Eldahouzze…

With the US midterm elections approaching, swing voters in Pennsylvania say Donald Trump has failed to deliver on his promise to bring down prices, putting affordability at the centre of their political calculations. The views emerged in the latest instalment of NPR political correspondent Tamara Keith’s “Swing Shift” project, which follows voters whose decisions could prove crucial in a closely contested state. Three Pennsylvania voters shared their experiences of the cost of living, describing what affordability means in their daily lives and how their concerns may influence their choices at the midterms. Their accounts underline the continuing political importance of…

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source artificial intelligence platform, for $12.93 billion in one of the biggest takeovers yet of a company built around openly available AI models. The deal, announced by Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang on Thursday, will bring the platform’s extensive developer community and model library under the control of the world’s dominant AI chipmaker. Hugging Face was founded in New York in 2016 by French entrepreneurs Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf. Its name was inspired by the hugging face emoji, but the company has since grown into a central hub for…

Google has issued a Google Home update aimed at resolving problems with alarms, lists and Google Keep, while giving Gemini for Home a wider range of voice controls for media and smart-home devices. The changes affect Google smart speakers and displays, where users can now combine separate instructions in a single request. Google says Gemini can interpret a broader selection of commands, allowing people to control entertainment and connected devices more efficiently. For example, users can ask the assistant to turn off the lights and stop music at the same time, skip a song while switching on outside lights, or…

Everton have been offered the chance to sign former Manchester United forward Anthony Martial as they search for an emergency attacking option following the collapse of their late transfer plans. Representatives for the 30-year-old are understood to have approached the club about a possible move to Goodison Park, according to talkSPORT. No agreement has been reached and discussions remain at an exploratory stage. Martial is currently a free agent after leaving Mexican side Monterrey, allowing Everton to sign and register him despite the summer transfer window having closed. Anthony Martial offered to Everton as free agent The Frenchman is reportedly…

A ketogenic diet produced a substantially greater reduction in liver fat than Mediterranean and low-fat, plant-forward diets in a new clinical trial involving people with obesity, prediabetes and fatty liver, researchers have found. The study, published in Cell Metabolism on August 27, compared the effects of three eating plans after participants were guided to lose roughly 10 per cent of their body weight. Although all three diets improved muscle sensitivity to insulin, the keto group saw the strongest changes in liver metabolism and blood sugar control. Among those following the ketogenic diet, liver fat fell by about 67 per cent,…

James Duckworth is hoping his recent form has done enough to secure another Australia Davis Cup call-up for the World Group I tie against Poland in Brisbane later this month. The 34-year-old, currently Australia’s No.2 men’s singles player, remains in contention for a place in captain Lleyton Hewitt’s squad after continuing to produce consistent results on the ATP Tour. Duckworth’s latest campaign ended with a second-round defeat by China’s Yibing Wu at the US Open, but his place among Australia’s leading players has strengthened during a productive year. He also won a Challenger title in Sydney, the 17th of his…

Donald Trump’s uncompromising defence of America’s data-centre boom is widening a political faultline within the Republican Party, as candidates face mounting anger over electricity bills, water use and the spread of vast industrial sites across rural communities. The President dismissed opponents as people who wanted to remain “backwards and poor” in a social-media post after a Fox News discussion highlighted complaints from residents in Virginia, including Greg Pirio of Loudoun County, who raised concerns about noise and pollution. “The only reason that communities throughout the USA should not want data centres is if they want to end up being backwards…

A federal judge has warned that a Trump administration plan to restrict mail ballots could trigger “major disenfranchisement” if introduced just weeks before the November election. During a two-hour hearing in Boston on Thursday, US District Judge Indira Talwani repeatedly questioned government lawyers and representatives of Republican-led states over how the United States Postal Service could introduce the system in time without wrongly preventing legitimate voters from receiving ballots. Talwani did not immediately rule on whether to extend her temporary restraining order, which expires on September 10, but indicated that she intended to decide swiftly. The administration has appealed the…

Ray Kurzweil, the computer scientist and Google researcher known for his predictions about artificial intelligence, has joined Silicon Valley start-up Subsense as it develops a brain-computer interface using nanoparticles delivered through the nose. The appointment as product and vision adviser was announced at Subsense’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, on Wednesday evening, September 2. Kurzweil will advise on the company’s technology roadmap and its plans to combine artificial intelligence with neural interfaces. “Ultimately we want to merge [the smartphone] with the brain,” Kurzweil told the event. He said devices such as smartphones currently act as an intermediary between people and…