The Latest Breaking News from Simon Hunt

The work of the late Stephen Cummins remains an archive of joy amid the gloom – and it’s screening at a Melbourne retrospective

Plus a fully automated transcript of today’s episode...

After Google announced a raft of new artificial intelligence features at its I/O developers conference, the Evening Standard’s Tech Reporter Simon Hunt tells Tech & Science Daily how significant the new AI announcements are.

Joseph Hamilton reassures Catholics the protests are a mere ‘ripple’ as survivors of clergy abuse tie ribbons to fence around St Mary’s Cathedral

Brits have lost more than £600 million to fraud in the first half of 2022 alone

‘Red tape’ is a revealing concept. To some, it represents bureaucracy (ideally of the foreign kind) ‘gone mad’. Think Brussels directives on the correct angle of a banana – a myth based on EU Commission Regulation No 2257/94 on standards for bananas.

Plus, the unique meteor being recovered from the ocean...

"...I wanted them to hit me with the water balloons as much as they wanted to because it was absolutely boiling"

Experts estimate it belonged to a person who lived somewhere between 3516 and 3365 BC