Controversy surrounds the planned Chinese ‘super-embassy’ in London as passport checks at a historic British heritage site threaten to reshape UK sovereignty and security landscape. Chinese state security officials are set to conduct passport checks on visitors wishing to tour the ruins of St Mary Graces, an ancient Cistercian Abbey…

A UK parliamentary report disputes the notion that environmental protections hinder housing development, highlighting skills shortages and resource issues as primary obstacles in meeting ambitious targets. An inquiry by MPs has decisively found that nature is not a barrier to housing growth, directly challenging claims made by UK government ministers…

Struggles with street clutter and pest issues in Tower Hamlets prompt trials of subterranean waste bins, signalling a potential shift in London’s approach to urban refuse collection amidst rising frustrations and innovative solutions. Loïc Frémond’s experience encapsulates the growing frustration among residents in parts of London, particularly in Tower Hamlets,…

Recent local power surges and a massive solar flare highlight society’s fragile dependence on digital infrastructure, raising fears of catastrophic disruptions akin to the historic Carrington Event that could cripple modern life. An explosion resembling a bomb rocked windows and plunged a Bristol neighbourhood into darkness during a thunderstorm, with…

Recent innovations in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) are revolutionising how large language models are aligned with human values, blending scalability with safety to create more responsible AI systems, despite persistent challenges like bias and hallucinations. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a pivotal technique in…

The digital transformation of solar power plants has reached a pivotal stage, where Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have become the backbone of smart solar operations. No longer mere collections of photovoltaic panels, modern solar installations leverage advanced SCADA architectures to ensure real-time visibility, seamless control, and comprehensive…

Researchers from Presidency University have developed JobSphere, a sophisticated AI career assistant for Punjab’s employment platform. Utilising a cost-effective, multilingual Llama 3.2 model with advanced features, the platform aims to significantly improve usability for job seekers through enhanced accuracy, accessibility, and automation. Government employment portals are often fraught with usability…

Enterprise AI in 2026 is shifting focus from massive models to specialised, autonomous systems that enhance operational efficiency, despite adoption challenges and scepticism about business value. In 2026, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is witnessing a profound shift away from the pursuit of ever-larger models towards more specialised, right-sized…

A novel hybrid metaheuristic, AQSCA, integrates sine-cosine dynamics, Levy flights, and chaotic sequences to enhance exploration and exploitation, outperforming conventional algorithms in high-dimensional and real-world engineering problems. The Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA), initially proposed by Mirjalili, represents a novel, population-based metaheuristic optimizer designed to solve complex real-world optimization problems through…

Shoppers and engineers are turning to advanced RAG techniques to make LLMs actually useful for real work, not just demos. This guide explains who benefits, what to change in your pipeline, and where to start so your retrieval-augmented generation setup becomes more accurate, faster, and explainable. RAG basics: Combines retrieval…

Shoppers are discovering hybrid search is the missing piece when PostgreSQL meets embeddings, and it matters because combining sparse keyword signals with dense vectors gives much better precision for exact terms, codes or dates. This guide walks through the what, why and how of hybrid sparse‑dense search with pgvector, reciprocal…

Shoppers and developers are turning to hybrid search to get the best of both worlds , precise keyword results plus contextual LLM-powered relevance , and it matters because modern apps, from travel planners to RAG systems, need reliable retrieval. If you want a top-rated, affordable way to add accurate search…