Science & Technology

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online The creator of Tilly Norwood, an artificial intelligence–generated actress, has insisted that the rise of digital performers will not take jobs away from real actors. AI entertainment studio Particle6, led by actor and comedian Eline Van der Velden, unveiled the synthetic actress earlier this year, sparking heated debate across Hollywood. Many fear that AI-driven characters could threaten...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Australia’s beloved weather website, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), faced massive public backlash after a long-awaited redesign went live, leaving users frustrated and confused. The relaunch occurred on 22 October, an unseasonably hot spring day in Sydney, with forecasts predicting 39C (99F). Just the day before, New South Wales had recorded its hottest day in over a...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Japanese beer giant Asahi revealed on Thursday that a massive cyber-attack in September has potentially exposed the personal information of more than 1.5 million customers. The company stated that the attack had affected its operations across factories in Japan and forced employees to manually process orders while systems were offline. Asahi said preliminary investigations showed that personal...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Archaeologists are preparing to resume excavations at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney after an unexpected discovery was revealed through advanced 3D radar technology. The site, widely regarded as one of the most significant Neolithic settlements in the British Isles, was previously the focus of over 20 years of extensive digs, which officially concluded in 2024. However,...

Published: 26 November 2025 Wednesday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, has introduced a new “transparency feature” aimed at providing users with more information about the accounts they interact with. The feature, announced by Nikita Bier, head of product at X, has sparked discussion and concern about its implications for user privacy and safety....

Published: 25 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Social media platforms are being urged to introduce stricter measures to limit internet “pile-ons” under new guidance aimed at protecting women and girls online. The recommendations, issued by Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, address misogynist abuse, coercive control, and the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, and are intended to provide practical tools for tech companies to safeguard their...

Published: 24 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A critical shortage of paediatric pathologists is forcing bereaved parents to endure months of agonising waits to learn the cause of their child’s death. Families who have lost children are reporting “harrowing” delays, with one in five now waiting six months or more for post-mortem results, according to the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath). The shortage has been...

Published: 24 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A leading thinktank has urged that hospitals must become smaller to help rescue the NHS from its “permacrisis.” Re:State, formerly known as Reform, said hospitals require a fundamental reinvention to prevent widespread overcrowding that has worsened over the past decade. Politicians and NHS leaders may need to make difficult, potentially controversial decisions to downsize hospitals while maintaining patient...

Published: 24 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The UK government has launched plans to accelerate the construction of new nuclear reactors by simplifying regulations, aiming to reduce costs while maintaining safety. A dedicated nuclear regulatory taskforce, established by Prime Minister Keir Starmer in February, has finalised recommendations to overhaul the existing framework, which officials describe as “archaic” and unnecessarily complex. The reforms are intended to...

Published: 24 November 2025. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Funeral directors across Britain are warning that an increasing number of coffins are now too large to be cremated, reflecting the country’s escalating obesity crisis. Scotland’s largest independent funeral home has reported a steady rise in the use of wider caskets and heavier pall-bearers, alongside the need for more powerful cremation furnaces. These changes, industry experts say, highlight...