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'World's smallest' Wii is the size of a deck of cards, uses custom PCBs

A Nintendo Wii is successfully converted into the size of a deck of playing cards, and how to do it yourself is shared on GitHub.

Tom’s Hardware

‘They’re targeting healthcare workers’: airstrikes a constant fear for UK doctors in Gaza

Volunteers express concerns about continuing their work after Israeli attack that killed seven aid workers

The Guardian - UK

Yard Act review – a punk-funk workout for overthinkers

Touring their exuberant second album, the Leeds band are embracing their dancier side as their barbed observational songs get ever more intimate

The Guardian - UK

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Yard Act review – a band having fun in the midst of an identity crisis

Seeming to play their jagged post-punky early material with some reluctance, the Leeds band strike out into bold new territory with hypnotic electronic grooves, disco stompers – and a Napalm Death collab

The Guardian - UK

“My tone is already destroyed by the time it gets to the amp”: Yard Act are redefining post-punk guitar with plugins and ‘cheapo’ gear – and they reckon a Squier Bullet Tele sounds great DI’d

In a radical new album, Yard Act are blurring the lines between post-punk and hip-hop. Guitarist Sam Shipstone reveals how it was made – with sampling, budget gear and an experimental approach to tone

Guitar World

On Super Tuesday, abortion is driving Democrats to the polls in North Carolina

The Biden campaign says it sees a chance to win North Carolina in November. In the primary campaign, Democratic voters say new restrictions on abortion are motivating them to get to the polls.

WEKU

Yard Act: Where’s My Utopia? review – a leap forward for Leeds post-punkers

The band’s expanding ambitions encompass disco, strings and David Thewlis, as frontman James Smith gets reflective

The Guardian - UK

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget balancing act moves into the City's spotlight

Square Mile on watch for London stock exchange boost from new tax breaks for savers and experts say don't write off 2p income tax cut

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt warned not to spook markets with unfunded budget tax cuts; US consumer confidence drops – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as ING warn the pound could fall by 2% if chancellor misreads the mood of bond investors

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt’s ‘dubious’ financial planning lacks credibility, says IFS

Chancellor should resist temptation to announce unfunded tax cuts in March budget, advises leading thinktank

The Guardian - UK

UK public services will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn

Chancellor is considering cutting billions more from public spending to pay for reductions in tax or NI

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: James Smith of Yard Act’s cultural highlights

The singer on the power of trespassing, a life-changing film, and the one item of clothing he never takes off

The Guardian - UK

At least five patients dead after Israeli army raid on Nasser Hospital

Army arrests 20 people in the raid, saying some were involved in Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel.

Al Jazeera

‘We cannot operate, we have no drugs’: Gaza’s indirect casualties mount as health service decimated

Tens of thousands with life-threatening illnesses ‘defenceless’ after months without treatment, say doctors

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Blackout in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital as fuel runs out, babies at high risk

Israeli military attacks in the vicinity have left patients and medical staff to an uncertain fate.

Evening Standard

Chancellor has 'headroom' for £15bn worth or tax cuts of new spending at Autumn Statement, analysis finds

But that doesn't include the cost of extending temporary schemes that are already in place, which is likely to take up most of the £15bn

The Independent UK

Bank of England expected to keep interest rates unchanged amid risk of recession

Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee announces its next interest rates decision on Thursday

Evening Standard

Gang imprisoned after Met smashes £4m London and Essex drug ring

Met seize drugs with a street value of more than £4m after raids in London in Essex

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The Independent UK

Britain needs economic and fiscal policy ‘reset’ to fight future crises – report

The Resolution Foundation is warning the UK is on course for debt to rise to around 140% of economic output over the next 50 years.

The Guardian - UK

Sticky UK inflation puts Rishi Sunak’s target in jeopardy

Ministers face anxious wait and consumers more pain on prices as September rate stays steady

The Independent UK

‘I’m sorry, I cannot stop,’ pastor arrested for child porn tells FBI

Father-of-three Jose Saez Jr was detained following an online tip received by the FBI

The Guardian - UK

UK house prices tumble 4.6% in year to August; pound at lowest since June – as it happened

UK house prices are falling at fastest pace since 2009 on annual basis, reports Halifax, down in every region

Nottingham Post

The damning evidence which caught murderer Jamie Barrow

Despite a confession of sorts, Jamie Barrow denied his intention was to murder

Daily Record

Dalry School S4 pupils "strongly recommended" to move to Castle Douglas High

Head teacher James Smith made the recommendation after the year group dropped to just three pupils for the 2023/24 summer term

Daily Record

Dalry School parent says child "extremely distressed" at changes to S4 arrangements

The three remaining fourth year students have been given the "strong recommendation" to move to Castle Douglas High

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