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Google Maps: 3D Navigation and Ask Maps Become a Digital Co-Pilot
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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What until now felt like a fairly conventional navigation app is now becoming a kind of digital co-pilot. Google Maps...
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Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong enters dry dock at Yulin Naval Base
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Satellite imagery has confirmed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) aircraft carrier Shandong (CV-17) has moved into dry...
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US Aluminium Smelter Returns to the Strategic Metals Race
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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As geopolitical competition for resources intensifies, Washington is discreetly supporting the return of an industrial force that had been dormant...
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Japan’s ASM-3A Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile Explained
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Public attention may still be centred on fighter aircraft and warships, but Japanese engineers have been refining a supersonic anti-ship...
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Gérard’s land gift and the inheritance tax shock
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The telephone rang on a Tuesday morning, as the kettle continued to whistle. Gérard, a 72-year-old retired bricklayer, had only...
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FIAT 500 Hybrid and Panda drive FIAT's 2026 strategy
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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After a period defined by electrification, FIAT has entered 2026 with a more pragmatic strategic adjustment. The Italian marque remains...
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China’s Navy Could Have Half Its Submarine Fleet Nuclear-Powered by 2035
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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During a hearing entitled “A Part of Their World: The Undersea Competition Between the US and China”, naval officers and...
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Parcoursup: 28 rejections for a 16-year-old with a 1.8-equivalent average
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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A baccalauréat at 16, a 1.8-equivalent average, praise from every direction – then a shock that calls everything into question....
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U.S. Air Force C-17 Transports Ward250 Nuclear Microreactor in Operation Windlord
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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In a development with no recent equivalent, a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter has carried a nuclear...
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What happens when an heir refuses to attend the notary’s office?
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Family divided, unresolved grief, assets left in limbo. One heir disappears, signs nothing, and the succession process grinds to a...
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2026 Honda Civic: 90 kg Lighter Hybrid Platform Explained
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Honda is discreetly preparing a new Civic intended to be lighter, cleaner and more engaging to drive, while remaining a...
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Cristóbal Colón, Charles de Gaulle and Jacques Chevallier conduct refuelling exercise in the eastern Mediterranean
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The frigate Cristóbal Colón, aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and replenishment vessel Jacques Chevallier recently took part in a refuelling...
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Why Raising the Retirement Age to 75 Changes Everything
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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On a wet Tuesday morning in Frankfurt, Lukas, a grey-haired accountant, looked at the headline glowing on his phone: “Raise...
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79°N Glacier: Meltwater Is Cracking and Draining a Greenland Ice Tongue
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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High over the Arctic Ocean, a floating glacier tongue is bending, fracturing and rising as meltwater races through it, providing...
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Brazilian Air Force F-39E Gripen flies first Air Defence Alert mission
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) has marked a new operational milestone with the first Air Defence Alert mission flown by...
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February law: how inheritance tax can leave your spouse exposed
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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On a grey February morning, in a small notary’s office behind the tax building, a woman in her early sixties...
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India’s €28 Billion Plan for 114 Rafale Fighter Jets
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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A major fighter-jet agreement is moving quietly through New Delhi’s administrative system, with substantial funding, domestic employment and regional influence...
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Google Maps gets new 3D navigation and Gemini assistant
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Google Maps, the app that has become the default choice in the car for many people, is currently being reinvented....
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USAF F-47 fighter may not be ready before 2030, congressman says
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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A US congressman has offered a hint about the anticipated delivery timetable for the F-47 programme, stating recently that the...
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When Social Housing Stops Being a Primary Residence
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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A neighbour says the door has not opened for two years. The landlord says the meter hardly changes. The retired...
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Germany’s New Hydrogen Turbine Record Challenges the US and NASA
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Away from launch pads and inside laboratory facilities, German engineers have demonstrated a hydrogen turbine milestone that is challenging US...
