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“If you love cider, this is cider to the power of 10,” says Barny Butterfield, speaking about the flavours packed by some of this year’s “special” apples.Indeed Butterfield, the owner of Sandford Orchards, near Exeter, is buying extra tanks to increase cider production after the UK’s hottest summer on record resulted in an abundance of fruit.“I think God’s a cider maker,” he joked. To thrive, fruit trees need heat and light and this year “we had lots of both”.“I’ve had boughs breaking on trees under the weight of fruit,” Butterfield continued. “It’s probably going to be the best vintage since…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysApple just launched its iPhone 17 Pro. The new model includes some enticing upgrades. I have had the 16 Pro for one year, and might trade it in. While most people choose to wait several years before upgrading their iPhones, that’s a bit more challenging for tech aficionados like myself. I really wanted to hold out on upgrading my daily driver, the iPhone 16 Pro, but after watching the launch event and learning about the newest iPhone 17 Pro release in specs, I am nearly convinced to make the upgrade. Also: Apple iPhone 17…

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet picked up the top People’s Choice honor Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival during a 50th edition that followed Venice, Telluride and Cannes. The Nomadland director’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, a fictionalized account of Shakespeare and his wife as they fall in love, stars Paul Mescal as the Bard. The drama bowed in Telluride, where it garnered critical praise, especially for leading lady Jessie Buckley, and had a Canadian premiere in Toronto. Zhao accepted the top audience prize at Toronto via a video link, and expressed gratitude and stressed the importance of making an audience connection…

The 2025 WNBA playoffs have arrived. All four first-round series will get underway Sunday with an exciting quadruple header. Notably, the best-of-three first round has been switched from a 2-1 format to a 1-1-1 format this season, which not only guarantees every team a home game, but gives the higher seed the winner-take-all Game 3 at home, if necessary. Here’s a quick look at Sunday’s schedule:Previously, our panel of experts made their overarching predictions on which team will lift the trophy next month. Now, it’s time to take a look at each first round series. No. 1 Minnesota Lynx vs. No. 8…

Doctors have developed special eye drops for people with longsightedness that could replace the need for reading glasses or surgery.Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have presbyopia, which is when the eyes find it difficult to focus on objects and text up close. Glasses or surgery can usually resolve the problem but many find wearing spectacles inconvenient and having an operation is not an option for everyone.Now experts say the solution could be as simple as using eye drops twice a day.A study presented on Sunday at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) in Copenhagen showed most…

Supporters of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead on Wednesday, have launched online campaigns calling for anyone believed to be celebrating Kirk’s death on social media to lose their jobs. Teachers, airline employees and military personnel have all been targeted for public comments they made after the shooting.

Notorious gangster Al Capone attempts to help unemployed men with his soup kitchen “Big Al’s Kitchen for the Needy.” The kitchen provides three meals a day consisting of soup with meat, bread, coffee, and doughnuts, feeding about 3500 people daily at a cost of $300 per day.Bettmann Archive Thoroughgoing Keynesian Ben Bernanke once quipped to Milton Friedman (1912-2006), “You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry.” What did they or “we” do? According to Friedman, the Fed failed to increased the so-called “money supply” in the 1930s, thus the economic downturn. Bernanke and Friedman’s incorrect analysis was rooted in the…

Failure to complete the revision process would leave the EPA vulnerable to claims that it’s relying on an incomplete draft report for its scientific justifications. So, while the DOE’s tactics may protect some of its internal documents, it may ultimately cause larger problems for the Trump administration’s agenda. Attacking the academies Earlier this year, we were critical of the US’s National Academies of Science for seemingly refusing to respond to the Trump administration’s attacks on science. That reticence appeared to end in August with the release of the DOE climate report and the announcement that the EPA was using that…

Unless doctors stop striking and help Labour fix the damage inflicted by the Tories, the NHS will end up dying under a government led by Reform, Wes Streeting has warned.Speaking at a special meeting of the British Medical Association’s representative body on Sunday, the health secretary said hospitals and GP surgeries were “hanging by a thread” after more than a decade of neglect by the Conservatives.Progress is being made at rescuing the NHS from the biggest crisis in its history, Streeting insisted, but said it required “a team effort” and would only be successful if medics became “friends, not foes”.“The…

Charlie Kirk was not a fan of Coldplay — once saying he found its music “very hard to listen to” — but nevertheless, the band’s frontman, Chris Martin, has encouraged fans to spread love throughout the world including to Kirk’s family. Martin, during Coldplay’s concert at London’s Wembley Stadium on Friday evening, appealed to the crowd to “send love anywhere you want to send it in the world,” including to “to Charlie Kirk’s family.” Kirk, the pro-Trump founder of student-oriented conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA, was shot and killed Wednesday at a debate at Utah Valley University. He was 31.…