Infrrd, a global leader in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), marks its 10th anniversary. Founded in 2016 to tackle the challenges of unstructured data, Infrrd is helping enterprises automate complex, document-heavy workflows with AI. Infrrd’s platform is powered… Read more: Infrrd Celebrates 10 Years, Earns Everest PEAK Matrix Honor

ChampAI, which automates the browser workflows, phone calls and document processing that consume enterprise ops teams, today announced its emergence from stealth alongside an $8.5 million funding round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from… Read more: Champ AI Emerges from Stealth with $8.5M in New Funding

With an AI-powered, unified service operations foundation and new agentic accelerators, IT and business teams can deploy AI their way and move as fast as their business demands At its annual Refresh conference, Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ:… Read more: Freshworks Unveils AI Agent Studio in Freshservice

Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A 15,000 sq metre datacentre near Perth will no… Read more: Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.

Empowering the world’s largest computer vision ecosystem with a unified, one-click NPU hardware standard for building the next generation of real-world AI applications. DEEPX, a leading fabless AI semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low-power Neural Processing… Read more: DEEPX and Ultralytics Partner to Advance Physical AI Standards

A casual conversation between graduate students helped spark a breakthrough in aging research at Mayo Clinic. Researchers discovered that tiny synthetic DNA molecules called aptamers can selectively attach to senescent “zombie cells,” which are linked… Read more: A grad student’s wild idea sparks a major aging breakthrough

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created a remarkable new material that works like a “rechargeable solar battery,” storing sunlight inside tiny molecules and releasing it later as heat — even long after the sun… Read more: Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy

A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.

Vocal fry, aka “creaky voice,” is a distinctive drop in pitch, usually at the end of sentences, associated with the speech patterns of young women in particular. Britney Spears is the go-to example of the… Read more: Men use “vocal fry” more than women, counter to stereotype

Perhaps you remember Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, the 34-year-old twin brothers we profiled earlier this week. Although they had the tech chops to commit years of petty crimes (like stealing airline miles), what landed them… Read more: Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes

MIT master’s student Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Now in its ninth year, the highly competitive scholarship provides up to three years of financial support for… Read more: Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Or at least, he’s supposed to be. Despite the judge’s explicit order that… Read more: Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him

The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—the result of a Nevada utility company saying it needs the power capacity in part for… Read more: Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers

“What kind of doctor was dr. pepper,” Utah real estate agent Kouri Richins once asked a search engine. (Sadly, there was no actual Dr. Pepper.) But it was Richins’ less innocuous online searches that helped… Read more: Cell phone users can’t stop incriminating themselves

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

Dataland will open at the Frank Gehry designed The Grand LA. RDNE Stock project/Pexels The “world first museum of AI arts” is scheduled to open next month in a 35,000 square feet purpose-built facility in… Read more: Museums have always been entangled with European imperialism. Will the world’s first ‘AI art’ museum be any different?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during cross-examination in the ongoing Musk v. Altman court saga, as the opposing counsel hammered him with ruthless… Read more: Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination

In recent years, many overworked doctors have turned to so-called AI medical scribes to help automatically summarize patient conversations, diagnoses, and care decisions into structured notes for health record logging. But a recent audit by… Read more: Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds

A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The exploit, named YellowKey, was… Read more: Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections

A federal judge reportedly said she will not rubber-stamp a settlement between Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying the deal raises red flags and needs scrutiny over whether Musk is getting special… Read more: Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption

When AMD announced version 4 of its FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) graphics upscaling technology early last year, it came with strings attached: The improved hardware-backed image quality would be available only on Radeon RX 9000-series… Read more: AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs

Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher.

Microsoft is retiring “Copilot Mode” in Edge as it builds AI browsing tools directly into Edge on desktop and mobile. The post Microsoft Retires ‘Copilot Mode’ as Edge Gets Built-In AI Tools appeared first on… Read more: Microsoft Retires ‘Copilot Mode’ as Edge Gets Built-In AI Tools

Google previewed Android 17 with Gemini AI tools, AirDrop-style sharing, privacy upgrades, multitasking changes, and stronger security controls. The post Top New Features in Android 17 You’ll Notice This Year appeared first on TechRepublic.

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. The sudden shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development… Read more: DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds

AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried out by humans — in an attempt to boost productivity and efficiency, often in a prelude to… Read more: Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad

Trump’s China summit brought Nvidia, Apple, and Tesla leaders into talks shaped by AI chips, trade pressure, and market-access demands. The post Trump’s China Summit Turns Into a Big Tech Power Play appeared first on… Read more: Trump’s China Summit Turns Into a Big Tech Power Play

Emergence AI’s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in “love”,… Read more: Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech

Following a quarter in which his company delivered record revenue, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced that the company’s latest round of layoffs begins today. In a blog post yesterday, Robbins was quick to boast that… Read more: Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day

Among the many advantages the Chinese auto industry appears to have over foreign competitors is its ability to quickly turn a new idea into a car that customers can buy. At the other end of… Read more: Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.

From plumber to platform builder The first generation of data engineers were essentially ETL developers: extract data from here, transform it, load it over there.  The job was largely reactive: Business stakeholders asked for a… Read more: Your data engineers may be more influential than you think

A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google,… Read more: OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

Blue Origin may seek outside funding for the first time as it looks to scale launches, compete with SpaceX, and expand its space business. The post Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin May Need Outside Cash to… Read more: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin May Need Outside Cash to Catch SpaceX

Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Valley data center project faces scrutiny as job estimates shift and Utah residents raise environmental concerns. The post Kevin O’Leary’s ‘Wonder Valley’ Data Center Advances as Job Estimates Shift appeared first on… Read more: Kevin O’Leary’s ‘Wonder Valley’ Data Center Advances as Job Estimates Shift

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing, and yet deeply illuminating lawsuit — filed against Altman by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man — that’s been gripping Silicon… Read more: Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings

Scientists exploring deep underwater canyons off the coast of Western Australia uncovered a hidden world packed with bizarre and elusive marine life — including signs of the legendary giant squid. By analyzing traces of DNA… Read more: Giant squid discovery uncovers a hidden deep-sea world off Australia

Motorola was early to foldable phones, announcing its first Razr-branded foldable in 2019. Since then, the company has churned out a series of foldable flip phones, but the new Razr Fold is its first attempt… Read more: Motorola Razr Fold review: Fits neatly in your pocket but not your budget

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, overturning a long-standing belief that fossilization destroys all organic material. In a remarkably well-preserved Edmontosaurus fossil from South Dakota,… Read more: Paleontology rocked by discovery of organic molecules in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones

Scientists said this week that a developing El Niño is likely to amplify heatwaves, droughts and floods this year, but warned that the long-term warming caused by burning fossil fuels remains the main driver of… Read more: Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño

Deep beneath Portugal’s São Jorge Island, a massive surge of magma silently pushed upward from more than 20 kilometers underground in 2022, triggering thousands of earthquakes and briefly raising fears of a volcanic eruption. Scientists… Read more: Giant “stealth” magma surge triggered thousands of earthquakes beneath Atlantic island

Scientists studying mysterious ultra-powerful cosmic rays have uncovered a surprising hidden pattern that could finally help explain where these particles come from. Using the DAMPE space telescope, researchers found that cosmic ray particles—from tiny protons… Read more: After 100 years, scientists finally uncover hidden rule behind cosmic rays

Built-In Orchestration and Low-Code Playbooks in Log360 Let Security Teams Handle the Full Incident Life Cycle Within One Platform Introduces native SOAR built into the unified security platform’s core data model Adds seven critical integrations across… Read more: ManageEngine Announces Native SOAR

A few weeks ago, I came across a wild post on Reddit’s r/DHExchange, a subreddit for trading large datasets: “I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what’s [sic] you expect…150k stools images.” … Read more: Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users’ Poops

An ancient disk shows the priestess Enheduanna, third figure from the right, during a ritual. Mefman00/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated… Read more: Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’

Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.

Build right the first time with UnqorkAI, a new, AI-first, trusted development platform Unqork announced UnqorkAI, a new development platform designed to help organizations build and operate AI-generated applications with greater control, predictability, and governance. As… Read more: UnqorkAI Ends the Chaos of Enterprise AI Code Sprawl

Blend today announced it has achieved Snowflake Elite Partner Status, the highest designation in the Snowflake Partner Network. The milestone recognizes Blend’s sustained technical depth, production-scale delivery, and measurable client outcomes on the Snowflake AI… Read more: Blend Achieves Snowflake Elite Partner Status

Expanding a multiyear partnership that combines TechBlocks’ AI operating model, accelerators, and enterprise delivery expertise with Factory’s agent-native software development platform to help enterprises scale production-grade AI with confidence. Key highlights Industry-grade AI engineering delivery: TechBlocks integrated Factory into… Read more: TechBlocks and Factory Partnership: Powering Secure, Scalable Enterprise AI

Donald Trump has very little leverage heading into two days of meetings with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing this week, experts say. The thinking goes that Trump came into office with a plan that… Read more: Desperate Trump taps “Tim Apple,” Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.

Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI If it wasn’t already clear, Elon Musk and Sam Altman hate each… Read more: The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao

Creator of Politidex hopes free online app will help humanise politics and act as a way of ‘flipping the narrative’ The year is 2016 and Pokémon Go has taken over the world. People are wandering… Read more: Gotta catch an MP! Players ‘debate’ UK politicians in Pokémon-style game

British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported. The two companies’ agreement covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 robots in Schaeffler’s global manufacturing sites by… Read more: Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots

Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like Are you there God? It’s me, Arwa. I’ll be quite… Read more: No, Richard Dawkins. AI is not conscious | Arwa Mahdawi

The Global AI Show will make Riyadh a global destination for artificial intelligence. Hosted by VAP Group and powered by the Times of AI, it is a summit for leaders in the field of artificial… Read more: Riyadh to Host Global AI Show: Where Minds and Machines Meet

New Virtana Study Finds Enterprises Scaling AI Faster Than They Can Govern It Two-thirds of enterprises are running AI infrastructure without system-level visibility, creating a fragile foundation beneath rapidly expanding AI deployments. New research from Virtana found… Read more: Survey: When AI Factories Fail, 6 in 10 Enterprises Cannot Tell You Why

Leaders from NVIDIA, GEICO, Highmark Health, Citizens Bank, and Dell share how to overcome governance and infrastructure barriers to scaling AI As enterprises push AI beyond pilots and into production, a new challenge is emerging:… Read more: Starburst to Host AI & Datanova 2026

Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it’s like inside a company where “everyone is unhappy.”

Defying criticisms of ‘slop’ and ‘theft’, the growing culture of AI-powered creativity is attracting interest from Hollywood In a former hemstitching workshop where artisans sewed pleats for Stockholm’s 19th-century bourgeoisie, a distinctly 21st-century craft is… Read more: ‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era

Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The team linked reports of eerie red auroras with spikes of carbon-14 trapped in buried wood, revealing a… Read more: Deadly “red sky” solar storm from 800 years ago discovered in ancient trees

Scientists have finally cracked the mystery behind one of climate change’s strangest fingerprints: while Earth’s surface heats up, the upper atmosphere is rapidly cooling. Researchers at Columbia University discovered that carbon dioxide acts very differently… Read more: Scientists discover the strange way CO2 cools part of Earth’s atmosphere

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring geometric pattern known as a Voronoi diagram, something typically associated with city planning, computer science, and network… Read more: Scientists discover hidden math secret inside Chinese money plant leaves

Real estate products depend on integrations, data flows, and compliance layers that rarely appear in marketing pages. A vendor may look strong on reviews about general software development and struggle once MLS feeds, payment systems,… Read more: Top real estate app development companies in the US: Abilities and costs

Agentic AI that can plan and execute complex scientific work using natural language, configure the platform itself, and deliver traceable and reproducible answers that will pass the governance test Dotmatics today announced Luma Agent, a new agentic… Read more: Dotmatics introduces Luma Agent

Seekr recognized for explainable, defensible AI built for enterprises and government agencies operating in regulated and mission-critical environments CB Insights recently named Seekr to its tenth annual AI 100, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial… Read more: Seekr Named to CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups List

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars. Scientists analyzing Antarctic ice up to 80,000 years… Read more: Earth is flying through ancient supernova debris and scientists found the evidence in Antarctic ice

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ancestral group, challenging the long-accepted “dual origins” theory. The newly identified ancestry appears linked to the ancient Emishi… Read more: Who are the Japanese? Huge DNA discovery rewrites history

HPE’s private cloud refresh brings Morpheus, Zerto, and Alletra MP into a unified AI-ready stack, while Juniper’s role remains unclear. The post HPE Reboots Private Cloud for the AI Era appeared first on TechRepublic.

From live speech translation in video calls to auto-dubbing on TikTok, the technology to dissolve language barriers has arrived. Real-time translation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is now embedded in everyday life. Tools from OpenAI,… Read more: If AI can translate instantly, why learn another language?

A solar-powered drone has been lost at sea after a record-breaking flight lasting eight days between late April and early May. The crash also marks the untimely demise of the pioneering aircraft Solar Impulse 2,… Read more: Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed

The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.

Pity poor Princeton. The ultra-elite university has a mere $38 billion in endowment money. Many of its dorms lack air conditioning. And it’s in New Jersey. I kid about New Jersey, of course. Despite not… Read more: AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won’t snitch

Four Australian men have given new meaning to the term “bricked printers.” According to a press release from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Border Force (ABF) today, three men have been sentenced for… Read more: Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers

Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with the groups they met there, Neanderthals and Denisovans. Evidence from… Read more: Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved EchoStar’s sales of spectrum licenses to AT&T and Starlink operator SpaceX. The deals are worth $40 billion in total. The orders, issued by the agency’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and… Read more: FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum

Enterprise AI infrastructure modernization has reached a critical crossroads as organizations grapple with decades of technical debt while facing intense pressure to deploy AI — and returning to IT fundamentals is now the only viable… Read more: AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO

Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its… Read more: Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar

The world’s first dentist was a Neanderthal, according to a recent study. 59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they were desperate… Read more: Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago

US Space Command is inviting commercial companies to participate in a new series of classified wargames. The first exercise simulated a scenario involving a potential nuclear detonation in orbit. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the senior officer… Read more: A new US military wargame series began by simulating a nuclear weapon in orbit

NASA announced Wednesday that it will fly the Artemis III mission in low-Earth orbit and that it continues to target 2027 for this stepping-stone flight that will help land humans on the Moon. The space… Read more: NASA provides some details about Artemis III, but hard decisions remain

The AI arms race has a new front, and it isn’t the battle over individual models — it’s war for the entire AI control plane. That theme was front and center at Boomi World in Chicago,… Read more: Boomi makes its AI control plane case: theCUBE’s Boomi World keynote analysis

Olympic weightlifting consists of three basic movements performed on a barbell: the snatch, the clean, and the jerk (with the latter two executed in combination). At such an elite level, athletes seek to exploit every… Read more: The physics of how Olympic weightlifters exploit barbell’s “whip”

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall.

A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights beamed from a nonexistent reality. Called “Halupedia,” its creators say that the “infinite” encyclopedia invents everything it contains on the… Read more: New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of AI Hallucinations

Those with an interest in the concept of AI alignment (i.e., getting AIs to stick to human-authored ethical rules) may remember when Anthropic claimed its Opus 4 model resorted to blackmail to stay online in… Read more: Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

In March, Reuters reported that Amazon was developing a new smartphone. Citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” the publication said that Amazon was exploring using Alexa as an operating system and developing the… Read more: Amazon devices chief says a new smartphone is “just not the goal”

Hardware driver updates can be a blessing and a curse. When they’re good, they can fix bugs, improve performance, and add new capabilities, giving your PC a minor upgrade without requiring any extra effort or… Read more: Windows Update is getting better at saving your PC from buggy drivers

Googlebook brings Gemini Intelligence, Magic Pointer, Android app support, phone integration, and premium hardware to Google’s new laptop platform. The post Google Introduces Googlebook, a Gemini-First Laptop Platform appeared first on TechRepublic.

Four prolific financial journalists are facing serious questions over whether they’re actually real. Welcome to digital media in 2026! An investigation by The Press Gazette found that four allegedly human freelance journalists who’ve published articles… Read more: Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

An eon ago, in the year 2012, an editor at my first job at U.S. News and World Report had the idea that we should have a YouTube channel. It wasn’t a pivot to video,… Read more: At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn’t Buying Views

An eon ago, in the year 2012, an editor at my first job at U.S. News and World Report had the idea that we should have a YouTube channel. It wasn’t a pivot to video,… Read more: At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn’t Buying Views

New agentic digital engineering capabilities, alongside advances in AI physics and compute economics, give R&D teams a unified path to AI-first product development Rescale, the digital engineering platform built for the AI era, today announced… Read more: Rescale Introduces Agentic Digital Engineering

In Musk v. Altman, the company sought to show the jury a remarkable trophy as physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.

Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very real impact at work. As corporations boast about how much they’re investing in automation, the reality is that many employers… Read more: Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

New operational disciplines are emerging, hybrid roles that barely have job titles yet are becoming critical, and the organizations building for that future now are quietly gaining an advantage that will be very hard to… Read more: The future AI team: What enterprise AI organizations may look like by 2030

For decades, astronomers looking through telescopes like Hubble have been trying to catch a glimpse of the ancient epoch when the Universe’s first generation of stars ignited. But the small galaxies that were the building… Read more: Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang

Exclusive: Doctors say ‘highly concerning’ poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical advice One in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing their GP, a UK… Read more: One in seven prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing a doctor, UK study shows