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Red stripes declared U.K.’s oldest art after being dismissed as a natural phenomenon

LONDON — Dismissed as a natural phenomenon for more than a century, red stripes on a rock in Wales have been found to be the oldest known prehistoric art in Britain and northwestern Europe — created by human fingers 17,100 years ago, according to new research. An international team of scientists revisited Bacon Hole, a cave near Mumbles in South Wales, to re-examine the series of red-pigmented horizontal stripes on a panel first discovered there in 1912. The markings were initially...

GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe

The UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen as its processor for many payments made through its GOV.UK Pay service. Adyen will take over GOV.UK Pay card payments for local authorities, police forces and armed forces units from Stripe, as well as pay by bank services, under a three-year contract worth up to £25.3 million. According to the tender notice published in February 2025, the contract covers around 17 percent of payments made through GOV.UK...

Geometric Analysis of Magnetic Labyrinthine Stripe Evolution via Deep Learning Segmentation

Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Labyrinthine stripe patterns are common in many physical systems, yet their lack of long-range order makes quantitative characterization challenging. We investigate the evolution of such patterns in bismuth-doped yttrium iron garnet (Bi:YIG) films subjected to a magnetic field annealing protocol. A U-Net deep learning model, trained with synthetic degradations including additive white Gaussian and Simplex noise, enables robust segmentation of...

The Alienware AW3926QW is the world's first 39-inch 5K OLED monitor with an RGB stripe panel

The Alienware AW3926QW is the world's first 39-inch 5K OLED monitor with an RGB stripe panel Alienware is also releasing an updated 34-inch ultra-wide alongside new affordable 32 and 34-inch displays. Alienware has made some of our favorite OLED monitors in recent years. But at Computex, the company revealed a new high-end option that it says is the "most ambitious display" it's ever made.

17,000-year-old stripes of red in a Welsh cave are the oldest rock art in the UK, study finds

17,000-year-old stripes of red in a Welsh cave are the oldest rock art in the UK, study finds Over a century after a red-lined cave wall was discovered, scientists have determined that it represents the U.K.'s oldest rock art. For a century, experts dismissed a series of parallel red lines discovered in a Welsh cave as a phenomenon of nature rather than human-made rock art. But a new study shows the lines are a rare example of Paleolithic art — and at 17,000 years old, they're the earliest...

Jack White review – former White Stripe’s art is like a 12-year-old visiting Tate Modern for the first time

Newport Street Gallery, LondonWhite may be a talented musician but as a visual artist, he’s a nonstarter. Not even the collaborations with Ai Weiwei and Damien Hirst can save this showNobody can phone it in like a famous conceptual artist. Invited to customise one of rock star Jack White’s amplifiers, Ai Weiwei has inscribed the F-word in buttons of various sizes and colours across its front.

Jack White review – former White Stripe’s art is like a 12-year-old visiting Tate Modern for the first time

Newport Street Gallery, LondonWhite may be a talented musician but as a visual artist, he’s a nonstarter. Not even the collaborations with Ai Weiwei and Damien Hirst can save this showNobody can phone it in like a famous conceptual artist. Invited to customise one of rock star Jack White’s amplifiers, Ai Weiwei has inscribed the F-word in buttons of various sizes and colours across its front.

Striped rock dismissed as natural in 1928 reclassified as UK’s oldest cave art

Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock artIn 1912, the Guardian reported on the discovery of Palaeolithic rock art on the walls of Bacon Hole, a cave near the Mumbles in south Wales – only for the painted panel’s authenticity to be dismissed by 1928.A series of horizontal bands in red pigment were subsequently deemed no more than a natural phenomenon and the newspaper added an updated statement: “It was later established...

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Striped rock dismissed as natural in 1928 reclassified as UK’s oldest cave art

Scientific dating proves streaks on walls of Bacon Hole, near the Mumbles in south Wales, is Palaeolithic rock artIn 1912, the Guardian reported on the discovery of Palaeolithic rock art on the walls of Bacon Hole, a cave near the Mumbles in south Wales – only for the painted panel’s authenticity to be dismissed by 1928.A series of horizontal bands in red pigment were subsequently deemed no more than a natural phenomenon and the newspaper added an updated statement: “It was later established...