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Kyiv is claiming Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic rocket into Ukraine, but that’s reportedly being disputed by US officials.

We’re joined by The London Standard’s defence exertion Robert Fox connected ICBMs, Moscow’s subject strategy and aboriginal risk.

Will Google beryllium forced to merchantability Chrome?

Plus, what is ‘sound symbolism’ and wherefore is it important, with Marcus Perlman, subordinate prof successful linguistics and connection astatine the University of Birmingham.

I'm Rachelle Abbott, and this is The Standard's Tech and Science Daily podcast.

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Coming up, volition Google beryllium forced to merchantability Chrome?

But first, Kyiv is claiming Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic rocket into Ukraine, but that's reportedly being disputed by US officials.

A elder US authoritative told The New York Times the limb appeared to beryllium an intermediate scope ballistic missile, adding, But it is simply a caller benignant we person been tracking.

The Kremlin besides told reporters it had thing to accidental astir the hardware utilized successful the strike.

It's not a abbreviated scope rocket oregon mean scope rocket similar Storm Shadow and the ATACMS, the service rocket of the US, which is being fired astir the Kursk country astatine the moment.

It is successful effect to that.

It is precise important successful that this weapon, immoderate it was, undoubtedly, is usually utilized successful the bid of conflict for atomic warfare.

And it's a happening that you would usage to motorboat implicit a 1000 kilometers, implicit a 1000 miles with a atomic warhead.

That's The London Standard's defence editor, Robert Fox.

Putin lowered the threshold for utilizing atomic weapons aft President Joe Biden gave Ukraine support to occurrence US ATACMS agelong scope missiles into Russia.

Russia has shown that it is funny and susceptible of disrupting supplies of information, underwater cables, perchance nutrient supplies, surely vigor supplies.

Have we each forgotten astir the Houthis, who are going connected gangbusters with this, with Iranian and down them Russian technology?

We are successful a contention and it does necessitate a implicit re-address and levelling with the nationalist astir what the information risks are and the resilience, that is however you tin lend by supporting nationalist services, being alert of the dangers, the cyber attacks which tin pb to outages.

We've had these mysterious fires successful Britain and the Allies.

We've had the Russian survey ships surveying array points successful and crossed the Irish Sea and crossed the English Channel.

This is wherever we've got to up the game.

To perceive the afloat report, Robert Fox joins Mark Blunden connected The Standard podcast from 4pm today.

The US prosecutors accidental Google indispensable merchantability the Chrome browser to reconstruct contention successful the online hunt market.

Google is believed to power astir 90% of the online hunt market, with astir 95% connected smartphones.

The DoJ and a conjugation of states privation Google to extremity agreements with tech firms specified arsenic Apple.

If the lawsuit is successfully won, the hunt level volition beryllium highly regulated for 10 years.

It's believed Google volition entreaty the case.

What bash you deliberation should happen?

Let america cognize successful the comments.

Next, caller probe has recovered 1 of the strongest cases ever documented of dependable symbolism.

That's a nonstop nexus betwixt code sounds and meaning.

The modular mentation successful linguistics is that the narration betwixt the signifier of a word, the sounds of a connection and its meaning that that narration is arbitrary.

Any signifier tin beryllium connected with immoderate meaning and there's nary resemblance betwixt signifier and meaning.

Sound symbolism is the objection to this regularisation and possibly the large exception, wherever the sounds of code really convey meaning successful themselves, that they someway picture oregon lucifer the meaning that they express.

That's Marcus Perlman, Associate Professor successful Linguistics and Communication astatine the University of Birmingham.

He explains however their research, present published successful the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, has shown that code sounds person texture and signifier to them, specified arsenic the missive R, which has been described arsenic rough.

People astir the world, nary substance what connection they speak, the immense bulk of radical person a beardown intuition that a trilled R sound, the dependable you mightiness perceive successful Spanish oregon Italian, similar successful the Spanish connection for dog, Pedro, that that trilled R sound, it sounds unsmooth to them.

And truthful erstwhile you inquire them to subordinate that dependable with a jagged enactment oregon a consecutive creaseless line, the immense bulk of radical subordinate that dependable with the jagged line.

And conversely, an L sound, an O sound, they subordinate with the creaseless oregon consecutive line.

The researchers conducted their survey done online and tract experiments involving 1,030 adults who spoke a full of 28 antithetic languages.

The survey originated with a erstwhile survey that we published a mates of years ago, wherever we recovered successful antithetic analyses that successful vocabulary, successful spoken languages crossed the world, astir the world, that words that are utilized to notation to unsmooth textures person a overmuch higher preponderance of R sounds successful those words than you would expect by chance.

So words for unsmooth often person an R sound, and if you look crossed languages, it seems driven particularly by trilled R sounds, truthful that's successful earthy vocabulary.

This was an experimental objection that radical person a consciousness of, the crushed that signifier exists successful spoken languages and successful vocabularies is due to the fact that radical spot a perceptual resemblance betwixt that sound, that code sound, and the texture oregon signifier of the line.

Coming up successful portion two, Microsoft has begun opening up Xbox Cloud Gaming.

We'll spot you backmost present successful conscionable a minute.

Inspector Gadget dependable actor, Dan Hennessey, has died aged 82 pursuing a Parkinson's battle.

His household person confirmed.

Hennessey is good known for playing Chief Quimby successful Inspector Gadget, but besides Care Bear quality Braveheart Lion.

Throughout his career, helium besides lent his dependable to George Raccoon connected the Raccoons, X-Men the animated series, and Star Wars animated spinoff, Ewoks, positive galore more.

The household person requested donations successful his representation to beryllium made successful his sanction to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research.

Now, frustrated with recommended posts connected Instagram?

Well, arsenic portion of a test, the tract volition beryllium letting immoderate users wholly commencement afresh connected the app and reset.

Users volition beryllium capable to commencement arsenic though they're connected a marque caller relationship by removing each that Instagram presently uses to urge posts and different contented seen connected the platform.

Parent Company Meta says the thought is to springiness users caller ways to signifier their Instagram experience.

This comes amid concerns that algorithms could beryllium directing users towards unhealthy oregon antagonistic content.

Next, Microsoft has begun opening up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox crippled libraries.

If you're a subscriber to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you tin present watercourse 50 games that you already own.

That includes Final Fantasy titles.

Games are disposable done TV, smartphone, tablet and PC.

And finally, an alien-like carnal has been spotted crawling on a formation successful Sussex.

Fear not, this isn't thing from space.

It's really been described arsenic a oversea rodent by Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Conservationists.

Rye Harbour Events Officer Sarah Watson described the rodent arsenic a furry carnal and fundamentally a chunky marine worm.

A oversea rodent is 15 centimetres agelong and seldom seen, but successful winter, storms tin lavation them up connected the precocious tide line.

Conservationists did instrumentality the carnal backmost to sea.

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