A Scottish grandmother received an obscene and insulting message thanks to a complete fail by Apple's voice transcription. It completely misunderstood a voicemail left by a local car dealership.

The call was made to Louise Littlejohn by a worker at the garage who intended to invite her to a promotional event for a new car. The call went to voicemail so he left a message. Apple then "transcribed" the call with an AI-powered system and delivered a text message, something that's meant to save users time rather than have to listen to the message.

.... AI Translates with Insulting Message
Unfortunately the message Littlejohn received was very different, not only bearing little relationship to the actual wording, but including some unfortunate wording:

"Lots of [redacted] CT from work line over line trail of you will just be told to see if you have received an invite on your car if you've been able to have s@x and not what should we call and just keep trouble with yourself that'd be interesting you piece of sh!t give me a call [redacted] customer [redacted] will have to help us thank you."

He is watching classic Doctor Who.

Lisa Davis and her grandkids were walking home from an Easter egg hunt on Sunday when the manhole exploded mere seconds after they walked by, sending debris and pieces of concrete flying through the air.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God,’; I didn’t know where to go,” Davis told ABC 7 of coming “one foot [from] losing my family.”

Davis and her 6-year-old grandson can be seen running as she pushes her younger grandchild in a stroller, with the explosion barely missing them.

“I didn’t know what to do except grab my grandson and run,” she said.

“I couldn’t really run straight ahead of me to the corner because the manhole at the next corner blew up too,” she said.....

It's a birdwatcher's paradise, a 10-acre plot of tranquillity that Kenn Parker calls home.

In this isolated patch of rainforest on the doorstep of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in northern Queensland, he lives a quiet life observing the natural world around him.

"There's never a dull moment. There is always something happening," Mr Parker says, as he sits on the verandah of a purposefully built bird-watching hut.

"One minute it might be a cassowary or a bandicoot, or a wallaby or a snake. They just keep coming and I love them."

But of all his forest neighbours, the most intriguing are the cassowaries — often deemed the most dangerous birds in the world due to their razor sharp claws and powerful legs......

Three brothers from Cheshire have driven all the way from Land's End to John O' Groats in a tiny bus built in the 1940s for seaside children's rides.

James, Andrew and Will Emerton took it in turns to drive the miniature petrol-powered bus, which is about 1m (3ft) tall and 2.5m (8ft) long.

The bus can travel at 20-25mph but averaged 12mph during the trip. It took the brothers a week to arrive at their destination.

They have been raising money for the MPS Society, The Children's Society and Hope House Children's Hospice.