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US tourist breaks her back in head-on Bay of Plenty campervan crash
Another US tourist was charged after the harrowing Bay of Plenty crash on May 10.

Facebook marketplace scammers: Father cautions bargain hunters after being duped
Duped dad wants banks and police to pursue more scammers on Facebook Marketplace.

Legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado dies at 82
He was known for dramatic and unflinching black-and-white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty.

The galaxy of the Star Wars universe stretches to infinity
The end to spin off stories from 1977's first Star Wars movie looks like being a galaxy far, far away

Blueberry waste turned into sustainable trays by Scion and Rotorua’s Mamaku Blue
Scion and Mamaku Blue are developing sustainable fibre trays for blueberries.

Acer’s OLED gaming laptop with RTX 4060 just dropped to its best price
Stop the presses because we just found the Acer Swift X 14 laptop for $400 off on Amazon! This powerful gaming laptop packs some mean guts, and right now you can get it for $1,100. You won’t be balking at that price when you see what this laptop brings to the table. For starters, this thing has a 14.5-inch OLED screen with a gorgeous 2880×1800 resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate powered by an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card. You’ll get to enjoy an upper-tier portable gaming experience with vivid colors and deep blacks at high frame rates with the latest 3D games. Then there’s the speedy performance of this laptop. With an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor and 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, it won’t falter when running Windows 11 with whatever apps you need. The 1TB SSD is also spacious enough for all your pics, videos, and files, while being fast enough for quick system boots, app launches, and file transfers. Snap this gaming laptop up for $1,100 on Amazon while this deal is still around because this is one you’ll have tons of fun with! Save $400 on this OLED gaming laptop with RTX 4060Buy now at Amazon

Formula 1: Liam Lawson fastest Red Bull car in Monaco practice, logs fifth-fastest time
The Kiwi impressed on the opening day on the streets of Monte Carlo.

Herald NOW: A new way to watch news
The new video streaming show will be available on the NZ Herald website and YouTube.

Herald morning quiz: May 24
Test your brains with the Herald's morning quiz.

Rotorua finally shrugs off polluted air status
For the first time in twenty years, residents can wake up and officially breath in clean air.

Strong wool revival: Floc’s acoustic panels gain traction in design industry
Floc panels, made in Christchurch, adhere like wallpaper, with natural adhesive.

Anthropic’s newest Claude AI models are experts at programming
Yesterday in an announcement blog post, AI company Anthropic unveiled Claude 4, its new generation of AI models consisting of Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet with a range of new abilities. Both Claude 4 models are hybrid models, which means they’re capable of giving you short-and-quick answers or thinking longer on their responses with deeper reasoning. They’re also better at following your instructions more precisely and using different tools in parallel. Anthropic Claude 4 Opus is excellent at solving complex problems and at programming. In fact, according to Anthropic, it’s the world’s best AI model for programming. The model can maintain its performance in long tasks over several hours with thousands of different steps. Meanwhile, Anthropic says Claude 4 Sonnet is a huge upgrade over Claude 3.7 Sonnet’s abilities. The newer Claude 4 Sonnet is still good at coding, but not as good as Claude 4 Opus; instead, Sonnet has a better balance between skill and practicality. Claude 4 Sonnet will be available for free, but if you want to access Claude 4 Opus, you’ll have to pay for one of Anthropic’s subscriptions.