A new breed of supermarkets means the days of queues, checkouts and shoplifting are numbered. But what else will we lose when no-transaction shopping becomes the norm? Welcome to the supermarkets of the future. They may look and feel like the supermarkets we are all used to – and stock the same bread, butter and …
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Does the advent of machine learning mean the classic methodology of hypothesise, predict and test has had its day? Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a fundamental relationship between force, mass …
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Record sales and now news of a battery that lasts hundreds of miles. It’s getting better, but going green was tough, admits a reluctant pioneer This time last year my partner John and I celebrated purchasing an electric car by driving through London to see the Christmas lights without having to pay congestion or Ulez …
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Critics attacked Don’t Look Up for being over the top. But the mania for NFTs shows how on-the-money the movie is On 24 December, the movie Don’t Look Up began streaming on Netflix following a limited release in cinemas. It’s a satirical story, directed by Adam McKay, about what happens when a lowly PhD student …
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The mathematician and Countdown presenter on Caribbean comfort food, a podcast for millennials and her owl-shaped bestie Born and raised in east London, the mathematician Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, 31, was announced last month as a new presenter on Countdown, covering Rachel Riley’s maternity leave. A child prodigy, Imafidon passed two GCSEs at primary school and …
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The reality show about the LA collective of TikTok stars is a bleak portrait of the relentless, inarticulable job of being oneself online The Hype House, a collective of some of TikTok’s most famous stars in the hills north-west of Los Angeles, appears to be a very lonely place even with somewhere around 10 residents …
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Angela Underwood claims Facebook ‘knowingly promoted inflammatory and violent content and connected extremists’ The sister of a security officer who was murdered in Oakland in 2020 is suing Facebook, alleging that the tech company played a part in radicalizing the two men accused of killing him. David Patrick Underwood was fatally shot and his partner …
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Our tendency towards rosy recollections of the past has been amplified in recent times, from photos on social media to retro video games I’ve always been susceptible to bouts of nostalgia. Defined as “sentimental longing for the past”, nostalgia was originally identified as an emotion afflicting people who were separated from their homeland – a …
Figure represents a 570% increase on previous year, and was 1,447 times the average Apple employee’s pay Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, was paid nearly $100m (£74m) last year, a 570% increase on the previous year, according to regulatory filings. Cook, 61, who took over as chief executive from the Apple founder Steve Jobs in …
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Mobile phone, TV, carmakers and other major players tout what’s new at the annual Las Vegas tech showcase From colour-shifting cars to digital art TVs and stress-predicting watches, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opened on Wednesday, offered its usual mix of wacky, visionary and desirable goods. Here are some of the …
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