Hospitality businesses look to hi-tech gadgets amid staff shortages after Covid pandemic and Brexit As worker shortages are felt across the hospitality sector, the owners of the Bella Italia chain are turning to robots to provide table service to customers. Big Table Group, which also owns Café Rouge and Las Iguanas, is testing out the …
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From music on the go to GPS watches and apps such as Strava, tech to help you clock up the miles Running is a great way to keep fit this summer and needs little more than some trainers and a pavement or a park. But even the most enthusiastic of us need some way to …
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Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child The suspension of a Google engineer who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being has put new scrutiny on the capacity of, and …
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Kamal Gandhi, 70, and his Coventry chip shop became a sensation after its name was turned into a catchy song It has been two weeks since his Coventry chip shop became a TikTok sensation drawing in crowds from around the country, and 70-year-old Kamal Gandhi is exhausted. He has had to take on and train …
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The desire to meet a new partner remains undimmed. But they might be more easily found at a film club than on a phone screen It all started a year ago when, having been divorced for a while, I thought I might dip a toe in the dating world. I wasn’t thrilled by the idea …
Future EV designs offer drivers more space and leisure, with fewer parts making production more sustainable Take any petrol car sold today and show it to a mechanic working on a Ford Model T 100 years ago and there is a fairly good chance they would understand roughly how it works. An internal combustion engine …
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The street photographer was in the right place at the right time to capture this beachside scene If you look closely under the red umbrella at the centre of this photo, you’ll see four distant feet. The anonymous duo they belong to had just taken off on a parasailing trip above the sea at Nice …
Airbnb and its competitors have made tourism a year-round prospect in many places, but locals say that locks them out of the rental market Tourism is the lifeblood of Kangaroo Valley. Travellers flock to the lush greenery of the New South Wales town for the trails, rivers and wineries. It also hosts folk and arts …
Tower Vaults, LondonA thrilling live adventure is marred by moments of bewildering VR in this immersive voyage back to 1605 It may set Harry Potter fans’ hearts aflutter to know that Tom Felton – best known as Draco Malfo – is playing Guy Fawkes in this immersive experience written by Danny Robins and directed by …
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‘Effective duopoly’ holds back Britain’s tech sector and restricts customer choice, says CMA The UK competition watchdog is considering launching an investigation into Apple and Google’s dominance of the mobile browser market after finding the tech companies have a “stranglehold” on a range of areas including app stores. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) indicated …
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