Ministers meet NI loyalist paramilitaries as they seek to solve post-Brexit border problems

Ministers meet loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland as they seek to solve post-Brexit border problems that have sparked violence The Cabinet ministers met a delegation from the Loyalist Communities Council Came amid continued disputes over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit border Brexit deal left NI tied to a range of EU customs and regulatory rules  It sparked … Read more

Is a Jaffa Cake a biscuit? Physicist uses AI to solve debate

A physicist has used the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the age-old debate about whether Jaffa Cakes are biscuits or cakes.  Dr. Héloïse Stevance, an astrophysicist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, trained algorithms with nearly 100 recipes of traditional cakes and biscuits.  She then ran two Jaffa Cakes recipes through the algorithms, which … Read more

‘Cake without a doubt’: Physicist uses AI to solve Jaffa Cakes debate

A physicist has used the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the age-old debate about whether Jaffa Cakes are biscuits or cakes.  Dr. Héloïse Stevance, an astrophysicist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, trained algorithms with nearly 100 recipes of traditional cakes and biscuits.  She then ran two Jaffa Cakes recipes through the algorithms, which … Read more

GCHQ sets fiendish quiz to mark launch of Alan Turing £50 note which could take SEVEN HOURS to solve

Spy harder: GCHQ sets fiendish quiz to mark the launch of Alan Turing £50 note… but experts say it could take you SEVEN HOURS to solve the riddle Britain’s spy centre GCHQ devised a quiz to celebrate the new Turing £50 note The note itself contains coded references to the mathematician and his life The … Read more

GCHQ sets fiendish quiz to mark launch of Alan Turing £50 note which could take SEVEN HOURS to solve

Spy harder: GCHQ sets fiendish quiz to mark the launch of Alan Turing £50 note… but experts say it could take you SEVEN HOURS to solve the riddle Britain’s spy centre GCHQ devised a quiz to celebrate the new Turing £50 note The note itself contains coded references to the mathematician and his life The … Read more

City of Lies trailer follows Johnny Depp as he tries to solve the murders of Tupac and Biggie

Johnny Depp delves into the mystery behind the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. in the new trailer for City of Lies. Depp filmed the movie back in 2017, with the first trailer released back in May 2018, though the film was pulled from its release, reportedly due to a lawsuit filed against Depp … Read more

Facebook is considering adding facial-recognition to smart glasses but wants to solve privacy issues

Facebook is looking at adding facial recognition to its highly anticipated smart glasses that are planned to hit the market next year. At an all-staff meeting, Facebook Reality Labs director Andrew Bosworth said the company was examining the technology’s legal and privacy ramifications, BuzzFeed reports. He cautioned the benefits and risks were obvious, ‘and we … Read more

Can credit unions really solve Britain’s high cost credit shortage?

A company which began life in 1985 as a way for serving police officers to pool their Christmas savings might not sound like the ideal recipient a £200,000 prize aimed at developing a new generation of fintech lenders. Yet that is exactly what happened to Police Credit Union last March. The member owned co-operative, which … Read more

‘Build a second Venice’: Holograms and AR could solve over-crowding in tourist hotspots

Tourist hotspots like the canals of Venice and the Louvre in Paris should be digitally replicated as a way to tackle overcrowding, a Swiss economist says. Bruno Frey, 79, a professor at the University of Basel, has written a book called Venedig ist uberall (Venice is Everywhere). In it, he says technologies like holograms, augmented reality … Read more