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...The state-backed powerful China National Tobacco Corp enjoys a tight monopoly over the $235bn sector, and weaning China’s 300mn smokers off cigarettes — beneficial to common prosperity as that may be — would...
...The Odyssey will be available in August from $1,399....
...ARCC’s shares have fallen 43 per cent since the beginning of the year....
...Thus, Dyson also takes us on an odyssey of discovery. Analogia encapsulates many tales....
...The year 2001 came and went without the promised “space odyssey”, but it was significant for space flight in a less obvious way....
Kubrick show and near-future sci-fi, Microsoft joins $1tn club, Facebook feels fine
...That is a tantalising prospect for developers such as Ubisoft, whose titles Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Just Dance 2020 are among Stadia’s launch catalogue....
...But the streamed version of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey suggests the future has already arrived....
...Iliad’s odyssey tests investor patience Investors are losing patience with French telecoms operator Iliad....
Start-up believes that data it gathers on ways people use space will give it an edge
...The coming weeks should see strong contributions from the just-released blockbusters Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Red Dead Redemption 2....
...The computer was represented on stage by a smooth female voice spoken by a slim black slab, like a mini obelisk from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey....
...Peter Walker’s dance odyssey began before the curtain rose — with a light show just stadium-rock enough to make you want to giggle, then cheer....
...The French word for a wind turbine is “éolienne”, from Aeolus, the mythological keeper of the winds in Homer’s Odyssey, who first tries to help and then turns against Odysseus....
...Everyone would seem to include Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp bought Unruly for £114m in 2015....
...The camera — described by one technology website as looking like a cross between “a 2001: A Space Odyssey prop and a cyberpunk sperm” — was introduced as virtual reality became the hottest trend in technology...
...Death or injury by robot is very rare, and has more to do with industrial tools malfunctioning than intelligence rivalling the murderous Hal 9000 supercomputer in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...Instead of “Open the pod bay doors, Hal” — the famous line spoken to a computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey — it could be a case of: “Hal, could you ask Cortana to wake up Alexa and see if she can find a door-opening...
...Nintendo’s Switch, which has aimed for a different audience with its unique combination of handheld and TV-based play, will be boosted by the arrival of Super Mario Odyssey in November....
...A number of smaller investment companies demonstrated much higher levels of skin in the game, including Dodge & Cox, Oakmark and Primecap Odyssey....
...Human-sounding AI machines like Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the avatar with sex appeal in Her, about a love affair with a Siri-like assistant, have made the idea of an all-knowing digital aide seem...
...Later, he touts his “flint-eyed diligence” and says we would all be better off if only the rest of the press corps was equally sharp....
...He declined to design Kubrick’s epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, returning to craft the increasingly absurd Bond films....
Canadian pension funds buy risk consultancy from Charterhouse
...It is not just a case of being able to talk to a machine and get a direct answer, a feature that first caught the public imagination with Apple’s Siri (and, before that, Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey)....
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