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...Frank Herbert’s Dune, thanks to the recent film versions, continues to ascend in price. (Last autumn, a rare storyboard for Dune sold for £350,000 at Peter Harrington.)...
...executives leading the AI race that has transfixed the tech industry, including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, met at the White House on Thursday for what a senior US official described as a “frank...
...One powerful argument explaining how to seize back “the means of computation” is made by Cory Doctorow in his latest book The Internet Con....
...All that said, Bell is right that western critics of China are often ignorant of the pros and cons of China’s system....
...Wilson is funny and frank; she answers questions with the mix of sharp intelligence and candour that has made her such a charismatic actor. Risk appears to be a magnet....
...The refinancing decision now involves balancing the pros and cons of fixed and floating rates and the impact of fees....
...My next dish is an exceptional plate of squid croquettes, which my waiter suggests consuming with a glass of 2018 Con Viento Fresco....
...Cue the CIA with a mission for the actor, events demanding the crazed persona of shoot-em-ups like Con Air step into “real life”....
...To be frank, I wouldn’t blame them. Indeed, I think it would be for the good of younger employees....
...Lloyd delivers a damning verdict on the music industry while fans including Paul Morley and Frank Skinner sing his praises. On Sky Arts and Now...
...The pandemic brought a reassessment of property needs up and down the price spectrum in Europe, prompting a rush for homes with outside space and the mod cons to support long stays....
...My children were thrilled to be put up in “Frank”, with its two canopy beds lined in striped silk and secret TV cabinet....
...As far as I’m concerned, Frank is just like me. He looks like me, he doesn’t always tell the truth . . . ” I ask Walken whether he thinks of himself as a bit of a con artist. “I don’t know....
...He refers to the tech immigrants as arroz con manbros. (In Cuba, arroz con mango is slang for “clusterfuck”.)...
...After weighing up the pros and cons of future working patterns, Dropbox decided against the hybrid model — when the working week is split between the office and home....
...Suzie’s trip to a comic con in Birmingham brings more angst, along with a staggeringly louche turn from Dexter Fletcher as a shagged-out fellow thesp....
...Make your decisions as you take in the schmaltzy soundtrack of Frank Sinatra and Perry Como....
...Other policies include a relaunched regional growth fund — a flagship policy of the Con-Lib coalition — and investment in new east-west rail connections in the north and Midlands....
...And the play continues with this frank, funny approach as the couple feel their way through the pros and cons....
...International buyers often request serviced apartments in the city centre with high-end mod-cons, says Redfern-Woods....
...The book’s subtitle is: “A genius, a con man and the secret history of the internet’s rise”....
...The finance ministry did not “order” the two banks to merge — “they simply pressed them to seriously evaluate the pros and cons of such a deal, and to keep an open mind,” he said....
...“They try and con me and then six of them turn up with cameras,” Garbett says. The house is full of whitewashed walls and elegant dark wooden furnishings....
...Little Pipe Cay, a 38-acre island in the Exumas archipelago of the Bahamas, was bought after its previous owners “weighed up the pros and cons of buying a superyacht or a private island....
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