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...For over two decades the Georgian townhouses of Mayfair were home to GLG Partners....
...Is ordering from a smiling avatar of Ronald McDonald any less “real” than interacting with the forced smiles of an underpaid and overworked service worker?...
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
....” ————————- Read more Meet the seven robots you need to know Robot writer v human journalist: see the face-off at the FT How has the robot economy triggered a global investment explosion?...
...The 32-inch television screen is bigger than the one I have at home....
...Only mine’s broke down,” once sang Gary Numan about a prostitute service robot of the future....
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
...Robotic assistants, driverless cars, connected homes, digital public services, laboratory-grown meat, augmented reality and electric-powered vehicles are just a few of the futuristic technologies elbowing...
...Creation: The Origin of Life/The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford, Viking, RRP£20 In a book of two contrasting halves, Rutherford tells us how life might have started on the young Earth and then – leaping...
...After buying a digital watch at a Japanese airport on the way home from a business trip – it boasted a radio and an earpiece on the end of a strand of wire – he had lost the instruction booklet....
...Linda Lay’s public defence in 2002 of her husband Ken, the former chief executive of Enron – she called him a “moral human being” and said that they had lost millions of dollars too – was widely held to...
...And in India, there is more demand for more money, because of the increase in cost of living there,” says K.V....
...We believe skills can be trained,” explains Coleman Chui, the local Four Seasons human resources director....
...However, the return on investment for speech applications is normally quite short and easy to measure, especially where they are replacing humans in a call centre or freeing humans to concentrate on less...
...Computer’s first mouse and the Palm V handheld computer....
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