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...The freedom to tinker with such a powerful AI has already sparked new start-up ideas for countless investors and entrepreneurs....
...Eden by Paul Harding (Hutchinson Heinemann/WW Norton) A novel inspired by historical events, and centred on an island of castaways located off the US mainland, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers...
...Tinker, tailor, zoomer, spy?...
...tim.harford@ft.com Tim Harford interviewed Rutger Bregman this week as part of a new online events series, Books with the FT Letter in response to this article: Tearing up the scripts handed to us can...
...In the past he’s said he’s not sure what he believes in from one day to the next (“God or Santa Claus or Tinker Bell”)....
...“Other clubs are closing the gap on Manchester United,” said Tim Crow, an independent sports marketing adviser....
...Tim Bradshaw has the details....
...Follow Tim on Twitter @TimHayward or email him at tim.hayward@ft.com...
...“I’ve realised there’s nothing much you can do; you can tinker but there’s nothing you can do,” he says. He gave up one of his enthusiasms, wine, in 2014....
...The dumbbell economy Tim Harford’s guide to dubious statistics Britons aren’t as keen on free trade as politicians might think Bulls, bears and . . . sloths?...
...For Duflo, plumbing is even more practical than engineering: not only must the plumber install the system, she must observe and tinker with it as leaks and blockages become apparent....
...People were beginning to figure out new ways to use computers and, in August 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted his code for the world wide web on the internet so that others could download it and start to tinker...
...But Tim Massad, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the US derivatives regulator, sought to calm fears of regulatory harmonisation going into reverse....
...That could change if the Kremlin decides to tinker with taxes to raise more money from the sector, as is widely expected and feared by oil executives....
...BB-8 also features in the first part of Tim Bradshaw’s holiday gift guide....
...But if there is one thing truck owners here in the US like to do, it’s tinker around with the engine....
...“Rush is an experiment that we’re rolling out from the Uber Garage – our workshop of sorts where we tinker with new ideas for urban logistics,” its blogpost says....
...The technology retailer has had a difficult few years but found a niche in selling componentry to “makers” who like to tinker in their garages at the weekend....
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...Heygate’s architect, Tim Tinker, designed the estate around four large, long mid-rise blocks that hem in several smaller maisonette blocks....
...Together with Tim Wong, AHL’s chairman, Mr Rattray aims to repurpose AHL as a market leader in quantitative hedge fund research and development far beyond its current single-fund focus....
...Open-source software, in which anyone who uses the technology can download the source code and tinker with it, is a prime example....
...“If you retrospectively go back and tinker with how Libor is calculated, you’ve moved the goalposts of the commercial deal.”...
...Translation: Sir Tim Bell (70) and his leading partner in crime, Piers Pottinger, have had enough of listed-company life....
...Enon , by Paul Harding, Heinemann, RRP£14.99/Random House, RRP$26 Harding won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize with his debut novel, Tinkers, but is not as well-known as he should be....
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