22 minutes ago How to make AI playlists on Spotify: Hidden feature knows your music taste better than you do

It really is as easy as typing a few words into a text box and letting Spotify’s machine-learning model do the rest

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27 minutes ago UK car production falls for the eighth month after slow take up of electric vehicles and looming fines

The poor figures come as car makers warn forthcoming fines for producing too many petrol and diesel cars could lead to more factory closures

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27 minutes ago What is net migration? And what are the latest UK figures for people arriving

Net migration is the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving the country.

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29 minutes ago Everton owner Moshiri makes pledge over £451m debt if takeover drags on

Debt would be converted into shares to avoid paymentMoshiri committed to waiving debt in Friedkin dealFarhad Moshiri has agreed to convert his £451m loan to Everton into shares if the club has not been sold by the time new Premier League regulations on shareholder loans come into force.The Everton owner has committed to waiving the huge debt on completion of his planned sale to the Friedkin Group, and will covert it to equity if it appears that will not happen before 11 January. From that date shareholder loans will become subject to a fair market value test by the league after last week’s vote on associated party transaction rules to which opposition was led by Manchester City. Continue reading...

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37 minutes ago Home explosion as 'front of house blown off' and three people rushed to hospital

Emergency services were called to reports of an explosion in a property in Bootle, Liverpool, with horrified neighbours reporting that the front of a house was 'blown off'

Society

40 minutes ago MasterChef contestant shares cryptic social media post after Greg Wallace steps down amid sexual misconduct probe

Thirteen people, including Kirsty Wark, have complained about Wallace's conduct while working with him over a 17-year period across five shows, from 2005 to 2022.

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48 minutes ago UK media twice as likely to portray young people negatively than positively, report finds

Exclusive: Under-25s ‘bombarded’ with media coverage portraying them as victims, lazy, weak and unpatriotic, analysis finds

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48 minutes ago ‘I’m emotionally ruined’: MPs left bitterly divided over assisted dying bill

Unlikely alliances and concerns over vulnerable people’s rights have led to fierce debate and ethical uncertaintyWhen Kim Leadbeater came top of the ballot of private members’ bills, she did not immediately decide to attempt a generational change in the way the British state handles life and death. But, she says, it was an opportunity that rarely comes for a backbench MP.The past few months campaigning for her bill to legalise assisted dying have exhausted her. It has been a licence for everyone she meets – in parliament, in the street, everywhere in her life – to tell harrowing stories. Continue reading...

Events

48 minutes ago ‘Emotionally daunting’: Thanksgiving feels different for those affected by Hurricane Helene

After recent hurricanes devastated US south-east, some look to community as food and water remain in low supplyTucker Shelton grew up in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and then studied and taught yoga around the world – Italy, New Zealand, Thailand – which made him realize there was something special about life in the Blue Ridge Mountains.“Being here feels like I’m being hugged by the trees and the mountains,” Shelton, 36, said. “People care about the town, the area they live in.” Continue reading...

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48 minutes ago ‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property

In the suburb of Oosterwold, a living experiment in urban agriculture, the 5,000 inhabitants find different creative ways to fulfil the unique stipulationWhen Marco de Kat starts planning his meals, he doesn’t need to travel far for fresh food. Right outside his house is an 800 square metre plot with all sorts of produce – apples, pears, peppers, basil, beets and cauliflower, to name a few. During the winter months, he and his wife can pretty much survive off the vegetables stored in their freezer. Even after living in Oosterwold for a number of years, it’s something that still excites him.“Yesterday, I forgot to think about what to eat,” he says. “You walk through your garden and you find something and that’s what you eat.” Continue reading...

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