46 m. ago Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’

Researcher says tech could replace nearly all human labour within 20 years and societies urgently need to prepareIf Adam Dorr is correct, robots and artificial intelligence will dominate the global economy within a generation and put virtually the entire human race out of a job. The social scientist doubles up as a futurist and has a stark vision of the scale, speed and unstoppability of a technological transformation that he says will replace virtually all human labour within 20 years.Dorr heads a team of researchers who have studied patterns of technological change over millennia and concluded that the current wave will not just convulse but obliterate the labour market by 2045. What cars did to horses and carts, and electricity to gas lamps, and digital cameras to Kodak, are templates for the coming shock, he says. “Technology has a new target in its crosshairs – and that’s us. That’s our labour.” Continue reading...

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47 m. ago Climate change blamed as deaths during recent heatwaves tripled

Human-driven global warming was responsible for around 65 per cent of deaths across 12 European cities, studies say

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47 m. ago Climate change tripled deaths in European cities during recent heatwaves – study

Scientists warn heatwaves are ‘quietly devastating’ and show how dangerous climate change already is with 1.3C of global warming.

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3 h. ago LAURA CRAIK's fashion verdict: Naomi Campbell channels Elvis Presley as supermodel hits Chanel's Haute Couture show in Paris with striking quiff

It was a striking look for the Streatham-born supermodel, 55, adding extra inches to her 5ft 10in and lending a retro feel to her Chanel tweed jacket and boot-cut trousers.

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4 h. ago Australian government ‘urgently seeking more detail’ after Trump flags 200% tariffs on foreign pharmaceuticals

Global trade tensions linked to unpredictable and expanding US levy regime a ‘substantial concern’, Jim Chalmers saysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLabor is making urgent representations to the White House about Donald Trump’s threat to impose 200% tariffs on drug imports to the US, an announcement Jim Chalmers says is very concerning for the Australian economy.The US president said on Wednesday that the punishing new border levies would come with a transition period that could last more at least a year, after sustained pressure from the US pharmaceutical industry over price controls on common drugs in countries like Australia.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Former London Home of an Arsenal Football Chairman Sells for £22M

Former London Home of an Arsenal Football Chairman Sells for £22M  Mansion Global

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11 h. ago ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women

Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanityThe international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution of women and girls.In a statement, the ICC said on Tuesday there were “reasonable grounds to believe” the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and Afghanistan’s chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, had ordered policies that deprived women and girls of “education, privacy and family life and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion”. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago ITV This Morning presenter nearly falls overboard during live report from boat in Greece

A This Morning guest presenter almost fell overboard whilst reporting live on air from a boat in Greece.

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12 h. ago The Salt Path is a box office hit. Will its takings – and its Oscar hopes – now fall off a cliff?

The film adaptation of Winn’s book, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, quickly became the third most successful UK movie of the year. What happens now?On paper it has everything. A redemption-arc narrative about overcoming homelessness, adversity and illness. Two late-middle age lead characters that would appeal to the key silver-pound cinema-going demographic, as well as providing plum roles for top-notch British actors. A backdrop of glorious south coast scenery, as experienced through that most modish of contemporary activities: hiking.No wonder film-makers were champing at the bit to make a movie out of The Salt Path, the memoir by Raynor Winn published in 2018 – and so one duly emerged, starring Gillian Anderson as Winn and Jason Isaacs as her husband Moth, who was diagnosed with the incurable condition corticobasal degeneration (CBD). It was released in the UK in May, and was a verifiable hit, taking home £7.6m from the UK box office and becoming the third most succes...

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12 h. ago St. Jude Children's Hospital's fundraising arm selects new CEO in midst of global expansion

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s fundraising organization, ALSAC, promoted Ike Anand Tuesday to become its new president and chief executive officer

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12 h. ago AI scammer posing as Marco Rubio targets officials in growing threat

Fake voice and text messages on Signal tricked senior leaders, as AI impersonation rises in global politicsAn unknown fraudster has used artificial intelligence to impersonate the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, contacting at least five senior officials.According to a state department cable first seen by the Washington Post and confirmed by the Guardian, the impostor sent fake voice messages and texts that mimicked Rubio’s voice and writing style to those targets including three foreign ministers, a US governor and a member of Congress. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Chanel and JW Anderson show their resistance to global luxury downturn

Chanel’s Paris show harked back to brand’s first boutique, while JW Anderson pivots to lifestyle and homewaresThere was no designer to take a bow after Chanel in Paris, but the creative director, Matthieu Blazy – whose first show will take place in October – had already been at the sketchbook. “It is not his collection – but it is not happening without him either,” said Bruno Pavlovsky, the president of fashion at Chanel, before the show. “You will see his touch.”Inside the Grand Palais sat fashion’s favourite popstars, Lorde and Gracie Abrams, alongside the outgoing Vogue editor Anna Wintour. But instead of Karl Lagerfeld’s elaborate Warholian sets, the show space had been transformed into a salon based on Chanel’s first boutique, with butterscotch carpets and floor-to-ceiling mirrors. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Chanel marks 110 years by recreating its couture salon in a palace as Blazy era approaches

Chanel has marked 110 years of its haute couture by recreating its atelier inside the freshly restored Grand Palais for Paris Couture Week

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15 h. ago Luxury Perthshire retail outlet is facing legal challenge over its VAT bill

House of Bruar managing director Patrick Birkbeck said: “There is an ongoing debate on VAT treatment on US sales and we need to sort that out."

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15 h. ago Whatever the truth of The Salt Path, I know why people wanted to believe it | Gaby Hinsliff

As questions are asked about the bestselling memoir, is the demand for hope-over-hardship stories outstripping reality?Was the story always, in hindsight, just a little too good to be true? A middle-aged couple, brutally down on their luck after bankruptcy and a terminal diagnosis, escape their troubles on an epic walk round the South West Coast Path, finding comfort along the way in the kindness of strangers. Billed as an “honest and life-affirming” story of prevailing against the odds, The Salt Path became first a bestseller and then a blockbuster film, starring a windswept Gillian Anderson. Though it was never really my thing, I knew plenty of people for whom The Salt Path genuinely resonated, with its romantic central theme of being (as the film’s director, Marianne Elliott, put it) “reformed by the elements” of a blustery English seascape.If it seemed a bit unlikely that a dying man could be rejuvenated by a strenuous trek involving wild camping in all weathers – well, getting ...

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17 h. ago Trophy Apartment in London’s Chelsea Neighborhood Asks £35 Million

Trophy Apartment in London’s Chelsea Neighborhood Asks £35 Million  Mansion Global

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17 h. ago ITV This Morning star says 'we nearly lost the whole crew' after co

This Morning viewers were left concerned for actress Natalie Anderson as she presented a segment live from a boat in Mykonos, with Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard also fearing for the crew

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18 h. ago Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard ask if Coronation Street's Natalie Anderson 'is okay' after This Morning blooper

The actress was reporting live from the Greek island Mykonos when the incident occured

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19 h. ago Relief for UK steel industry as Trump delays ramping up tariffs to 50% AGAIN

Donald Trump has extended the deadline for increasing levies on global imports from 25 per cent to 50 per cent.

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20 h. ago Luxury sleeper train forced to refund passengers after maiden journey delayed

The first passenger journey on the Britannic Explorer is scheduled to depart on 21 July

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