4 h. ago Convenience store of the 'future' opens powered by AI and robots

Lawson, a convenience store in Japan, has gone full tech in a store in Tokyo in partnership with KDDI in a bid to improve customer experience and collect data on how their stores work by using AI

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7 d. ago My perfect holiday reading, by Bernardine Evaristo, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith and more

Authors including Michael Rosen, Samantha Harvey and Rutger Bregman reveal their books of the summerSummer reading: the 50 hottest books to read nowThe 10 best audiobooks for summerZadie SmithFor me summer reading is about immersion. Three novels fully absorbed me recently. Flesh by David Szalay is a very smart and stylish novel about the 1%, filtered through the life of a Hungarian bodyguard/driver in their midst. Cécé by Emmelie Prophète (out 23 September) vividly depicts the slums of contemporary Haiti via a very online young sex worker who lives her best life on Facebook. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie features a series of unforgettable women trying to work out what love means. The summer read I’m looking forward to myself is Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, a true original.David NichollsI would recommend two books, 800 pages and a shade under 150, depending on what you can carry. Helen Garner’s collected diaries, How to End a Story, are frank, gripping and rev...

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1 week ago The rise of local entrepreneurship: How small businesses are powering Yorkshire’s economic revival

As Yorkshire charts its course through a post-pandemic economy, a quiet revolution is taking place—not in corporate boardrooms, but on high streets, in market stalls, and behind home-office desks. Local entrepreneurs, armed with resilience, creativity, and digital tools, are breathing new life into communities and powering a grassroots economic revival that is reshaping the region’s future.

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1 week ago Transport Secretary to draw ‘line in the sand’ over HS2 as she reveals failings

The Government will attempt to learn from the failings of the major rail project for future infrastructure such as Northern Powerhouse Rail.

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2 w. ago ‘Misshapes, mistakes, misfits’: Pulp’s signature secondhand style has stood test of time

Band’s ‘on the edge of kitsch’ aesthetic is still relevant three decades later as young people focus on vintage clothing Thirty years ago this month Pulp played the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury and took their reputation to another level. If part of this was due to a storming set taking in their new hit Common People, debuts for their future hits Mis-Shapes and Disco 2000, and the star power of singer Jarvis Cocker, it was also down to their look.There was Steve Mackay, bass guitarist, in a fitted shirt and kipper tie, Russell Senior on violin in a blue safari shirt, keyboardist Candida Doyle in sequins and – of course – Cocker, in his now signature secondhand 70s tailoring. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago E2E Tech 100: How Reward’s CEO is revolutionising customer loyalty with AI

As Reward continues its global expansion across EMEA and Asia, CEO Jamie Samaha explains how the company has grown revenues by 50% while staying true to its founding purpose – and why AI-powered personalisation is the future of customer engagement

Economics

2 w. ago How Infantino used Trump and the Club World Cup to open up football’s next cash cow

Fifa’s new tournament has been divisive and Miguel Delaney outlines how it could reshape football’s future and where the power ultimately lies

Politics

2 w. ago How Infantino embraced Trump and the Club World Cup as a political football

Fifa’s new tournament has been divisive and Miguel Delaney outlines how it could reshape football’s future and where the power ultimately lies

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2 w. ago Rachel Reeves gives major update on future of nuclear power plant Sizewell C

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to confirm the multi-billion pound nuclear plant Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast will go-ahead as part of Wednesday's Spending Review

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3 w. ago Government moves to drop Sheetz discrimination case as Trump targets key civil rights tool

Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to halt the use of a key tool for enforcing the country’s civil rights laws

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3 w. ago Supermarket giants Morrisons planning Lockerbie convenience store

An application for a building in the town’s High Street to be turned into a Morrisons Daily has been approved by the council.

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3 w. ago Liverpool locals complain convenience store smells like 'fish and death'

Locals say inconsiderate parking, dumped rubbish, and planning issues have made life unbearable around Best Foods Mega - with the smell of 'fish and death' driving residents mad

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last month Goods delivered by nuclear power? UN agency chief meets Greek shipowners to discuss the idea

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has met with Greek shipowners and government ministers to discuss the potential use of nuclear power in the future of global goods transportation

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