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While the common trend in supermarkets is to speed up the checkout process, one store in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, has taken the opposite approach. They have introduced a so-called super-slow checkout, where there is no room for rush and stress. This checkout is designed especially for the elderly and people with health problems. Everyone ha...
Fast food chain McDonald's has postponed its plans to introduce AI-based automated service for McDrive. The system, which has been tested since 2019 in partnership with IBM, wasn't perfect and sometimes gave drivers incorrect orders. Frustrated customers filmed some of the situations on mobile phones and posted the videos on social media, the...
In the last two months, the unwanted visitor Qbot, which has been causing security experts a lot of concern for the last year, has reappeared. According to cybersecurity company Check Point, it is now one of the most widespread malicious codes in the Czech Republic, targeting computers running the Windows operating system. Qbot, which first a...
Fast and effective workouts with the 7 Minutes Workout app If you're short on time, the 7 Minutes Workout app is the perfect solution to keep fit. It offers short, seven-minute workouts that include basic exercises to speed up your heart rate and stretch your muscles. Even if you're not a big fan of exercise, these short and effective workout...
Hit-and-run cyclists are a disgusting but unfortunately common occurrence. Fifteen-year-old Lochlan Nicol of Jensen Beach, Florida, experienced this firsthand when he rode his bike to a gas station to get ice cream. Little did he know what was in store for him, and what role his AirPods would play in it. Suddenly, he was hit by an SUV, with h...
Shocking scenes took place last weekend on the German island of Sylt, where a group of exuberant young people celebrated the start of the tourist season. With smiles on their faces and music playing, they shouted the slogans "Germany to Germans, foreigners out!" (Deutschland den Deutschen, Ausländer raus!). Many of them filmed these moments o...
Brothers Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, former students at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are facing serious fraud and money laundering charges after stealing millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. According to the BBC, they face up to 20 years in prison. It is unusual for graduates of a respected universit...
The US government recently issued an executive order forcing Elon Musk, a prominent businessman and founder of SpaceX, to shut down the Starlink satellite system in areas occupied by Russia. This order was issued in order to prevent the Russian military from being able to use Starlink for potential military purposes. Starlink, a SpaceX projec...
In the US, new legal action has recently emerged regarding the TikTok app, which has generated considerable attention and uncertainty about the future of the platform. The Chinese company behind TikTok, ByteDance, filed a lawsuit against the US government after a new law was passed that would essentially ban the use of TikTok in the United State...
