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From smartphones to air fryers, several popular gadgets have been found to ‘spy’ on users. Now, it seems that not even the cinema is safe. British cinema chain, Vue, is quietly using artificial intelligence (AI) to track viewer habits and boost admissions. Affecting all of its 93 cinemas in the UK and Ireland, the system identifies the best locations and times to show films in order to maximise ticket sales. So if you saw ‘Gladiator II’ or ‘Paddington in Peru’ at a Vue cinema over the weekend, there’s a chance your viewing habits have been used to inform future screening times. While the news may…

A former professional wrestling champion recently faced his most fearsome competitor yet; a mosquito infected with West Nile Virus.Fabio Caruso, 40, better known as The Sicilian Slammer in the ring, was working in his yard in Whitestone, New York, in September last year when he was bit by a mosquito. At the time, the wrestler was recovering from a kidney transplant, so his immune system was suppressed, which allowed the virus to quickly spread out of control in his body and develop into a severe infection.As his condition deteriorated, Mr Caruso found himself admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at NYU Langone.Respiratory failure and lower-body…

A man put his life savings into buying a crumbling cowshed – and turned it into a dream forever home.Simon Baker, 52, sold his one-bed flat in London to buy a derelict Eryri cow shed in the Machno Valley in North Wales.Putting all his savings into buying the land, Simon acknowledge that it was a ‘huge gamble’ as the shed didn’t have any planning permissions.But he doesn’t regret having to spend cold nights camping in the back of his Ford Focus while the old stone building was being renovated.And the now modern-looking shed – believed to be dated back to…

Laken Riley’s accused killer was given a taxpayer-funded plane ticket to Georgia, where he brutally murdered the college student, jurors at the illegal immigrant’s murder trial heard Monday.Jose Ibarra’s roommate took the stand in his murder trial on Monday and said she and the Venezuelan migrant moved together from New York City to Athens in September, 2023.Rosbeli Elisber Flores-Bello told the court she met Ibarra in Queens and within a month decided to move to Georgia with him.'[Ibarra] told me there was work possibilities in Athens,’ Flores-Bello testified.’His brother [Diego Ibarra] was always calling him saying there was work in Athens,…

This is the moment a Ukrainian nursery teacher took out a Russian cruise missile from a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher with her first shot.Nataliia Hrabarchuk, a teacher-turned-soldier, was captured in stunning footage obliterating the Kh-101 long-range missile on Sunday morning.Hrabarchuk, donning a helmet and safety vest, was seen with the large Igla MANPADS rocket-launcher balancing on her shoulder before she fired into the distance.She then dropped to her knees in disbelief as she successfully targeted the Russian missile on her first attempt during her first combat launch.The sound of an explosion can be heard in the distance as Hrabarchuk remains on her knees…

All top-flight clubs signed up the the Equality, Diversion and Inclusion standard But the Premier League was challenged on how its own EDI was being monitored Is Harry Kane right to blast England drop-outs? LISTEN NOW: It’s All Kicking Off! Available wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes every Monday and ThursdayBy MIKE KEEGAN Published: 13:31 EST, 18 November 2024 | Updated: 14:24 EST, 18 November 2024 The Premier League has entered into its own diversity programme – after complaints from some of its clubs.All top-flight sides signed up to the competition’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Standard (PLEDIS), which was launched in 2021. It…

Litigation specialist RGL Management is determined to hold investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown to account for the part it played in persuading investors to buy investment fund Woodford Equity Income ahead of its suspension in June 2019 – and subsequent break-up.RGL has told me more than 2,000 claimants have been added to the High Court group claim brought against the wealth manager in October 2022 with the number of claimants now more than 5,000.RGL says the action is for the losses that investors sustained as a result of the platform recommending the Woodford fund – run by Neil Woodford – right up…

By EVE BUCKLAND FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JASON CHESTER FOR MAILONLINE Published: 13:59 EST, 18 November 2024 | Updated: 14:12 EST, 18 November 2024 Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter attended Sabrina Carpenter’s LA concert at Kia Forum in Inglewood, California over the weekend.Blue, 12, covered herself in lipstick kisses as she emulated the Taste hitmaker’s style on her Short n’ Sweet Tour – which has seen her don sequin leotards with rhinestone kisses on.Blue was the spitting image of her superstar mom in a stylish top and skirt as she headed to the concert – with red lipstick across her…

A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been found after almost 2,000 years.Archaeologists have uncovered part of the ancient Roman road known as Watling Street beneath modern London’s Old Kent Road.Watling Street was paved by the Romans in 43 AD and ran 276 miles (444km) from Dover to the West Midlands.This is the first time that researchers have found physical proof that parts of the Roman highway survive directly below its modern counterpart. Although Roman roads are characteristically straight, it has proven exceedingly difficult to find hard evidence of Watling Street’s path through the capital.However, during work…

Nanoplastics could be interfering with your antibiotics – making the crucial drugs less effective and contributing to the rise of dangerous drug-resistant superbugs. Using one of the most common antibiotics, called tetracycline, researchers in Sweden, Germany and Hungary, created a computer model to see how the medication interacted with bits of plastic that were less than one thousandth the thickness of a credit card.They then tested what they learned in the model on human cells grown in the lab. It turns out that the antibiotics bind to the surface of the tiny plastic molecules. This can cause the drugs to ‘hitchhike’ a ride…