Back in the day, couples typically met at bars, with those flirty glances eventually progressing into blossoming romances. Others might have been set-up by friends playing Cupid. Nowadays, however, singletons hit the love jackpot by swiping through a conveyor belt of strangers' faces on dating apps. A mesmerising chart today shows how the likes of Tinder and Hinge have killed off the traditional ways lovers used to meet. In the early 1960s, more than a third of couples originally met through friends.

Apple is broadly anticipated to unveil an Apple Automobile within the coming years. It can most definitely be an autonomous electrical automobile, manufactured in partnership with a longtime automotive maker. We all know a complete lot extra about Apple Automobile than we used to, so here is a rundown of every part we (suppose we) know. When precisely is an Apple Automobile coming? Effectively, it will not be for just a few years simply but. Outstanding analysts and leakers have acknowledged that it might be 2025 on the earliest. Different stories have instructed that it might launch in 2024, while Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has echoed Kuo stating a automotive is "at the least" 5 years away.

Our cities can no longer afford to be at war with nature: they need to rapidly become places where people and nature co-exist and thrive. Fortunately, there is growing recognition that nature-based solutions to cities' various challenges offer far wider benefits than traditional engineered'grey' solutions: including improving resilience, better health for its citizens, and a faster path to net zero. In our recent report with the World Economic Forum, BiodiverCities by 2030: Transforming Cities' Relationship with Nature, we highlighted that nature-based solutions are on average 50% more cost-effective than purely man-made alternatives, and deliver 28% more added value in both direct and environmental benefits. But what will wean us off our addiction to'grey' traditional concrete solutions, and move us towards approaches that better regenerate nature and reduce carbon? I believe that the innovation and fresh opportunities that come from using advanced digital tools can provide the answer.

Apple Inc. is pushing to accelerate development of its electric car and is refocusing the project around full self-driving capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to solve a technical challenge that has bedeviled the auto industry. For the past several years, Apple's car team had explored two simultaneous paths: creating a model with limited self-driving capabilities focused on steering and acceleration -- similar to most current cars from Tesla Inc. -- or a version with full self-driving ability that doesn't require human intervention. Under the effort's new leader -- Apple Watch software executive Kevin Lynch -- engineers are now concentrating on the second option. Lynch is pushing for a car with a full self-driving system in the first version, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. It's just the latest shift for the car effort, known as the Special Projects Group or "Project Titan," which has endured strategy changes and executive turnover since starting around 2014.

Apple Inc. is pushing to accelerate development of its electric car and is refocusing the project around full self-driving capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to solve a technical challenge that has bedeviled the auto industry. For the past several years, Apple's car team had explored two simultaneous paths: creating a model with limited self-driving capabilities focused on steering and acceleration -- similar to most current cars from Tesla Inc. -- or a version with full self-driving ability that doesn't require human intervention. Under the effort's new leader -- Apple Watch software executive Kevin Lynch -- engineers are now concentrating on the second option. Lynch is pushing for a car with a full self-driving system in the first version, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. It's just the latest shift for the car effort, known as the Special Projects Group or "Project Titan," which has endured strategy changes and executive turnover since starting around 2014.

This fall has seen a fantastic array of new products from Apple, ranging from new Apple Watches and iPads to the 5G iPhone 12 lineup to the insanely powerful Apple Silicon MacBooks, and with all of this going on it may be easy to forget that Apple still has at least a couple of much farther-reaching projects that it's quietly working on behind the scenes. Chief among these of course is Project Titan, more colloquially known as the "Apple Car" -- an ambitious project that's been in the works for at least seven years now, and probably still won't really see the light of day for another 3-5 years. That doesn't mean Apple isn't still actively moving ahead, however, and now a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sheds some more light on exactly what Apple is up to these days with Project Titan. It's probably no big surprise that the biggest challenge of developing a self-driving car is the "self-driving" part -- the artificial intelligence and machine learning necessary to allow onboard computers to adapt to a whole variety of rapidly changing conditions. While autonomous car technology is rapidly evolving in this area, we're still a long way away from the point at which a car will be truly 100% autonomous and able to handle every possible scenario in which a human driver may find themselves.

Apple Inc. has moved its self-driving car unit under the leadership of top artificial intelligence executive John Giannandrea, who will oversee the company's continued work on an autonomous system that could eventually be used in its own car. The project, known as Titan, is run day-to-day by Doug Field. His team of hundreds of engineers have moved to Giannandrea's artificial intelligence and machine-learning group, according to people familiar with the change. An Apple spokesman declined to comment. Previously, Field reported to Bob Mansfield, Apple's former senior vice president of hardware engineering.

Experts have predicted that automation will take over a large number of jobs in the future, and now, a United Kingdom-based think-tank has analyzed the potential impact of automation in the U.K. Their newly released report confirms this vision of the future, while also highlighting the areas of the nation likely to be hardest hit. The Centre for Cities' "Cities Outlook 2018" report maps out how likely various urban centers in the U.K. are to experience job displacement due to intelligent automation. They determined that 20.2 percent of all workers in the nation's 63 largest urban areas could be replaced by 2030. That's a total of roughly 3.6 million jobs, and according to the report, the cities in the nation's northern, least wealthy areas are likely to be most affected. Automation tends to affect administrative jobs, retail sales, customer services, and warehouse work.

Workers in Mansfield, Sunderland and Wakefield are at the highest risk of having their jobs taken by machines, according to a report warning that automation stands to further widen the north-south divide. Outside of the south of England, one in four jobs are at risk of being replaced by advances in technology – much higher than the 18% average for wealthier locations closer to London. Struggling towns and cities in the north and the Midlands are most exposed. A total of 3.6m UK jobs could be replaced by machines. The Centre for Cities thinktank says almost one-third of the jobs in the Nottinghamshire town of Mansfield, which is home to the Sports Direct warehouse, are involved in lines of work under threat as robots begin to replace humans in the years up to 2030.

After years toiling away in secret on a car project, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has for the first time elaborated on the company's plans in the automotive market. "We're focusing on autonomous systems," Cook said in a June 5 interview on Bloomberg Television that amounted to his most detailed comments yet on Apple's automotive plans. "It's a core technology that we view as very important." He likened the effort to "the mother of all AI projects," saying it's "probably one of the most difficult AI projects to work on." The prospect of self-driving cars has seen a slew of technology companies push into the auto industry, according to McKinsey & Co. Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit has signed partnerships with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Lyft Inc. to develop the technology.