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The ultimate British meal deal: The 5 best main, snack and drink combos, according to AI - so, do YOU agree with its selections?
Forget fish and chips or sausage, mash, and gravy - when it comes to British lunches, it's the meal deal that rules supreme. According to the latest figures, 'meal deal mania' is at a record high in the UK, with over of a third of Britons indulging in the offer at least once a week. But with thousands of possible combinations of mains, sides, and drinks available, one key question remains – what is the ultimate British meal deal? To answer this burning question, MailOnline turned to AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which came up with a list of five top combinations. So, do you agree with its meal deal selection?
Twitter Permeability to financial events: an experiment towards a model for sensing irregularities
Vilas, Ana Fernández, Redondo, Rebeca P. Díaz, Crockett, Keeley, Owda, Majdi, Evans, Lewis
There is a general consensus of the good sensing and novelty characteristics of Twitter as an information media for the complex financial market. This paper investigates the permeability of Twittersphere, the total universe of Twitter users and their habits, towards relevant events in the financial market. Analysis shows that a general purpose social media is permeable to financial-specific events and establishes Twitter as a relevant feeder for taking decisions regarding the financial market and event fraudulent activities in that market. However, the provenance of contributions, their different levels of credibility and quality and even the purpose or intention behind them should to be considered and carefully contemplated if Twitter is used as a single source for decision taking. With the overall aim of this research, to deploy an architecture for real-time monitoring of irregularities in the financial market, this paper conducts a series of experiments on the level of permeability and the permeable features of Twitter in the event of one of these irregularities. To be precise, Twitter data is collected concerning an event comprising of a specific financial action on the 27th January 2017:{~ }the announcement about the merge of two companies Tesco PLC and Booker Group PLC, listed in the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), to create the UK's Leading Food Business. The experiment attempts to answer five key research questions which aim to characterize the features of Twitter permeability to the financial market. The experimental results confirm that a far-impacting financial event, such as the merger considered, caused apparent disturbances in all the features considered, that is, information volume, content and sentiment as well as geographical provenance. Analysis shows that despite, Twitter not being a specific financial forum, it is permeable to financial events.
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Do smart supermarkets herald the end of shopping as we know it?
Welcome to the supermarkets of the future. They may look and feel like the supermarkets we are all used to – and stock the same bread, butter and bananas – but these shops are now fitted out with more than £1m of the latest technology that their bosses promise will put an end to our biggest frustration (queueing) and our most persistent crime (shoplifting). Jill French, a legal secretary in her 30s, wearing a sharp navy suit and matching beret, has just left a Tesco Express on London's Holborn Viaduct empty-handed. It's coming up to 6.30pm on a Thursday and, like dozens of others, French has popped in for a few essentials on her way home. "I just went in to grab pasta, milk and some broccoli," she says.
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Tesco takes on Amazon Go with launch of 'just walk out' store
Tesco is fighting back against Amazon with its first "just walk out" store, where it is possible to buy groceries without having to scan items or visit a till. The supermarket's GetGo store in Holborn, central London, follows a small trial of a similar store at Tesco head office in Welwyn Garden City, which has been selling goods to the retailer's staff since 2019. Weight sensors in the shelves work with an AI system that can track an individual's movement around the store and monitor the items they pick up via cameras, which follow each shopper. The AI system works by building a unique skeleton outline of each person rather than using facial recognition. Once inside, shoppers can pick up the items they want without scanning them.
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The Impact of AI on Delivery Businesses
You know the Travelling Salesman Problem? Find the shortest route that takes you to every city on a list and returns you home. In fact it's an NP-hard problem, where NP stands for non-deterministic polynomial time. Just in case you were in any doubt about how hard it is. But if you're a grocery retailer, delivering the weekly shopping to millions of homes, or the country's leading furniture maker... well, it's a problem you have to solve.
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'Christmas slots went in five hours': how online supermarket Ocado became a lockdown winner
Ocado's warehouse in Erith, 15 miles east of London on the Thames estuary, is staffed by 1,050 "personal shoppers". Outnumbering them are 1,800 robots the size of small washing machines. You see them by climbing to the top level of the vast warehouse – at 564,000 sq ft, it is more than three times the size of St Peter's in Rome – where a sign tells you that photography is strictly prohibited. The online supermarket is paranoid that rivals will glimpse the technology it believes to be revolutionary. From the viewing platform you can watch these metal cubes endlessly whiz around, moving thousands of plastic crates as if they were playing an enormous game of chess. You occasionally sight bottles of bleach or rosé, packets of noodles and dog biscuits, before they are sent down to a lower level. "I find it quite mesmerising, like robotic ballet," says Mel Smith, CEO of Ocado Retail, the UK arm of the business. "The day I decided I wanted this job was when I went to [the warehouse] and thought, this is absolutely the future."
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How data science is transforming business IT PRO
Over the last few years, data has become one of the most valuable commodities for any business, driving decisions, powering new models and producing insights that can increase a company's revenue or save it millions of pounds. Yet data alone can't deliver real-world value – it's only when it's applied to projects and systems that these insights emerge. It's data scientists that put in the research, thinking, planning and hard graft that transform data into tangible results. To do so, data scientists harness their technical and analytical expertise, planning and developing data-driven projects that meet existing or future business needs. They help define any data architectures, models and operations research techniques involved in making those projects work effectively, and train their machine learning systems to spot patterns, forecast probable scenarios and predict results.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) market trends -- Increasing deployment of machine learning in BFSI and…
The concept of artificial intelligence has been a fascination since long. Basically a simulation of the human intelligence embedded in machines that are devised to think and work like human brains whilst imitating the similar actions, AI has brought about a revolution worldwide. What has made the AI market gain quite some traction since the last few years is the conceptual interpretation of the subject as depicted by big-budget films and novels. These illustrations build up artificial intelligence as a robot in the minds of people which is fostering the penetration of artificial intelligence-based solutions worldwide. Emerging as a groundbreaking invention since 1956, artificial intelligence has let loose various human intelligence concerns on the side and has evolved as top choice for myriad industries, sectors and companies to execute tasks, right from simple to complex.
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Black Friday Xbox One S deals: eBay wins Black Friday with £99 Xbox deal - back in stock today
If so, eBay's offering of a 1TB Xbox One S All Digital console with Minecraft, Sea Of Thieves and Fortnite for less than £100 might sound like the deal of the decade. The mega Xbox One S deal went live at midnight and has already become eBay's fastest selling Black Friday deal with one bundle selling every two seconds. If you missed out, you'll be pleased to hear eBay are restocking the bundle at 11am today (November 29). But you'll have to be quick - once they're sold out, they're sold out. It might seem too good to be true, but this eBay Black Friday deal is for real, and the battle for the cheapest Xbox One S bundle among retailers is in full swing.
Amazon Go Looks To Expand As Checkout-Free Shopping Starts To Catch On Across The Retail Landscape
The success and fast expansion of Amazon Go has led other retailers and venues to seek startup help ... [ ] for their own cashierless checkout-free stores. On Amazon's jobs site, a keyword search query for Amazon Go yielded 3,500 results, seeking to fill positions manning the cashierless stores and looking for a head of marketing for the concept and a wide variety of engineers and program managers. Meanwhile, six months after the first Amazon Go opened in New York in May, six stores are in operation in the city, including four located less than a mile from one another in Midtown Manhattan. Two more are scheduled to open soon in the city. Those job postings and the fact that Amazon Go is cropping up in busy commercial sections of New York are just the latest signal of the Seattle giant's ambition to further expand its Just Walk Out Shopping concept, which features in-house-built computer vision, sensor fusion and deep machine learning technologies similar to those used in self-driving cars.
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