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Gadgets & Gizmos: The best book title ever, AI authors & self-cleaning touch screens

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: The best book title ever, AI authors & self-cleaning touch screens
Steve Caplin discusses the latest tech with Simon Rose. Apple's most famous designer has produced Charles III's Coronation logo, Microsoft's Bing AI doesn't know what year it is, Kindle's ChatGPT authors and the best book title ever, a sign language-reading app, self-cleaning touch screens for cars, a way of telling if you're overusing your voice, an alarm clock that shocks you awake and setting a spider (or lots of them) to catch a moth.
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Steve Caplin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Barclays, Standard Chartered & the banking sector

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Barclays, Standard Chartered & the banking sector
Russ Mould of A J Bell takes a look at the banking sector. He points out that there are many similarities in the results from Barclays and Standard Chartered, with both showing the highest profits and dividends for some time. However, the market has reacted very differently, with Barclays punished and Standard boosted. He also discusses why banks might be being criticised by MPs and others for still squeezing savers.
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Russ Mould

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The Business of Film: Magic Mike's Last Dance, Shotgun Wedding & The Sea Beast

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Magic Mike's Last Dance, Shotgun Wedding & The Sea Beast
James Cameron-Wilson on the latest box office (-24%) and the movies worth seeing (and worth avoiding). At #2 is Magic Mike's Last Dance, the 3rd in the series, with Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek, which James enjoyed. He was less enamoured of the Jennifer Lopez film Shotgun Wedding, now on Amazon Prime. It is, he said, a comic thriller with no laughs and few thrills. However, he adored the Oscar-nominated animated film The Sea Beast which is now on Netflix and recommends it strongly.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Internet Explorer, AI getting too frisky & autonomous fighter jets

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: RIP Internet Explorer, AI getting too frisky & autonomous fighter jets
Steve Caplin astounds Simon Rose with tales of the latest tech. Microsoft are killing off Internet Explorer, AI can change the style of video footage and synthesise voices while an AI virtual friend is apparently getting way too frisky with some users. Scientists have developed an automatic arm-stroker to redue stress, Lockheed Martin now have an autonomous fighter jet, the best restaurant in Montreal doesn't actually exist, physiological synchrony can determine how a date is going while goldfish turn out to have fantastic memories and sea squirts eat their own brains.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: Sturgeon's resignation, Starmer's Corbyn ban & a possible NI Protocol deal

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Sturgeon's resignation, Starmer's Corbyn ban & a possible NI Protocol deal
Political commentator Mike Indian looks at the ramifications of Nicola Sturgeon's surprise resignation as Scottish First Minister, speculating what might happen now and whether this will be seen as a great opportunity for the Labour Party. He explains why he thinks that Keir Starmer's decision to ban Jeremy Corbyn from running as a Labour candidate is not a smart decision. And he crosses his fingers that there is a possible NI Protocol deal in the offing.
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Mike Indian

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Gadgets and Gizmos: Google Bard, Portable Coffee Printers, Top-Down Skyscrapers

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets and Gizmos: Google Bard, Portable Coffee Printers, Top-Down Skyscrapers
Steve Caplin dives into the world of tech, telling Simon Rose about plans for charging users of ChatGPT and problems with Google's launch of its rival, Bard. There's also a stunning phone camera, how driverless cars might better cope with crossroads, Twitter being sued by the Crown Estate, a portable coffee printer, why skiers with Apple watches are annoying the Colorado police and a skyscraper in Detroit being built from the top down.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: Macron & pensions, what role for UK unions & Sunak's reshuffle

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Macron & pensions, what role for UK unions & Sunak's reshuffle
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University explains to Simon Rose why, if Emmanuel Macron can't raise France's retirement age, Europe's fiscal union could be doomed. He ponders what the role is now for the UK's trade unions in a new age of industrial action. And he marvels at the enormous yawn factor of Rishi Sunak's cabinet reshuffle. With Volodymyr Zelensky's UK visit showing up our own politicians, he wonders why we no longer seem to have great Parliamentarians.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Puss In Boots - The Last Wish, Knock At The Cabin & The Whale

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Puss In Boots - The Last Wish, Knock At The Cabin & The Whale
James Cameron-Wilson takes Simon Rose through the UK box office numbers, up 14% on the previous week. #1 is Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the belated sequel pushing Avatar 2 into second place. James found it migraine-inducing. M Night Shyamalan's Knock At The Cabin is #3 but James found it mad and daft in equal measure. However, he thought Darren Aronofsky's The Whale at #5 one of the best films of the last 12 months. Starring Brendan Fraser, it's a claustrophobic tale of an immensely large teacher approaching the end of his life and has received many nominations.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why has the FTSE100 been hitting record highs?

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Gadgets and Gizmos

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Why has the FTSE100 been hitting record highs?
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor tells Simon Rose why, despite the general air of doom and gloom in the UK, the FTSE 100 index has been hitting record highs recently. She discusses recent results from Unilever, Shell & BP and points out the research suggesting that the UK might just manage to avoid a recession this year.
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Victoria Scholar

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: A rate rise & market reaction to Rishi's 100 days

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: A rate rise & market reaction to Rishi's 100 days
Russ Mould of A J Bell looks at the MPC's decision to increase rates to 4%, the highest since 2008. Is it doing the right thing? He has crunched the numbers to reveal that the All Share has risen 11.5% during Sunak's 100 days as PM, second only to the rise when Edward Heath entered Number Ten (15.4%) and slightly ahead of Tony Blair (10.1%).
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Russ Mould

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