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Australian restaurants facing a mounting cost-of-doing-business crisis are turning to automatic service charges as a way to shore up revenue. The practice is legal under Australian consumer law as long as customers are notified beforehand and can opt out, but it risks alienating diners in a country where tipping has traditionally been optional.
Wes Lambert, chief executive of the Australian Cafe and Restaurant Association, said only a handful of businesses in central business districts currently add autom
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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The Sony Xperia 1 VIII feels like it’s from a different timeline – one where smartphone makers didn’t remove the microSD slot and the 3.5mm headphone jack, where they didn’t adopt punch-hole displays... or big, fast-charging batteries. We’re not going to sugarcoat it, the Mark 8 flagship has a hefty starting price of €1,500 / £1,400 and the inclusion of a free pair of the excellent WH-1000XM6 doesn’t quite make... Read more ›
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Иногда возникает ощущение, что между ОТО, квантовой механикой и нашим физическим восприятием мира всё ещё не хватает какого-то интуитивного мостика.В этой статье я попробую рассмотреть гравитацию и эффект Казимира через простую волновую интерпретацию: что если масса — это устойчивая волновая структура, а гравитация является следствием градиентов состояния среды?Это не попытка «отменить физику» и не «теория всего», а скорее попытка посмотреть на уже известные эффекты под немного другим углом. Читать далее Read more ›
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Философия статья начинается с удивления. В данном случае я отметил для себя то, как по-разному начинающие разработчики реагируют на сложности, с которыми сталкиваются. Например, когда надо сделать выбор - какое решение взять, чтобы избежать ошибок? Кажется, все сталкиваются с такими неудобными вопросами. Давайте попробуем разобраться. Читать далее Read more ›
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Предлагаю немного помедитировать о ближайшем будущем нашей цивилизации. Данный мини-обзор я рассматриваю как некую подводку к опросу на тему сабжа в конце. Если кто-то считает, что историю вопроса он и так знает, может переходить прямо к опросу. Погнали! Read more ›
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Father's Day is just around the corner, and these thoughtful gifts are guaranteed to put a smile on your dad's face, whatever brew he enjoys. Read more ›
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Just as the global security community grapples with shockwaves from Anthropic’s Mythos that can autonomously exploit software vulnerabilities, Google recently… Read more ›
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Lean Technologies scales its Pay by Bank suite in the UAE using Open Finance, driving A2A payments adoption and reducing over $100m in card fees for regional businesses. Read more ›
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When Ashish Agrawal, Ishaan Mittal and Tejeshwi Sharma quit Peak XV Partners earlier this year, it revived the debate around… Read more ›
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Давайте посмотрим, через какие фазы и сломы проходило наше общество в прошлом. Преобразование труда и переоценка ценностей уже знакомы человечеству, и каждый раз это было «больно».В этой статье я хочу напомнить читателям, как проходила в обществе промышленная революция XVIII-XIX в. Пытливый ум сам проведет нужные параллели и сделает выводы... Окно в прошлое --> (open) Read more ›
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Spending time in bars taught my daughter how to have conversations with people she might not have much in common with. I'm grateful for that. Read more ›
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Last week, we asked you to vote on the topic of Motorola’s new flip foldables – the Razr 70 series or, as they are known in the US, the Razr 2026 series. While there are three models involved, we can come to only one conclusion. And that conclusion is that the new flip foldables are too expensive – each of the three (vanilla, plus and Ultra) has its fans, however,... Read more ›
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ByteDance and Kuaishou outshine western rivals, lifting AI video quality across advertising and entertainment Read more ›
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See the Moon phase expected for May 17, 2026 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected. Read more ›
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Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for May 17, No. 601. Read more ›
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Android Auto has more to offer than just Spotify and Google Maps. There's a whole range of apps that you can use in your car. Here are a few of our favorites. Read more ›
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"Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable," reports the New York Times. And "After Meta said late last month that it would start tracking employees' computer use, hundreds of workers spoke up." (One employee even told Meta's CTO in an internal post, "Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning." In an internal post last month, Meta told its U.S. employees that it was making... Read more ›
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CNBC reports: The European Union is considering rules that would restrict its member governments' use of U.S. cloud providers to handle sensitive data, sources familiar with the talks told CNBC. The European Commission — the EU's executive branch — is expected to present its "Tech Sovereignty Package" on May 27, which will include a range of measures aimed at bolstering the bloc's strategic autonomy in key digital areas. As part... Read more ›
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IT sector unemployment "increased to 3.8% in April from 3.6% in March," reports the Wall Street Journal. But they add that the increase reflects "an ongoing uncertainty in tech as AI continues to play havoc with hiring. That's according to analysis from consulting firm Janco Associates, which bases its findings on data from the U.S. Labor Department." On Friday, the department said the economy added 115,000 jobs, buoyed by gains... Read more ›
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For just the first three months of 2026, Rocket Lab's launch business reports $63.7 million in revenue, reports CNBC — plus another $136.7 million from its space systems business. Besides beating Wall Street's expectations, Rocket Lab also announced that its backlog has more than doubled from a year ago to $2.2 billion, and that it's buying space robotics company Motiv Space Systems. Friday its stock price shot up 34% in... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Futurism: In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. "While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools," the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. "As part of our builder... Read more ›
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"General Motors sold the data of California drivers without their knowledge or consent," says California's attorney general, "and despite numerous statements reassuring drivers that it would not do so." In 2024, The New York Times "reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers' driving behavior with insurance companies," remembers TechCrunch, "and that some customers were concerned that their insurance rates had gone up as a result." Now... Read more ›
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This week Amazon opened up its parcel shipping, fulfillment, and distribution "to businesses of all types and sizes." Any business can now ship, store, and deliver "using the same supply chain that supports Amazon," according to Monday's announcement of "Amazon Supply Chain Services." The move sent shares of UPS and FedEx "tumbling" Monday writes GeekWire. And though both stocks bounced back as the week went on, GeekWire sees this as... Read more ›
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Major American cloud companies with data centers in the Persian Gulf "are channeling data out of the war zone through fiber-optic cables that an Iraqi telecom has strung alongside crude-oil pipelines," reports RestofWorld.org: The data centers serve customers in more than 190 countries, processing transactions, storing files, and running applications for businesses and individuals from Latin America to South Asia. When Iranian drones struck Amazon's facilities in the United Arab... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek: A newly revealed Honda patent shows the company developing a simulated electronic clutch system for electric motorcycles, complete with torque-boost launches and even haptic feedback designed to mimic the feel of a combustion engine.... Instead of using a traditional mechanical clutch, the system uses electronics to alter how the motor responds based on clutch lever position. Pull the clutch halfway in, and... Read more ›
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Open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 "has been around since 2011," Kotaku notes, and has made 70% of the PlayStation 3's library fully playable, "bolstered in part by the many users who contribute to its GitHub page." But their dev team "took to X today to very kindly and civilly request that users 'stop submitting AI slop code pull requests' to its GitHub page." Then they immediately proceeded to tell the AI-brain-rotted... Read more ›
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