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10 tech breakthroughs predicted to change our lives this century, according to experts

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The world has embarked on a new era of exciting technologies – and experts reveal how augmented reality, robotics and artificial intelligence are poised to change our daily lives in almost unimaginable ways. 

Mike Rhodes, CEO & Founder of ConsultMyApp, told DailyMail.com that he predicts contact lenses will display information on our eyes, AR will merge our reality with a digital world and AI will help us speak to each other telepathically,

With PwC predicting that artificial intelligence could add

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Century 21 wird als Century 21 NYC wiedereröffnet

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Ungefähr zwei Stunden nach der Wiedereröffnung von Century 21 als Century 21 NYC in Lower Manhattan am Dienstag stürzte das Kassensystem des Ladens ab.

„Das zeigt, dass sie nie hätten aufgeben sollen“, sagte Denise Danny, 58, aus Staten Island. Frau Danny, die einen Einkaufswagen voller Kleidung hatte, stand in einer Schlange, die sich vor einer Kasse im zweiten Stock des Kaufhauses gebildet hatte. „Wenn es am ersten Tag der großen Eröffnung so voll ist, wissen Sie, dass die Leute Century

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The Forgotten Drug Trips of the Nineteenth Century

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More than fifty years before it was isolated as a drug, Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamed up cocaine. In the early years of the nineteenth century, the poet was increasingly dependent on opium, a “free-agency-annihilating Poison,” as he called it, which sapped his will and made him despondent. “A Gymnastic Medicine is wanting,” he wrote in his notebook during the winter of 1808-09, “a system of forcing the Will & motive faculties into action.” The medicine he envisaged would be

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Meet the California tech dude who’s taking over his family’s 13th century castle in Cumbria

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Lying in my four-poster bed in one of Britain’s most haunted houses, the question is not whether I will see a ghost. It is: which one?

Muncaster Castle was built 800 years ago, with granite walls 8ft thick to guard the Cumbrian coast against marauding Scots. And it collects ghosts like other castles collect suits of armour.

There’s Margaret Pennington, the crying child (who died of ‘screaming fits’ right here in the Tapestry Room in 1871). Some guests find it

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Talking to AI might be the most important skill of this century

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A product race is under way in the world of artificial intelligence. Just this week, Google announced plans to release Bard, a search chatbot based on its proprietary large language model; yesterday, Microsoft held an event unveiling a next-generation web browser with a supercharged Bing interface powered by ChatGPT. Though most big tech companies have been quietly developing their own generative-AI tools for years, these giants are scrambling to demonstrate their chops after the public release and runaway adoption of

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How BA’s uniform has evolved over more than a century of aviation history 

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British Airways has unveiled a new uniform for the first time in nearly 20 years but the uniform was not always what we know it as today as at one point women had the option to wear paper dresses. 

Over the last eighty years, the airline’s crew has been putting the uniform to the test trying to find the perfect balance between practicality, style and representation of the times.

They have had the luxury of designers who work for Chanel

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Ian McEwan’s 20th Century | The Nation

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Early in Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons, an 11-year-old Roland Baines witnesses a terrible traffic accident as he and his father stroll through the streets of mid-20th-century London. Seeing the alacrity with which the onlookers—men who “had been in the war and knew what to do”—come to the victims’ aid, he is overwhelmed by a sudden wave of gratitude. As an ambulance carries away a man who might be fatally injured, young Roland is moved

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King Charles hosts ‘reception of the century’ at Buckingham Palace

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Guests attend ‘the reception of the century’ at Buckingham Palace as they pay their respects ahead of the Queen’s funeral tomorrow in one of the largest gatherings of world leaders seen in recent years. 

King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla greeted US President Joe Biden, who arrived in a private car, and President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, for was a glittering but somber event not seen since the death of Queen Elizabeth II’s father George VI in

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Scientists warn about 1:6 chance of a mega volcano eruption this century

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Towering above a remote Pacific island, the volcano is some 8,000 miles from Britain — but nowhere is safe from the devastation it will unleash on the world.

For days, explosions like distant cannon fire have terrified locals and now it’s about to blow with a force 50,000 times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

As the molten rock finally punches through the surface, giant flames shoot up into the sky with a blast that can

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