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"The gig economy is facing a reckoning," argues Business Insider's BI Today newsletter." Two stories this past week caught my eye. Uber unveiled a new way for its drivers to earn money. No, not by giving rides, but by helping train the ride-sharing company's AI models instead. On the same day, Waymo announced a partnership with DoorDash to test driverless grocery and meal deliveries. Both moves point toward the same future: one where the very workers who built the gig economy may soon find themselves training the technology that replaces them. Uber's new program allows drivers to earn cash by completing microtasks, such as taking photos and uploading audio clips, that aim to improve the company's AI systems. For drivers, it's a way to diversify income. For Uber, it's a way to accelerate its automated future. There's an irony here. By helping Uber strengthen its AI, drivers could be accelerating the very driverless world they fear... Uber already offers autonomous rides in Waymo vehicles in Atlanta and Austin, and plans to expand. Meanwhile, Waymo is rolling out its pilot partnership with DoorDash [for driverless grocery/meal deliveries] starting in Phoenix.

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The popular Channel 4 show Escape to the Chateau is returning to our screens for series 10, according to Dick and Angel Strawbridge.

The popular Channel 4 show Escape to the Chateau is returning to our screens for series 10, according to Dick and Angel Strawbridge.

She was sadly pronounced dead at the scene

Hand up showing off a beautiful diamond engagement ring, Jennifer Cahill could not look happier.

The National Nuclear Security Administration will today give notice to 1,400 staff, with fewer than 400 to remain as the US government shutdown drags into its 20th day.

Volvo is pushing to be the upmarket car maker of choice, embodying countryside cool. Do the XC90 SUV and EX30 Cross Country SUVs hit that mark? Freda Lewis-Stempel finds out.

The investigation had been passed from Essex Police to the Met Police

Charles, 76, made clear he would not hesitate to take decisive 'further action' if his brother refused to give up his dukedom and other honours.

Now that Prince Andrew's scandalous secrets are exposed, writes NORMAN BAKER, the public have every right to know if such a senior royal has engaged in any law-breaking.

The Met's former head of royalty protection urged the force to question the royal under caution if there was evidence that he abetted an officer to commit a criminal offence in public office.

1.6 million Penalty Charge Notices were issued to drivers who parked on single or double yellow lines in 2024, but 52% of drivers say more parking spaces would prevent this.

When Elizabeth Davis heard of an attack on the synagogue in Heaton Park in Manchester, she switched on the television breaking news - and recognised the blurred image of the terrorist.

It was closed after a serious crash involving two vehicles

Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan has hit out at one of modern life's most common habits calling it 'deranged'.

The show will be hosted at Wherstead's Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park by park owner Jimmy Doherty and Sivi Ramoutar.

The Rolling Stones legend, 82, rubbed shoulders with ex wife Bianca, 80, as well as former partner Jerry Hall , 69, who attended with their daughter Elizabeth, 41.

Oh … you mean we shouldn’t press that button?

Who, Me?  Each new Monday ushers in a week during which you might shine or flatline. The Register celebrates the times you end up doing the latter with a new instalment of Who, Me? It's the column in which you admit to making mistakes and execute cunning escapes.…

Carl was debugging a job management script. The first thing that caught his attention was that the script was called file.bat. They were running on Linux.

The second thing he noticed, was that the script was designed to manage up to 999 jobs, and needed to simply roll job count over once it exceeded 999- that is to say, job 1 comes after job 999.

Despite being called file.bat, it was in fact a Bash script, and thus did have access to the basic mathematical operations bash supports. So while this could have been done via some pretty basic arithmetic in Bash, doing entirely in Bash would have meant not using Awk. And if you know how to use Awk, why would you use anything but Awk?

njobno=`echo $jobno | awk '{if ($0<999) {print $0 + 1} else { print 1 }}'`

As Carl writes: "I don't mind the desire to limit job count by way of mod(1000) but what an implementation!"

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Authorities are investigating the bizarre discovery, found by mine workers in the Australian desert.