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The machines, which cost between £500,000 and £1.5 million, are capable of movements more precise than the human hand.

Cleaning and de-cluttering expert Katie Mortram has shared her top tips to help those on a spring cleaning mission manage the clutter in their homes and reveals the methods to avoid.

Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

A bad mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for almost two hours on Wednesday afternoon, US time.…

He sadly died at the scene

I've been told I would need to get the other co-freeholders in the building to agree to my plans. Is that likely and how can I incentivise them?

Nine brand new EVs have been abandoned on a public road after the Tesla-rivalling manufacturer went into liquidation last year.

KwikFit has analysed which car models wear through tyres the quickest in different parts of the UK. And Tesla owners are in for bad news. Check your car model here.

LG is partnering with Zenapse to integrate AI-driven emotional intelligence into its smart TVs, enabling hyper-targeted ads based on viewers' psychological traits, emotions, and behaviors. Ars Technica reports: The upcoming advertising approach comes via a multi-year licensing deal with Zenapse, a company describing itself as a software-as-a-service marketing platform that can drive advertiser sales "with AI-powered emotional intelligence." LG will use Zenapse's technology to divide webOS users into hyper-specific market segments that are supposed to be more informative to advertisers. LG Ad Solutions, LG's advertising business, announced the partnership on Tuesday. The technology will be used to inform ads shown on LG smart TVs' homescreens, free ad-supported TV (FAST) channels, and elsewhere throughout webOS, per StreamTV Insider. LG will also use Zenapse's tech to "expand new software development and go-to-market products," it said. LG didn't specify the duration of its licensing deal with Zenapse. Zenapse's platform for connected TVs (CTVs), ZenVision, is supposed to be able to interpret the types of emotions shown in the content someone is watching on TV, partially by using publicly available information about the show's or movie's script and plot, StreamTV Insider reported. ZenVision also analyzes viewer behavior, grouping viewers based on their consumption patterns, the publication noted. Under the new partnership, ZenVision can use data that LG has gathered from the automatic content recognition software in LG TVs. With all this information, ZenVision will group LG TV viewers into highly specified market segments, such as "goal-driven achievers," "social connectors," or "emotionally engaged planners," an LG spokesperson told StreamTV Insider. Zenapse's website for ZenVision points to other potential market segments, including "digital adopters," "wellness seekers," "positive impact & environment," and "money matters." Companies paying to advertise on LG TVs can then target viewers based on the ZenVision-specified market segments and deliver an "emotionally intelligent ad," as Zenapse's website puts it.

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If the tariff-loving Trump goes ahead with his plans, it will hit AstraZeneca - the most valuable company on the UK stock market - and also rival GSK, another stalwart of the FTSE 100.

Doctors across the UK and other nations have warned about the dangers of several wellness trends - prompting concerns about risk of heat stroke, injury and other dangerous conditions.

Two Melbourne influencers have recalled the horror of waking up to police waving guns in their faces during a trip to the US for Coachella.

Christine Kesteloo, 44, from the US, has explored over 108 countries and some of the world's most stunning destinations over the past 12 years.

Animals being used to entertain tourists outside the pyramids of Giza are being abused and left to die in piles of rubbish by the giant tombs, a new investigation has revealed.

Future chargers could re-arrange battery chemistry to make them live longer

Researchers at China’s Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering have found a way to restore the energy density of old Lithium-Ion batteries by heating them to over 150°C.…

Millions of Brits will mark Good Friday by tucking into a fish dish for their evening meal and the Royal Family are no exception.

The movie star, 62, has been named a 'titan' of 2025 alongside singer Ed Sheeran , tennis star Serena Williams.

This week's episode of 'The Apple & The Tree' features the Whitehalls, with matriarch Hilary Whitehall, 63, and daughter Molly Wilkinson, 36, spilling family secrets .

Today's Anonymous submitter was reviewing some C++ code, and saw this perfectly reasonable looking pattern.

class SomeClass { public: void setField(int val); int getField(); }

Now, we can talk about how overuse of getters and setters is itself an antipattern (especially if they're trivial- you've just made a public variable with extra steps), but it's not wrong and there are certainly good reasons to be cautious with encapsulation. That said, because this is C++, that getField should really be declared int getField() const- appropriate for any method which doesn't cause a mutation to a class instance.

Or should it? Let's look at the implementation.

void SomeClass::setField(int val) { setGetField(true, val); } void SomeClass::getField() { return setGetField(false); }

Wait, what? Why are we passing a boolean to a method called setGet. Why is there a method called setGet? They didn't go and make a method that both sets and gets, and decide which they're doing based on a boolean flag, did they?

int SomeClass::setGetField(bool set, int val) { static int s_val = 0; if (set) { s_val = val; } return s_val; }

Oh, good, they didn't just make a function that maybe sets or gets based on a boolean flag. They also made the state within that function a static field. And yes, function level statics are not scoped to an instance, so this is shared across all instances of the class. So it's not encapsulated at all, and we've blundered back into Singletons again, somehow.

Our anonymous submitter had two reactions. Upon seeing this the first time, they wondered: "WTF? This must be some kind of joke. I'm being pranked."

But then they saw the pattern again. And again. After seeing it fifty times, they wondered: "WTF? Who hired these developers? And can that hiring manager be fired? Out of a cannon? Into the sun?"

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Bob Geldof famously sang 'to live in love is all there is; life without love is meaningless'. And it seems his daughters have heeded his message.

Margot Robbie made a low-key arrival at Brisbane International Airport on Tuesday, returning home to Australia just in time to celebrate Easter with her family.