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Take a load off: how soon before a humanoid robot will be doing your dishes?

Robo-helpers are on sale now, but letting them loose in your kitchen is another story, says Chris Stokel-Walker

Evening Standard

Is Europe losing the robotics race to China, and does it matter?

Chinese firms like Unitree and Agibot are dominating the global robotics market.

Euronews

Salmond, independence strategy and sexism: what we’ve learned from Nicola Sturgeon’s book

Former Scottish first minister also reflects on gender recognition and the Covid crisis in new memoir

The Guardian - UK

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‘The essential ingredient is openness’: Curtis Sittenfeld on the deep joy of midlife friendship

Friendships become closer and more fulfilling as you get older argues the novelist, because by the time you reach middle age everyone has faced dramatic challenges, disappointments and sorrows – and being honest about them is a powerful point of bonding

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a pure form of gambling’: memecoins boom after Trump election

‘Hawk tuah girl’ Haliey Welch’s coin fails amid new wave of hype around crypto-related assets

The Guardian - UK

Alpha chimp steals eagle's dinner in 'surreal and exhilarating' forest encounter

Chimps usually hunt for their meat, but a rare confrontation between a chimp and an eagle in Tanzania showcased their ability to scavenge.

LiveScience

OPINION - My midlife sex romp made media waves and shows that Britain is still ageist

Motherhood, career, money, debt, drugs, miscarriage, abortion, rape, frequenting gay clubs in the hope of meeting “the one”, I’ve written a book about womanhood in all its messy, chaotic glory. Spending several months writing my first (and last) no-holds-barred memoir in bed, it’s jam-packed with brilliant advice, even if I…

Evening Standard

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Belfast Live readers help find couple snapped in beautiful Cathedral Quarter photo

"Belfast Live had put that article up and within half an hour he was able to find me."

Belfast Live

Cathedral Quarter - NI DJ trying to find couple in beautiful photo

"I've never taken a nicer photo just off a whim, it wouldn't have worked if I'd tried to set that up."

Belfast Live

Worst Bears draft pick from each year since 2000

We look back at the worst Bears draft pick from each year since the turn of the century.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Witnesses deny father’s claim his eight year old climbed El Capitan: ‘A publicity hoax’

‘I’m very annoyed by this because climbing El Capitan puts you in an elite group of climbers,’ observer says

The Independent UK

Tassal recommends shareholders accept $1.1 billion takeover bid from Canadian seafood giant Cooke

These unassuming Canadians have just offered $1.1 billion to take over Tasmania's last locally owned salmon producer, turning the company private — in a move that has some worried for the environment and accountability.

ABC News

Tasmanian salmon producer Tassal being circled by Canadian seafood giant Cooke

Hot on the heels of Brazilians snapping up a Tasmanian salmon company, the last locally owned producer is in the sights of a Canadian seafood giant, news that has been welcomed by the island state's Premier, Jeremy Rockliff.

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