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‘World first’ driverless bus service in Scotland axed due to low passenger numbers | UK News
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A driverless bus service thought to be a world first has been cancelled due to a lack of passengers. Stagecoach has run a fleet of self-driving buses on a 14-mile route between Fife and Edinburgh since the launch of the CAVForth project in May last year. However, the service, which still requires two members of…
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DPD customer service chatbot swears and calls company ‘worst delivery firm’ | Science & Tech News
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DPD has disabled its artificial intelligence (AI) online chatbot after a customer was able to make the bot swear and write a poem criticising the parcel delivery company. Ashley Beauchamp, 30, was trying to track down a missing parcel when he said he was going “round and round in circles” trying to get any sort…
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Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale | Business News
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The owners of SoundCloud, one of the world’s largest music streaming services, are preparing for a sale that could fetch in excess of $1bn. Sky News has learnt that Raine Group and Temasek Holdings, the Singaporean state investment fund, have begun interviewing investment banks about a prospective auction of the company. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud…
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Meta Verified: Facebook and Instagram launches paid service in the UK | Science & Tech News
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The owner of Facebook and Instagram has begun rolling out a paid verification service in the UK. Meta’s subscription service can be compared to “Twitter Blue” which gives users of the social media platform a blue tick from £9.99 a month. Facebook and Instagram users can sign up for Meta Verified. The service requires users…
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Edinburgh: ‘World’s first’ driverless bus service doesn’t quite live up to the hype | UK News
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It looks like a bus, it sounds like a bus… it is a bus. However, this one is self-driving and believed to be the world’s first autonomous single-decker passenger service. Journalists were summoned to a unit near Edinburgh to board the nine-tonne vehicle for a test run ahead of the official launch with passengers on…
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Twitter circle: New select tweeting service launched for users nervous about posting to entire Twitterverse | Science & Tech News
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A new Twitter service, which allows users to share their tweets with a small, select audience, has been launched. Twitter Circle – similar to Instagram’s ‘close friends’ feature – only allows up to 150 people to see a tweet. A user can create a different Circle of up to 150 people each time they tweet…