A Japanese researcher affiliated with Sony has presented a “Human Uber” product at an MIT conference in Asia this week. The device, which provides a way to attend events remotely using another person’s body, uses a real human as a surrogate for another remote user. The surrogate wears a mask-shaped...
A barrier outside the Conservative Party Conference has been making the rounds on social media today ahead of the Conservative Party Conference. Delegates convened yesterday for the first day of the annual meeting in Birmingham with several big issues on the agenda. But despite international issues such as Brexit dominating...
It’s official – an Englishman’s home really IS his castle. Researchers who carried out a detailed study found keeping the 'castle' in tip top condition demands 104 hours of decorating or DIY, 493 hours cleaning and £1081 on tradesmen coming round every year. It also emerged more than one third...
Boris Johnson has left national newspaper editors salivating once again today after he revealed grandiose visions of a bridge to Ireland in his Brexit plans. In an interview with the Sunday Times the former Foreign Secretary and Mayor of London lashed out at the Prime Minister’s Brexit blueprint, saying the...
Administrators that run an anti-EU group on Facebook were left red faced after a poll created to gauge the nation's appetite for leaving the union returned a strong Remain consensus. The poll, posted on "Nigel Farage - Leave Means Leave", garnered almost a million votes since it was posted on...
More than a quarter of British workers say they have experienced discrimination in the workplace, research has revealed. The study found prejudice towards gender, race and age is still commonplace in UK businesses, but a youth-driven revolution could be underway to counter it. Generation Z (under 25s) are twice as...
A Tory councillor is facing calls to resign after tweeting he 'bought two of the staff' at a slavery museum - and said abortion clinics in Liverpool were a form of 'crime prevention.' Controversial Bob Frost, a Conservative councillor for North Deal, Kent, was lambasted for his series of unsavoury...
A new free-to-view film has been released exposing how London became the money laundering capital of the world. The Spider’s Web has already racked up half a million views since it was released earlier this month and puts London at the centre of a global web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions...
The Labour Party Conference erupted into cheers after Jeremy Corbyn told Theresa May that if she can’t negotiate a Brexit deal she must “make way for a party that can”. Brexit has been a focal part of this year’s conference with both Corbyn and Deputy Leader Tom Watson leaving all...