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Savers Value Village thrift store launches new AI tool to price items
Business News Savers Value Village is launching a new platform leveraging artificial intelligence to help optimize product pricing, the company told CNBC exclusively, as the tricky-to-price thrift segment gains traction around the world. The new platform, called ThriftIQ, uses AI to reduce the work needed to price items across the men’s and women’s apparel assortment […]
American Airlines will stop upgrading some flyers on long flights
Business News An American Airlines Boeing 737-823 passneger aircraft moves along the tarmac at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) on August 23, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Daniel Slim | AFP | Getty Images American Airlines elite frequent flyers have to say goodbye to the free coach-to-business leap on several long-haul domestic routes. Starting Aug. 25, […]
New players are shaking up the memory industry, but even Apple can’t strong-arm the RAM crisis for your wallet
Digital Trends Apple can usually make suppliers bend the knee. It buys components in volumes few consumer technology brands can match and has built a supply chain that rivals spend decades trying to copy. However, that leverage has now run into a memory manufacturer willing to say no. Apple reportedly approached China’s CXMT as an […]
Amanda Knox defends Fringe comedy show after claims it will ‘trivialise violence’
BBC News Amanda Knox, who was convicted and later acquitted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, has defended her solo comedy show following calls for it to be cancelled. The sold-out show called Cartwheel, which Knox will perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, discusses motherhood and how she will explain the […]
Thousands of rail passengers hit by power failure disruption
BBC News Alexander posted on X, external she was “sorry to hear passengers in the North West are affected by a power outage, with trains cancelled or delayed”. Manchester Rail Operating Centre was opened in July 2014 and houses all the controls to safely operate the railway in the region, including signalling. According to Network […]
Women’s Super League: St Helens 6-44 Wigan Warriors – Wigan hammer Saints
BBC News Betfred Women’s Super League St Helens (6) 6 Tries: McColm Goals: Gaskin Wigan (22) 44 Tries: Derbyshire 2, Hunter 2, Davies, M Jones, Wilton, Foubister, Coleman Goals: Rowe 4 Wigan Warriors maintained their 100% record in 2026 as they comfortably saw off rivals St Helens in the first match of the new Super […]
Israel charges settler over killing of Palestinian involved in Oscar-winning West Bank film
BBC News Israeli prosecutors have charged a settler over the killing of a Palestinian activist in the occupied West Bank who helped film Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. Yinon Levy was charged with reckless manslaughter over the July 2025 shooting of Odeh Hathaleen, according to Israel’s Southern District Prosecutor’s Office. Israeli rights group B’Tselem said […]
First OpenAI, now Meta – why do AI hacks keep happening?
BBC News It is unlikely Meta will be the last to emerge with findings of models showing they have, as Prof Woodward puts it, “gone to school” – and learnt our own ways of finding and exploiting gaps in systems. For some, these episodes point to clear security failures on the part of AI companies […]
Is Gianni Infantino still backed by the African football federations?
BBC News The Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture of South Africa, Gayton McKenzie, posted on X saying that Infantino had been “very good to African football”. “Africa should be cautious in joining the public lynching of Infantino. He has been very good to African football. “We can debate his ideas but let’s not forget […]