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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI interior design, coconut & lemon insulation & punchbags that fight back

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI interior design, coconut & lemon insulation & punchbags that fight back
Tech obsessive Steve Caplin demonstrates to Simon Rose just how impressive text-to-speech has become and why AI should really be AGI. There's the UK's first self-driving bus, why cars with damaged batteries must be scrapped, Paris banning e-scooters, AI suggesting how your home can be redecorated, the noises plants make if they are stressed, how you can insulate your home with coconut & lemon and a crowdfunded punchbag – that fights back.
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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: What lessons should we learn from banking problems?

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: What lessons should we learn from banking problems?
Russ Mould of A J Bell finds it curious that central bankers are not looking in the mirror, but blaming social media and older people for recent problems, given that an excess of cheap money is at the root of so much that has gone wong. He believes there will still be reckonings to come in some areas and that the chances of a recession in the US have increased. UK investors, though, should concentrate on value and ignore short-term static. Don't be influenced by the mistakes of others.
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Russ Mould

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The Business of Film: John Wick Chapter 4, 80 for Brady & A Good Person

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: John Wick Chapter 4, 80 for Brady & A Good Person
James Cameron-Wilson takes Simon Rose through the UK box office chart, which has picked up thanks to the arrival of John Wick: Chapter Four at #1. Almost 3 hours long, James though it assassin porn, repetitive and exhausting. He found 80 for Brady (#8) a major embarrassment for Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno & Sally Field. He adored Zach Braff's A Good Person with Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman but it only debuted at #18. Fans of Life of Brian should note a re-release on April 7.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: AI websites, powdered beer, 3D cheesecake & smart socks

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: AI websites, powdered beer, 3D cheesecake & smart socks
Steve Caplin uses AI to build a website in just 30 seconds but 1,000 AI experts have called for a halt to the AI race. German monks have made the world's first powdered beer, there's a 3D-printed cheesecake (with no cheese), a 3D-printed rocket, carbon-negative concrete, an amazing glamping RV, superb paint-matching for next to nothing, smart socks for old people and airbags for motorcyclists.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: Johnson & Partygate, Sunak's good fortnight & the SNP's new leader

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Johnson & Partygate, Sunak's good fortnight & the SNP's new leader
Political commentator Mike Indian considers Boris Johnson's Partygate evidence and wonders if will be the end of the ex-PM's political career. He explains why he feels Rishi Sunak has had a good fortnight with his more pragmatic approach to the country's problems. And, while he believes the SNP leadership result will benefit Labour, he wonders if it will be enough.
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Mike Indian

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The BoE raises interest rates for the 11th time in a row

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The BoE raises interest rates for the 11th time in a row
Victoria Scholar of Interactive Investor discusses the MPC's decision to raise interest rates 25 basis points to 4.25%, although there were 2 votes against the move. With inflation ticking up again, the Bank is clearly still concerned about how far CPI is above its 2% target, maintaining that the UK banking system is robust, despite problems in the US and Switzerland. While savers may cheer rising rates, Victoria points out that inflation is still well above savings rates, so there's a negative real return.
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Victoria Scholar

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The Bigger Picture: The Met needs reform, public debt is out of control & Winnie the Pooh threatens Xi Jinping

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: The Met needs reform, public debt is out of control & Winnie the Pooh threatens Xi Jinping
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University says that the problems with the Metropolitan Police seem to get ever worse and that it needs root-and-branch reform, while vetting needs to be improved and standardised. With UK Government debt interest payments of £7bn a month, he asks how bad things have to get before politicians here – and elsewhere – realise the system needs a refresh. And he can't help finding it amusing that Winnie the Pooh is seen as such a threat to Xi Jinping that a film involving him has been banned in Hong Kong.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Allelujah, Rye Lane & Other People's Children

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Allelujah, Rye Lane & Other People's Children
James Cameron-Wilson takes Simon Rose through the box office charts, dismissing new #1 Shazam! Fury of the Gods as lacking suspense or laughs. However, he waxed lyrical about the Alan Bennett adaptation Allelujah at #4 ("the feel-sad movie of the year"), with Judi Dench & Derek Jacobi in a story about old age and the NHS. He was even more taken with love story Rye Lane at #7 which he found funny & exhilarating, a debut which excited him in the way Trainspotting had. In few cinemas but on Apple+ is French drama Other People's Children, which James adored, thinking it moving and involving.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: A reactor on the moon, bricks on Mars, AI on your PC & a batteryless doorbell

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Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets & Gizmos: A reactor on the moon, bricks on Mars, AI on your PC & a batteryless doorbell
Steve Caplin takes Simon Rose through the latest tech. Samsung's phone takes amazing moon photos (by cheating), the UK is to put a nuclear reactor on the moon, NASA unveils its new spacesuit (disguised), Stanford develop AI for your own PC and AI can now create photos. There's a fortified plastic chicken coop to keep out foxes (that looks like an animal prison) and Lidl are selling a wireless doorbell that is entirely battery free.
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Steve Caplin

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The UK Budget & market nervousness over the banks

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: The UK Budget & market nervousness over the banks
Russ Mould of A JBell thinks Jeremy Hunt delivering the Budget did his best with a weak hand. Essentially, there is no money when the national interest bill is £100bn. Market nervousness about contagion from SVB and Credit Suisse Russ puts down to money being cheap for far too long. It has meant that too many people have done risky, silly things. Nervous investors should remember the basics, sticking to disciplined companies with sound management. He also wonders if 5% is the new 17%.
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Russ Mould

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