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TomTom partners Microsoft to create AI-based assistant for vehicles

The Punch 

The leading provider of digital mapping, TomTom, announced on Tuesday that it has teamed up with Microsoft to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) driven conversational assistant for cars. According to the company, the assistant will let users “converse naturally with their vehicles” and provide voice interaction for infotainment, location search, and car command systems. The

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Suspended MP mimics Dhankhar, Rahul Gandhi records; VP calls it "unacceptable"

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

Trinamool Congress' suspended MP Kalyan Banerjee engaged in a mimicry act imitating Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar during an opposition protest. In an impromptu skit, Banerjee, surrounded by other MPs, mimicked Dhankhar, saying, "My spine is so straight, I'm so tall," while Rahul Gandhi recorded the incident on his phone.



The Princess of the pool

Cyprus Mail 

In one of the island’s first Paralympians, Melissa Hekkers finds a woman with a love of water who has used her success to fight for acceptance as she looks forward to taking part in her fifth Games   “One of the main reasons that convinced me to get into the...

'Tombstone' hats remind whirling dervishes of their death

France24.com (en) 

In Konya, a sprawling city in Turkey's central Anatolian plain where Rumi spent most of his life and died 750 years ago, one of the last workshops makes these special "sikke" hats to order. Yunus Girgic refuses to sell sikkes to tourists because they are exclusively reserved for real dervish dancers. And he makes sure they do not reach amateurs' hands, quizzing potential clients about their motives for wanting the distinctive hat. "I ask a few basic questions and immediately see who I am dealing with," Girgic told AFP. Читать дальше...

Pilot programme for domestic renewal of H-1B visa clears White House review

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

A pilot programme to resume domestic visa renewal for qualified H-1B visa applicants has cleared a review by the office of information and regulatory affairs (OIRA) under the White House. The programme, which will benefit many Indian technology professionals already in the US, allows qualified H-1B visa applicants to renew their work visa without traveling abroad. This pilot programme, initially limited to 20,000 participants, was announced during the state visit of prime minister Narendra Modi in June.

Vintage Ikea goes high-end at auction

BangkokPost.com 

STOCKHOLM - At a chic Stockholm auction house, 122 carefully curated items with unusual provenance went under the hammer on Monday evening: vintage furnishings from the flatpack furniture retailer Ikea were sold for a total of 37,000 euros ($40,000).

Google to pay $700m in US antitrust settlement

BangkokPost.com 

SAN FRANCISCO - Google parent Alphabet has agreed to pay $700 million as part of an antitrust settlement made public on Monday, with the funds going to US customers of its Android app store and state governments.

Politics latest news: Labour's election chances highest since Truss quit, public believe - The Telegraph

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  1. Politics latest news: Labour's election chances highest since Truss quit, public believe  The Telegraph
  2. Esther McVey has a tough task bringing back common sense – it's been made redundant  The Telegraph
  3. 'Minister for Common Sense' to look at use of equality and diversity consultants  The Independent
  4. Equality Act has 'put wokery into legislative form' and should be scrapped, says Jacob Rees-Mogg  GB News
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'Tombstone' hats remind dervishes of mortality

BangkokPost.com 

KONYA, Turkey - The tall light brown hats worn by whirling dervishes are as intriguing as the elliptical dance performed in honour of the Sufi poet and mystic Rumi.





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