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People living on canal boats in London say they are being priced off the waterways by rising mooring fees. Some have been asked to pay increases that are higher than the total council tax bill for homeowners in the same area.
It is strange how people don't really think about advertising. As something that touches our lives every day, you would imagine more of us would take a moment to think about how and by whom it is created.
Archant Rob Star started working in the entertainment industry when he wasn't even legally allowed in clubs. The co-founder of hipster street food spot Last Days of Shoreditch, which closes for good this weekend, started out organising parties for him and his friends when he was 16.
The moment I moved to the UK five years ago, people started describing me with a word that I couldn't even properly translate into Italian: posh. When I was at school studying English, I learnt that posh could mean snob, or chic and elegant. There isn't, however, a perfect equivalent of the word in my language.
Researchers have managed to hide this message in an audio clip that is detectable by smart devices like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant, but not by the human ear. A study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, has demonstrated that the command can be embedded directly into a voice recording that, to the listener, sounds like "without the dataset the article is useless."
TV package for City International News, October 2017. With: Valentina Cipriani Posted in Portfolio, Uncategorized Made in Italy. Adopted by London. In any case, all-round European. Obsessed with politics, political communication and travel. I'm a journalist in the making and a subeditor at heart. Fact-checking is my drug.