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The UK firm hoping to take on Google’s driverless cars BBC NewsTech giants are spending a fortune on autonomous vehicles, but a small UK rival wants to try to compete. View the full article

Uber drivers will strike tomorrow for 24 hours in London, Birmingham and Nottingham Mirror OnlineThe Independent Works Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is arguing drivers at the ride-hailing app should be reclassified under UK law. View the full article

BBC News The British firm hoping to take on Google's driverless cars BBC News By contrast, Five AI has so far received investment of only £29m ($38m). And when it comes to number of employees, Google's autonomous vehicle business Waymo is estimated to have some 3,500, and Uber's self-driving arm is said to have about 2,000. View the full article

BBC News The UK firm hoping to take on Google's driverless cars BBC News ... Uber a couple of thousand, it really all comes down to just a handful of individuals. "And the talent in computer vision and machine learning here in Europe is as strong as in the US." Based across six offices in the UK - London, Bristol, Cambridge ... View the full article

Uber driver 'vomit fraud' sees customers wrongly charged £110 cleaning Telegraph.co.ukUber drivers have been accused of spraying liquid over the back seats of their cars in order to charge customers unwarranted cleaning fees. View the full article

The Cool List: Cafes HeraldScotlandWhether it's a greasy spoon for your all-day breakfast or a big settee, a big mug and a pretty pattern on top of your flat white in a rentakit coffee shop, cafes are ... View the full article

HeraldScotland The Cool List: Cafes HeraldScotland Edinburgh's uber-hip Ronde is just one example, but this Inverness venture was among the first. Founded in 2012 as an outdoors-based social enterprise project aiming to promote the health benefits of cycling, Velocity now has its own premises where ... View the full article

HeraldScotland The Cool List: Cafes HeraldScotland Whether it's a greasy spoon for your all-day breakfast or a big settee, a big mug and a pretty pattern on top of your flat white in a rentakit coffee shop, cafes are ten a penny across the country. But what if you want something different? What if you ... View the full article

Uber drivers protest low pay, as bosses pit them vs. taxi drivers The MilitantView the full article

Spectator.co.uk 2018 finalists lunch – Scotland and Northern Ireland Spectator.co.uk ... Piedmontese cows, an uber-muscular breed of cow, housed in so-called 'cow palaces' and fed with this fodder. It is also these cows that provide the raw biogas that is used to transform into fuel. It was a stimulating few hours in the Edinburgh ... View the full article

bluewin.ch Darum ist diese Whiskyflasche über eine Million Franken wert bluewin.ch Eine 60 Jahre alte Flasche Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 wurde am Mittwoch in Edinburgh für 848'750 Pfund, umgerechnet 1,1 Millionen Franken, verkauft. Eine Flasche aus demselben Fass war im Mai in Hongkong für rund 814'000 Pfund verkauft worden. Whisky Flasche für über eine Million Franken versteigertNau.ch Rekordpreis für Whiskey bei AuktionStuttgarter Zeitung Wenn der Whisky fast eine Million Euro kostetFAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung all 153 news articles » View the full article

UberEats and Deliveroo Couriers Strike Over Low Pay CommonSpaceOn the 4th October, Ubereats and Deliveroo couriers across the UK went on strike in cities across the UK, including Glasgow. In Glasgow, couriers gathered on ... View the full article

Glasgow Uber, McDonald's and Deliveroo workers to strike today over pay Daily RecordGlasgow's hospitality workers, couriers and cab drivers will join a day of action today, including strikes, in separate disputes over pay and union recognition. View the full article

The Independent Uber Eats and Deliveroo riders to strike alongside McDonald's ... The Independent Riders for Deliveroo and Uber Eats are joining forces with staff at McDonald's, Wetherspoon's and TGI Fridays to stage coordinated strikes on Thursday. and more » View the full article

Radio Times Meet Apprentice 2018 candidate Sabrina Stocker: “a mix of Willy Wonka drinking an espresso martini” Radio Times Despite being only 22, Apprentice candidate Sabrina Stocker has a well-established career in business. While completing a MBA at Edinburgh's Herriot-Watt University, keen tennis player Sabrina launched her own company My Tennis Events two years ago ... View the full article

pharmaphorum UK government gives millions to boost digital health innovation pharmaphorum The projects are based across the country, in places as diverse as Cumbria, Devon, London and Edinburgh. The funding, through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund managed by UK Research and Innovation, will ... Navenio Ltd, working with the ... View the full article

Google is still chasing the self-driving engineer that jumped ship to Uber The RegisterIf you thought the monster battle between Google and Uber over alleged theft of its self-driving technology was over, you'd be wrong. The two companies were ... View the full article

Uber Eats and Deliveroo riders to strike alongside McDonald's, Wetherspoons and TGI Fridays employees The IndependentRiders for Deliveroo and Uber Eats are joining forces with staff at McDonald's, Wetherspoon's and TGI Fridays to stage coordinated strikes on Thursday. View the full article

Half of US Uber drivers make less than $10 an hour, new study claims Daily MailRidester's survery found that the median Uber hourly pay with tip is $14.73 an hour. It estimates that Uber drivers spend around $5 an hour just on their vehicle ... View the full article

Uber driver catches wife having affair after being hired to drive her to hotel with lover Mirror OnlineThe married woman had managed to keep the affair a secret for over a year before ordering the Uber. View the full article

Edinburgh pushes for a citywide network of electric vehicle charging points Intelligent TransportEdinburgh is the first city in the UK to put forward such an ambitious and comprehensive electric vehicle infrastructure business case. View the full article

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WalesOnline The 8 most genuinely impressive things Welsh rugby players have done in the past 31 days WalesOnline We are a month into the new season and already some Welsh players have done some pretty impressive things on the field. Whether it's a incredible scoring streak, a match-winning contribution or a simply sensational try, these moments certainly deserve ... View the full article

Shocking moment an Uber passenger attacks her female driver with TACOS Daily MailMaria Chavez, from Midland in Texas, captured the drunk woman as she threw food in her face on her car's CCTV camera. Ms Chavez released the footage in ... View the full article

Delivery riders to join strike over ‘dangerously poor’ pay The ScotsmanBike couriers working for Uber Eats are set to stage an all-day strike in Scotland this week amid complaints over pay, which they claim is often under minimum ... View the full article