Martin Williams on his favourite Toast the City venues
Fast forward to today and I am the CEO of the Evolv Collection, overseeing 33 venues, nine of which are in the Square Mile. It’s fair to say I love running restaurants in the heart of London. So when it comes to…
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Discord ordered to suspend livestreams in Brazil
The messaging service allows people to create and join groups based on their interests, with users able to enter voice or video calls in real time through Discord's "Go Live" feature. The investigation by the ANPD began…
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US inflation eases as food and fuel costs cool
Energy remained volatile as the Middle East conflict has continued. While gasoline prices were down 2.9% in July compared to June, they were up 24.6% over the year. Month to month, inflation rose 0.1%, mainly due to an…
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Great Britain braced to pay millions for backup electricity during solar eclipse
The government's electricity grid operator is expected to make multimillion-pound payments to secure electricity at short notice before the moon blocks up to 95% of the sun over parts of the country, the most dramatic…
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Burnham’s devolution drive could ‘push 90,000 jobs out of London’
Legal, banking and accounting firms could be among those to shift thousands of jobs away from the capital in a bid to capitalise on the Prime Minister’s agenda and take advantage of cheaper office space and employment…
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‘Absurd’: Government seeks quantum tech chief – no experience necessary
A job advert for a deputy head of the Office for Quantum published on Tuesday says the successful candidate could oversee the rollout of the UK’s national quantum programme, help shape the purchase of large-scale quantum…
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London IPO candidate Utmost sees inflows slide
Utmost, owned by private equity firms Oaktree Capital and Brookfield, recorded £4.4bn of inflows in the first half of the year, down from £5.3bn the prior year. The group pinned the decline on a slowdown in activity…
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Aston Villa commercial status a tonic for Premier League in big-spending era
Amidst much of the doom and gloom that surrounds the Premier league and its inevitable collapse into monotony under the financial suffocation of the ‘Big Six’ – no better represented than the trolley dash on talent…
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Spotify to add label for AI-generated artists and remove them from recommendations
The streaming service says the AI Persona badge, which will start appearing on some profiles from mid-September, will flag to listeners if an "artist's identity may be AI-generated and does not represent a real person".…
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Everyone’s welcome: The UK holiday cottages that are truly inclusive
At Wallops Wood, it’s all about stress-free simplicity: sit in the garden hot-tub watching kites circle above the tree line, or take lunch in the large private grounds. Indoors in the off season, play games around a…
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