New service robots welcome visitors at the international travel fair in Berlin and could soon be the face of the check-in desk at international hotels. Ivor Bennett reports on how the latest wave of disruptive technology is affecting the travel industry. Video Transcript: It's not exactly service with a smile. But not the attitude either. "Discover 50 exciting travel stories in our new book 'From Berlin with Love.'" This is Chihira Kanae, Toshiba's vision of check-in desks of the future.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake hit northeastern Japan which spawned a tsunami that left about 18,500 dead or missing and sparked the worst nuclear disaster in a quarter century.
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The possible repatriation of a controversially jailed Ukrainian film maker raises hopes of a prisoner exchange for other high-profile detainees, including army pilot Nadia Savchenko
The possible repatriation of a controversially jailed Ukrainian film maker raises hopes of a prisoner exchange for other high-profile detainees, including army pilot Nadia Savchenko
How to avoid being stung by the GST tax.
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The committee had stated that the area has been cleared of all natural vegetation and the event would leave a "permanent footprint" on the floodplains of the Yamuna.
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If you earned more, you'd save more, right?
Probably not, says Patrice C. Washington.
Washington, the author of "Real Money Answers for Every Woman: How to Win the Money Game With or Without a Man," explains that thinking you'll start saving when your income grows is a common "money lie" people tell themselves.
She says that looking at entertainers, athletes, and celebrities who have had millions "pass through their fingers" should make... Читать дальше...
MIAMI (AP) — A field trial releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys would not harm humans or the environment, according to documents released Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
MIAMI (AP) — A field trial releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys would not harm humans or the environment, according to documents released Friday by the U.S. Food and D…
Tyler Perry’s 34th Street Films has teamed with a group of producers including Doug Liman to mount The Year of the Great Storm, a racially charged murder tale that occurred during the height of Apartheid in South Africa.
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There are no shortage of ways to shop nowadays, but soon you could have one more way: Snapchat.
Retailers have been trying to reach customers in creative and engaging ways, and the latest trend is to use Snapchat to do that. But the way in which this process would work actually runs counter to the way Snapchat was designed to be used. Читать дальше...
As you doubtless have realized by now, the questions that ended Part 1 of this series have never been answered in 25 centuries of Western philosophy. They undermined the appeal-to-authority argument like acid eating away at the foundations of an ethnocentric view of the world.
Naturally, this hasn't stopped anyone from appealing to authority as a reason for believing something, or deterred others from employing this fallacy whenever they could. However, cultural relativity is only one way of exposing this fallacy. Читать дальше...
DoT provided set-off of Rs 1,658.57 crore to Telenor, Rs 1,626.32 crore to Sistema Shyam, Rs 1,506.82 crore to Videocon and Rs 684.59 crore to Idea Cellular.
According to the Greenbergs, their car originally was painted Everglades red. Outstanding luxurious touches abound on every part of the Chrysler from the chrome stone guard that protects the radiator and the Tripp lights at the front of the car to the steamer trunk at the rear, which is mounted on a collapsible rack between the two tail/brake lights. The latest improvements, which were available in 1933, are on the Chrysler including four-wheel hydraulic brakes and a second windshield along with... Читать дальше...
He's best known as Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon a Time, and his career-defining roles in Trainspotting and The Full Monty. The film and television projects actor/director Robert Carlyle leans toward often include shady, slightly despicable characters. In his latest role, the film Barney Thompson, in which Carlyle both stars in and directs, the shady despicable character trend continues.
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Moody's will stop issuing domestic ratings for Russian companies to avoid being caught in a legal crossfire between Moscow and the West.
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Thirteen fishermen from Myanmar testified they had been tortured, forced to work up to 24 hours a day and were locked in a prison-like cell
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After a month of rumors and innuendo about the dismissal of former Yale men's basketball captain Jack Montague, multiple sources now say he was expelled because of a sexual-misconduct accusation.
Still, there are few details about why Montague was expelled, in part because federal privacy law for students prevents Yale from speaking about the case.
We do know that the allegations against Montague were heard by the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct. Читать дальше...
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