Wild scenes as Potters Bar score 101st minute equaliser
Non-league Chichester City – the lowest ranked club in the FA Cup – received a bye to the second round following Bury’s removal from the competition.
Chichester, seventh in the eighth-tier Isthmian League South East Division, were the final club left in the pot at the end of Monday’s first-round draw and receive £36,000 in prize money.
The winners of Tuesday’s fourth qualifying round replay between Poole Town and Hayes & Yeading will host League One Oxford United.
National League South teams Chippenham Town and Dulwich Hamlet host League Two Northampton Town and Carlisle United respectively.
Nine non-league teams are guaranteed a place in the next round, where they will be one win away from a potential tie with a Premier League club in the third round.
Chichester entered this season’s FA Cup at the extra preliminary round stage.
Having played their first tie in the competition on 10 August, they have earned £82,390 in prize money from their run.
FA Cup first round draw
Ipswich Town v Lincoln City
Oxford City v Solihull Moors
Crawley Town v Scunthorpe United
Harrogate Town v Portsmouth
Colchester United v Coventry City
Sunderland v Gillingham
Dulwich Hamlet v Carlisle United
Bolton Wanderers v Plymouth
York City v Altrincham
Chesterfield/Wrexham v Rochdale
Maidstone United v Torquay United
Leyton Orient v Maldon & Tiptree
Chippenham Town v Northampton Town
Haringey Borough/Yeovil v Hartlepool
Cambridge United v Exeter City
Whitby Town/Stourbridge v Welling United/Eastleigh
WeWork tenants received an email Monday morning informing them of “potentially elevated levels of formaldehyde” in phone booths throughout WeWork offices in the US and Canada.
The email, obtained by Business Insider, said WeWork was pulling 1,600 phone booths from locations that “may be impacted,” in addition to 700 booths that have yet to be tested for formaldehyde.
Formaldehyde is a toxic chemical used primarily as a sealing agent in particleboard and wood products. When people are exposed to high levels of the chemical, they can experience eye, nose, and throat irritation, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
WeWork said in the email that it had received some complaints of “odor and eye irritation.”
In a statement to Business Insider, a WeWork representative confirmed the contents of the email and said WeWork took action to remove the phone booths as soon as tests for high levels of formaldehyde came back positive late last week.
One WeWork tenant told Business Insider she noticed a pungent smell in the phone booths at WeWork’s Rosslyn location in Arlington, Virginia.
“I always noticed, from the first time I entered a phone booth, a strong chemical odor,” the tenant said in a Twitter DM. “I assumed it was a new building / equipment type smell. Kind of like glue or a new car.”
Other WeWork tenants voiced exasperation on Twitter on Monday morning.
The high levels of formaldehyde were caused by the manufacturer of the phone booths, the WeWork representative said.
This is the latest incident for WeWork after a difficult few months. The company faced crushing scrutiny after the paperwork it filed in August for an initial public offering showed a questionable path to profitability. And reports detailed the bizarre workplace antics of CEO Adam Neumann, like serving employees tequila shots after discussing layoffs and smoking weed on a company jet.
WeWork and Neumann lost the support of investors in the month that followed, and the company’s valuation dropped by more than 50%. WeWork delayed its IPO on September 17, and Neumann stepped down on September 24.
The brand-new MicrosoftSurface Pro X is a cutting-edge, super-slim tablet/laptop hybrid with an innovative chip that affords it a long, 13-hour battery life while running Windows 10. And it doesn’t have a headphone jack.
It’s the first laptop in recent memory that doesn’t come with the familiar 3.5mm hole on its side where you can plug in your trusty wired headphones.
Microsoft has wireless headphones you can use, including the Surface Headphones and brand-new Surface Buds, but there are better options out there.
The company has its own $12 USB-C to headphone jack dongle for those who simply can’t part with their wired headphones.
First it was Apple that ditched the headphone jack. Then it was almost every Android phone. Laptops appeared safe, though. Even Apple’s USB-C-only MacBook Pros have headphone jacks, despite the company’s apparent distaste for them.
But now, it’s Microsoft casting the first stone against headphone jacks on laptops.
The new Microsoft Surface Pro X is a cutting-edge, super-slim tablet/laptop hybrid with an innovative chip that affords it a long 13-hour battery life. And it doesn’t have a headphone jack.
For some, this will be totally fine. Either you’ve already moved onto wireless Bluetooth headphones before the headphone jack massacre, or you made the move since buying a smartphone that doesn’t feature a headphone jack.
For others, Microsoft is setting a precedent that future laptops won’t include a headphone jack — and other laptop makers may follow suit.
Microsoft didn’t ditch the headphone jack on Surface Pro X without giving you some wireless alternatives. There’s the Surface Headphones, and on Wednesday, Microsoft announced its new Surface Buds, too. Still, both models are pretty expensive at $350 and $250, respectively.
But, if you absolutely want to stick to your wired headphones, Microsoft has you covered: The company also made its very own USB-C to headphone jack dongle! It’s $12.
To be sure, almost every other laptop has a headphone jack. The Surface Pro X isn’t your only laptop option. I’d personally recommend the Lenovo 7th-generation X1 Carbon to anyone who wants great performance, ultra-light portability in a sleek, classic shell. But the future of the wired headphone is looking gloomier every year as more and more devices ditch the 3.5mm hole on the sides of your devices.
Elon Musk regularly switches to a new phone and sometimes destroys his old phone for security reasons, a Monday legal filing said.
The filing included a signed statement from a SpaceX information-technology employee dated October 1.
“For security purposes, Mr. Musk regularly changes his cellular device, at which time his old device is imaged, wiped clean, and stored or destroyed,” the statement said.
The filing is part of a lawsuit brought by the British diver Vernon Unsworth against Musk claiming defamation after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO called him a “pedo guy” on Twitter last year.
“Mr. Musk updates his phone (like lots of other people) and Mr. Musk occasionally has to change his phone for reasons that have to do with security and sensitive information,” Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, told Business Insider.
“For security purposes, Mr. Musk regularly changes his cellular device, at which time his old device is imaged, wiped clean, and stored or destroyed,” the statement said.
The filing is part of a lawsuit brought by the British diver Vernon Unsworth against Musk claiming defamation after the Tesla and SpaceX CEO called him a “pedo guy” on Twitter last year. (Musk later apologized to Unsworth and deleted the tweet.)
Musk’s tweet followed an interview in which Unsworth, who was involved in last year’s rescue of a youth soccer team and its coach from a cave in Thailand, said the miniature submarine Musk sent to Thailand to help with the rescue would have been ineffective and was merely a publicity stunt.
“Mr. Musk updates his phone (like lots of other people) and Mr. Musk occasionally has to change his phone for reasons that have to do with security and sensitive information,” Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, told Business Insider.
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“My nipples are like the teats of a rain-god,” the writer Mary Shelley (1797-1851) declares on the third page of Jeanette Winterson’s new novel, “Frankissstein.” This is perhaps not a typical way to begin a book review. This is not a typical novel.
One knows it isn’t typical right away, with its epigraph. Not enough study has been put into the quotations at the fronts of novels. Typically, in literary fiction, epigraphs are gloomy, perhaps some Hannah Arendt or Robert Oppenheimer or Nietzsche. These sentences will often be followed with a lyric from Radiohead or P.J. Harvey or a similar act, to demonstrate that the author is down with the Coachella and Glastonbury masses. Sometimes there will be a terse, final, so-dumb-it’s-smart snippet from someone like Lorena Bobbitt or the Big Bopper or PewDiePie, to cut the funk like smelling salts.
The sole epigraph in “Frankissstein” is from the Eagles. No one quotes the Eagles. The line Winterson has selected, “We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again,” is from “Take It Easy.” Poke fun if you will. (I was prepared.) Those 14 words are, on reconsideration, nearly as profound as anything attributed to Confucius or Gandhi. And they rhyme.
So far, so weird. You begin reading “Frankissstein” picturing a monster with bolts in its neck (the Eagles) and those thoughts mix with your sense of Shelley’s Gothic novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” published in 1818. Once those things have been mentally stitched together — not that the Eagles play much more of a role here — a writer can go anywhere. Winterson does. In this novel, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, she walks her wits on a very long leash.
[ “Frankissstein” was one of our most anticipated titles of October. See the full list. ]
“Frankissstein” relates two mirrored stories. One begins in 1816, when the teenage Shelley was living in the Alps with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and others. It was there that she was inspired to write her novel about a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who creates an intelligent if ill-favored creature in a mad experiment.
The other story, set in the time of Brexit, is about Ry Shelley, a trans doctor (Ry is short for Mary), who falls in love with a Botoxed, TED-talking professor named Victor Stein. Victor is an expert in artificial intelligence who’s conducting some underground experiments of his own. Hairy little disembodied human hands run around his laboratory, as if they were tarantulas. Ry sometimes sources human parts for him. “Maybe being a bodysnatcher is bad for my joie de vivre,” he thinks.
Along the way Ry and Victor meet not a Byron but a Lord, Ron Lord, who manufactures concierge-level sex dolls for lonely men. Ron’s an idiot, he’s gross, he’s an amuse-douche, but his dolls, like the gun on the wall in a Chekhov play, are never far from anyone’s mind. Sometimes one pops to life and starts dirty-talking and calling for “Daddy” at the wrong time.
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Jeanette Winterson, whose latest novel, “Frankissstein,” was longlisted for the Booker Prize.CreditLily Richards
Among Ron’s company’s offerings is a braless, messy-headed, 1970s-themed sex doll called the Germaine, seemingly after Germaine Greer. There is quite a lot of information in “Frankissstein” about things like intelligent vibrators and teledildonics. There is dark speculation about, for example, how sexbots might spare a generation of altar boys.
“Frankissstein” is not a particularly good novel, if we limit our definition of a good novel to one that, at minimum, has characters and/or a plot in which one feels invested. Winterson seems to know she’s boxed herself into a facile and jokey situation, and she’s decided to shoot herself out of the corner. This novel is talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy. You begin to linger on those three s’s when you speak the title aloud.
“Frankissstein” also has, if you squint just slightly, an intelligent soul. Winterson has always been interested in gender fluidity and there is room, in our glimpses of Ry, for real feeling between the satire and bickering.
Ian McEwan published his robot-sex novel, “Machines Like Us,” earlier this year. (A male robot’s breath, in bed, smelled like “the back of a warm TV set.”) The Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi updated Shelley’s novel with dark grace in “Frankenstein in Baghdad,” published in English last year. It’s about a man who collects body parts after car bombs detonate, and then gets out his needle and thread.
Winterson is playing a game that’s entirely her own. The fourth wall is broken frequently, as if this were an episode of “Fleabag.” After one bit of dialogue from Claire Clairmont, Mary’s stepsister, there’s an author’s note in all caps that reads: “This is the most profound thing Claire has said in her life.”
As the jokes and bon mots and aphorisms (“Love is a disturbance among the disturbed,” “Human beings can’t share. We can’t even share free bicycles”) fly past, the book is anchored in soliloquies that wear their intent and erudition lightly.
In our robotic future, Victor says, “Humans will be like decayed gentry. We’ll have the glorious mansion called the past that is falling into disrepair. We’ll have a piece of land that we didn’t look after very well called the planet. And we’ll have some nice clothes and a lot of stories. We’ll be fading aristocracy. We’ll be Blanche Dubois in a moth-eaten silk dress. We’ll be Marie Antoinette with no cake.”
“Frankissstein” has its grayer moments, especially in the sometimes draggy metaphysical conversations between the Shelleys and Byron. These scenes are short.
If sex dolls are on humanity’s horizon, Winterson reminds us with one of her chapter titles (“Looking for a lover who won’t blow my cover”) that there’s an Eagles lyric for that, too.
What does it take to make the university the best learning experience in the lifecycle of one’s education? Higher education is all about developing skills, exploring new theories, and applying them to the actualities of real life. Throughout this journey, students are encouraged to stay on top of their workload, study, and complete assessments all while simultaneously leading a healthy, active, and balanced social life.
Existing Fractures in the University Structure
The essential materials relied on at university include books, books, and more books. As we move into an age of digitalization of practically everything, there is a reason to believe that the existing higher education model should too be digitalized to allow for an enhanced university experience.
The existing model of higher education looks something along the following lines.
Based on a one-module-fits-all curriculum, where students are all expected to learn the same thing in the confines of a classroom, they will then be assessed by examinations based on rigid criteria to determine a pass or fail. These intrinsic features of the education system do little to contribute to an enhanced learning experience. Instead, prospects for development under the current model seems to have come to a halt.
The World around us moves closer to an entirely digitalized World.
Having the entire World become digitalized is essential as little else could be more detrimental to the future than our young minds being taught in obsolete ways. Artificial intelligence has disrupted almost every industry. The AI market is expected to generate $3 trillion in revenue by 2024.
Based on a 2018 report assessing the expected impact of AI and machine learning on a selection of domains worldwide, only 3% of respondents believed that AI would not affect society in general within two years (Statista).
The ability of intelligent machines to perform highly sophisticated and specific tasks without explicit human input should not be overlooked in the higher education sector.
Artificial Intelligence Technological Solutions
AI’s ability to make recommendations and produce answers based on patterns and inferences is precisely what humans cannot do on a mass scale – and precisely what our existing university structure demands.
University 20.35, (https://2035.university/en/), introduces the first university model that provides opportunities for professional development by creating individual educational trajectories and tracking digital skill profiles using artificial intelligence.
The use of digital footprints, which the platform collects during educational processes measures and analyses the students’ skills. Then, it confirms or refutes whether a trajectory module teacher can efficiently transfer skills to the students.
The network of organizations and digital platforms.
The use of AI here is of great revelation. It’s currently being implemented in personal educational trajectories development. In other words, the collection of Big Data on a student’s educational and professional background, combined with his/her digital footprint allows the intelligent machine to suggest the best development path.
A large part of university learning takes place within labs and lecture theatres.
If there’s one thing that makes studying at university better, it has everything you need to learn, study, and research wherever the student may be. Whether studying, learning or research takes place on the go or from home can be the students’ choice. Through a combination of online and offline education, artificial intelligence allows students to study where and when they want.
Using whichever platform they prefer or need, makes learning more accessible to everyone. The learning, in turn, lends to the prospects of AI for future students. It may mean that the use of mobile devices and online data collection increases.
This shift way from popular book learning towards smart devices contributes to the mass data we collect as a population. More data essentially means more information and better AI developed models.
We think of the most enhanced environments for learning.
We might conjure up images in our heads of groups of students studying together, in an attempt to improve their existing skills and fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Before the introduction of AI, this image of students was the only one conceivable, but it’s not the most effective.
AI, through the collection and analysis of digital footprints, allows for the creation of each students’ digital twin. Digital twins are essentially the digital replica of physical assets, i.e., the physical twin or the replica is of the student.
This accurate and near to real-time data based on digital footprint as well as some biological data can help to establish better solutions for students. This includes the biological of the surroundings as well as personal biolgical data. The application of the digital twin in higher education has the potential to shed light on gaps in the student’s knowledge, their forgetfulness, and hone in on their strengths.
Through AI, digital twins can materialize into a functional and personal study buddy.
Twinning is effectively a solid starting point for the development of a proactive educational study plan. From here, as the data reflects the student’s actual profile, the near to real-time data of the students’ progress will represent the students’ knowledge and skills.
Twinning can also be modeled to take into account what the student forgets and the skills they are practicing. The digital economy awaits, and as things stand, the next generation of our workforce have been and continue to be, educated and trained in an educational model that is incompatible with the digital future.
The university project, Island 10-22, is an incentive for education leaders aimed at intensive skills development specifically for the digital economy.
Participants of this project receive skills development in the field of digital and cross-cutting technologies. They are therefore anticipated to be the most sought after members of the labor market and will lead in the transition into a digital global economy.
“We aim to create a flexible digital education system, not even of tomorrow, but for the day after, based on the unique Russian educational AI.”The Russian education AI will enable quick training of these specialists and teams to solve complex problems,” said Dmitry Peskov, head of University 20.35.
On many occasions, students at university will be expected to work in groups on team projects.
Artificial intelligence technologies can make intelligent recommendations on team development for technical projects. And nothing enhances learning quite like team development. Collaboration drives innovation. Artificial intelligence, by considering each participant’s profile, we can assemble the most efficient teams and distribute work according to skill and proficiency.
AI poses some strategic and educational revolutionary technical solutions.
Each of these can help the current educational model reach the next milestone in maximizing both its standards and the level of expertise in students it produces. Total digital footprint recording allows AI to analyze the interaction of the participants in social networks.
The results of completed tasks, geolocation, as well as uploads of videos and photos, make possible a personalized program based on the needs of the student. Subsequently, individual development pathways with AI assistants can be created for each student.
When looking ahead at development records and tracing the students’ progress, AI, through semantic speech analysis allows the tracking of changes in the participants’ mindsets. Biometric data gathering can identify stress and fatigue levels to analyze different stages of the program. This data can then be used to modify the program accordingly.
AI puts students on a personal development pathway based on their digital footprints.
AI can do much more than condense a lecture into flashcards and smart online study guides. It has thus far, automated administrative tasks, introduced personalized learning to the extraordinarily generic syllabus that exists today.
AI’s application is still in its early stages; its continued development will soon see it working as a full-fledged AI-based university model. The model will be immersed entirely on the premise of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Simultaneously, its development will generate a higher caliber of students.
Dmytro is a CEO at Solvid, a creative content creation agency based in London. He’s also the founder of Pridicto, a web analytics startup. His work has been featured in various publications, including Entrepreneur.com, TechRadar, Hackernoon, TNW, Huff Post, and ReadWrite.
As consumers become accustomed to the convenience and sense of empowerment created by advances in technology, the travel industry is being impacted in a major way. In response to the increased demand from customers for time-sensitive information and more control over their own destiny, many companies are focused on developing artificial intelligence that can improve the customer experience in a number of ways.
Meet LUCY, you will love her
In 2020, FlightHub and JustFly will launch “LUCY”, an intelligent assistant dedicated to online customer service. She’s your new go-to expert when it comes to booking travel, and she’s here for you 24/7 — without being put on hold.
She’s kind of like Siri, only smarter and faster
Purchasing online flights is still the easiest way to go when it comes to booking travel. FlightHub’s new tool is part of the company’s digital customer care strategy designed to make it even easier to book and manage your travel plans.
She’s the best of both worlds for advice on booking travel all over the World
With LUCY, travel bookers aren’t left to their own digital devices. Instead of risking being put on hold to speak with a real human, there’s LUCY to provide travelers with direct advice, tips, and tailor-made solutions for their travel itinerary faster than you can say artificial intelligence.
“We’ve combined the convenience of online browsing and the support of human contact in a single tool that allows all our customers to have a direct solution 24 hours a day. It’s a way to ensure that our customer service is consistent and beyond the current market offer,” explains Chris Cave, COO at FlightHub.
Employees will be trained to operate the system and provide personalized assistance, so no matter the question, LUCY will be able to provide the best possible answers. Here are just a few examples of the types of questions FlightHub customers will be able to ask LUCY:
“Hey LUCY, how much will it cost to change my flight and come home on Wednesday instead of Thursday?”
“So LUCY, is my flight on time?
“LUCY, can you tell me how much it costs to include a carry-on on and what the size restrictions are?”
Although LUCY won’t be able to remind you to pick up your dry cleaning or recite the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody like Siri can, FlightHub plans on making her as helpful and charming as possible.
LUCY on social
She won’t have her own FaceBook page per se, but customers will be able to access her through all channels: text on Facebook, text, WhatsApp, etc. She’ll also be audio driven, so you’ll be able to speak to her in an upcoming release later in 2020.
LUCY is one of a kind
No other online travel agency offers a service like LUCY. Part digital, part person, all the right answers, right away. She’s a great example of the work FlightHub’s been doing behind the scenes over the past few years, focusing on digital solutions to enable and empower travelers when making their choices before, during, and after their trip.
FlightHub recognizes that customer service is the main obstacle for online travel agencies. That’s why they’ve developed a wide range of digital solutions to facilitate the shopping experience.
“Customer service throughout our industry must be modernized and aligned with the habits of today’s travelers,” adds Cave. “Our digital offer is different from the whole of the current offer. Over the next 12 to 24 months, it’s our conviction that our customers will be able to get solutions within seconds of having made any inquiry through any method of their choice.”
FlightHub will start Beta testing LUCY in October of this year. After that, they’ll start rolling out an initial set of features and keep rolling out more and more throughout 2020.
The new decade will bring about changes to the online travel industry, and FlightHub is proud to be spearheading the development of innovative technology that will have a tremendous impact on user experience and ultimately, customer satisfaction as well.
FlightHub travelers are going to fall in love with LUCY.
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This is the latest racist incident to afflict Italian football this season.
A game was briefly suspended when Fiorentina’s Brazilian defender Dalbert said he had been racially abused by Atalanta fans, while Roma banned a fan for life for sending racist insults to their own defender Juan Jesus on social media.
Cagliari were cleared of racist chanting towards Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku in a Serie A match, the third time the club have been investigated for alleged racist abuse in the past two years.
Image caption The crash happened near the Barony A-frame, a preserved headgear from the Barony Colliery
Two men have died in an an apparent hit-and-run car crash in East Ayrshire.
The collision happened at about 16: 00 on Saturday on the B7036 Barony Road near Auchinleck, close to the Barony A-frame.
Kevin Hall, 54, from Ochiltree, and his passenger, Douglas Murray, 37, from Auchinleck,- who were in a white Volkswagen Golf – died at the scene.
Police said the other car, a white Volkswagen Scirocco, left the scene of the crash before officers arrived.
Sgt Kevin Blackley of Ayrshire’s Road Policing Unit said: “Two men have lost their lives as a result of this crash and enquiries are ongoing.
“We are urging anyone who may have seen either vehicle prior to the collision, or who witnessed the crash, to contact us as soon as possible.
“We are especially interested in speaking to motorists who may have dashcam footage of either vehicles in the Auchinleck area or footage following the crash that could help us with our investigation.”
It has vowed to press ahead with the legislation – the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) – to implement the Brexit deal next week.
But the BBC economic’s editor Faisal Islam tweeted that the wording on the government’s “Get Ready for Brexit” connection had been “markedly toned down” with “less emphasis on the date”.
Prominent logos on the connection saying “Brexit 31 October” also appear to have been removed.
Faisal said the wording also indicated preparation for 31 October was for the possibility of “no deal” rather than Brexit generally.
The campaign, aimed at preparing businesses and the public for leaving the European Union, has previously been criticised by members of the public arguing the ads are inaccurate for implying the UK will definitely leave on that date.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said last month it would not investigate the ads, saying the 31 October departure date was the “date that has been declared by the government”.
“This therefore currently remains the default date that the public will consider as the official ‘leave’ date for the UK, as agreed with the EU, last autumn,” the ASA said in September.
Electrical cars EV No deal risk ‘increased’
Cabinet minister Michael Gove, who is in charge of no-deal Brexit planning, told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday the government now planned to step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit, including triggering its “Operation Yellowhammer” contingency plans.
“The risk of leaving without a deal has actually increased because we cannot guarantee that the European Council will grant an extension,” he said.
The information campaign urging the public and businesses to “get ready for Brexit” was launched in early September.
The campaign is reported to have cost the government £100m and has run on billboards as well as in social media adverts and on TV.
