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A day in the life of (quasi) every vending machine in the world
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A minute before midnight on 21 luglio 2021, as passengers staggered sleepily through Manchester airport, I stood wringing my hands in the glow of a vending machine that was seven feet tall, conspicuously branded with th...
World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland
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The world’s largest plant designed to suck carbon dioxide out of the air and turn it into rock started has running, the companies behind the project said on Wednesday. The plant, named Orca after the Icelandic word “o...
Renaissance man: how Mancini turned Italy from mess to winning machine
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Roberto Mancini has never been content to just take part. Aged nine, he became so frustrated at losing a table tennis game that he threw a bat at his cousin’s head. A 24, he was part of a Sampdoria side that won Seri...
Are promising female auteurs getting trapped in the franchise machine?
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Stanley Kubrick to reboot Iron Man? David Lean’s Batman? Fellini’s Wonder Woman? In decades past it was almost unthinkable that “serious” auteur film-makers would stoop to superhero movies; now it’s standard procedure...
Revitalised Harry Kane turns England into powerful attacking machine
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Are you not entertained? Was this not what you wanted? So much was right for England it is tempting, for all the talk of hard-nosed tournament football, to luxuriate just a little in the beauty of it all. The staging ...
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro audiobook review – a ghost in the machine
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In this Booker-nominated fable, a robot stands in a shop window waiting for a human family to claim her. Klara is an Artificial Friend, or AF, who runs on solar power and has been created as a companion for lonely c...
What did I just buy? I tried to use New York’s first NFT vending machine
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It’s easy to miss the storefront that is home to the “world’s first NFT vending machine” in Manhattan’s Financial District. Squished between a sandwich shop and a tailor, the windows are bathed in pink neon light, wit...
MyPillow CEO faces defamation lawsuit from second voting machine maker
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The MyPillow CEO, Mike Lindell, is facing another defamation lawsuit for promoting his conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was rigged against Donald Trump. Smartmatic, a UK-based voting machine company, filed a l...
Marina Ovsyannikova broke the state propaganda machine – others will follow
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Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian state television Channel One employee, was detained on Monday after interrupting a live news broadcast on Monday with an anti-war message. She appeared in court later, where she was fine...
Big Red Machine: How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? revisione
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Aaron Dessner cuts a very low-profile figure, even by the standards of both bookish US alt-rockers and blue-chip pop collaborators, neither of whom require otherworldly charisma or an outrageous image. Put it this way...
Rick Astley on his Smiths covers gigs: ‘I’ll use a karaoke machine if I have to’
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Last Monday, Rick Astley (as in 80s, bequiffed, Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley) made a surprise guest appearance at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town, with Blossoms, to sing Panic and This Charming Man by the Smiths...
Pep Guardiola challenges Jack Grealish to copy ‘machine’ Raheem Sterling
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Pep Guardiola challenged Jack Grealish to copy Raheem Sterling and become as prolific as his new teammate after he opened his Manchester City account on his home debut. Grealish became the first £100m player to score ...
The Matrix Resurrections review – drained of life by the Hollywood machine
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Eighteen years after what we thought was the third and final Matrix film, The Matrix Revolutions, Lana Wachowski has directed a fourth: The Matrix Resurrections. But despite some ingenious touches (a very funny name, ...
No contact required: Covid fuels vending machine revival in Japan
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After a brief wait to the faint whirr of moving machinery parts, the tiny cardboard box that drops into the plastic-covered tray is reassuringly warm. Inside is a perfectly passable burger in a chewy white bun, topped...
Borat Supplemental Reportings Retrieved from Floor of Stable Containing Editing Machine review – Obsolete
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Giving toxic conspiracy theorists the oxygen of publicity is one thing. Giving us the carbon monoxide of their ironic micro-celebrity status is something else. And giving them equal time with Hillary Clinton on camera...
The Killers: Pressure Machine review – their best album in years
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This country has two more national anthems than most: God Save the Queen, Three Lions and the Killers’ Mr Brightside, a song so anthemic it punches the air in its sleep. Yet the US band have never written a great ball...