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James Dewen, Self Service Checkout Operations Manager at Tesco, said: “Customers really like the convenience of our self-service checkouts but for some the voice leaves them a bit frustrated”.

Move over: The world’s population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, a new United Nations report says.

If you live in the Netherlands, there is, after a bank in the country introduced a system which allows customers to log into online banking using just their voice.

The company has a market cap of $4,639 million and there are 25,320,000 shares in outstanding. The company’s strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and...

Low math and reading scores helped give Louisiana the fifth-worst school system in the United States, according to report by financial website WalletHub. The personal finance website measured the quality of education in all 50 states and the District of Columbia using 13 key...

Veteran racing commentator Sir Peter O’Sullevan has died at the age of 97, BBC Sport has announced.

Posting to Facebook and Twitter, Sri Lankan Deputy Economic Policy Minister Harsha de Silva said that Google Loon balloons will soon bring even wireless coverage to the entire country in a deal hashed out this week.

That resulted in Barclays reporting a 26% fall in its first quarter statutory profits to £1.34bn. By comparison, Deutsche Bank AG has increased 20 percent in that period, while UBS Group AG is up 25 percent.

If you already use “Ok Google” and your voice to send emails, Hangouts, or text messages, this should be a natural progression.

Sponsored Listening, a Pandora feature where users of the free ad-supported version could engage with a brand for an hour of ad-free service, is now open for all advertisers.

As fans gear up for the latest series of the BBC baking show, Berry said it is “terribly important” she and Paul Hollywood do not get involved with the contestants outside of the famous tent.

As was promised, we got to see more of Fallout 4 at QuakeCon this month, and in the process, we also learned more about the game. Amusingly enough, this includes a few of the more profane options, such as ‘f***face.’ The factions in the game will also all behave...

The vote is in and the results show that Ohio State is the favorite to the win the Big Ten in 2015.

The idea of being able to read our voicemails in text form is both convenient and awesome, though in practice, it’s not usual to stare at a jumble of words trying to figure out if the caller was drunk or if it was simply a poor transcription. Thanks to those users who chose...

An worldwide group of scientists led by the University of Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the genome of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) and identified several sequence changes that underlie the bird’s adaptation to a nocturnal lifestyle. They compared the...