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Gadgets & Gizmos: A robotic cake, Spielberg's Duel becomes a reality & tattoing tardigrades

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Gadgets & Gizmos: A robotic cake, Spielberg's Duel becomes a reality & tattoing tardigrades
Steve Caplin wonders why scientists have developed a cake with pneumatic robotic dancing bears on top, rechargeable but also edible. Amazon have a new budget service – Haul. DVD anti-piracy warnings were piratical themselves. Spielberg's film Duel is about to become a reality in Texas. Delivery robots will soon be able to climb stairs. EEGs are to be considerably less intrusive. Agatha Christie is now helping budding detective writers – from beyond the grave. And Chinese scientists have worked out how to tattoo tardigrades.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: Trade deals, local election results and Reform & the Australian and Canadian elections

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Trade deals, local election results and Reform & the Australian and Canadian elections
Political commentator Mike Indian discusses the predicted US-UK trade deal which is unlikely to be the full deal pursued by the UK for years but should still be a positive. The Indian deal is a significant one, given that India will be the 3rd biggest economy in the world. Both, however, are examples of how the world is becoming ever more complicated. Mike discusses the local elections, a bad night for both Conservatives and Labour. He doesn't think that Reform's success is a flash in the pan but feels there will be a ceiling on its level of support. He also discusses the remarkable turnarounds in the Canadian and Australian elections, both of which owe a considerable debt to Donald Trump's sabre rattling.
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Mike Indian

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: How tariffs and trade deals affect the market and companies

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors

The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: How tariffs and trade deals affect the market and companies
Russ Mould of A J Bell explains that markets are hoping that trade deals might be in the offing to reduce the effect of President Trump's tariffs. It is too early to tell if this is a triumph of hope over expectation or if the UK will be one of the first companies to strike a deal with the US and reduce the effect of tariffs. Russ goes through some of the companies which have explained how they will be affected by American tariffs and which might benefit from the Indian trade deal.
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Russ Mould

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Junk food affects the brain, T-Rex handbags & the weight of Earth's trees

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Gadgets & Gizmos: Junk food affects the brain, T-Rex handbags & the weight of Earth's trees
Steve Caplin explains the research showing how junk food inhibits the brain. There's a tailor-made Bugatti watch costing a mere $340,000. British scientists plan to weigh the world's trees with a newly-launched satellite. A Newcastle company hopes to grow dinosaur hides in their lab. Urinals could soon be made a little less splashy. Google are trying to talk to dolphins. And Chocolate Digestives are 100 and we've apparently been eating them wrongly for a century.
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Steve Caplin

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The Business of Film: The Accountant 2, The Friend, Julie Keeps Quiet & G20

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: The Accountant 2, The Friend, Julie Keeps Quiet & G20
James Cameron-Wilson boosts #2 Sinners again but also enjoyed #4 The Accountant 2, again starring Ben Affleck 8 years on. With a plot like a chess game it is smart, entertaining and often very funny. #22 is The Friend with Naomi Watts & Bill Murray. A handsomely acted look at death, it feels like the adaptation it is and lacks drama. Much better is #28 Julie Keeps Quiet. This rivetting and topical Belgian film about a young tennis player in crisis has an electric central performance. James enjoyed Viola Davis as the US President in G20 on Amazon Prime. A topical thriller it is entertaining but silly, falling about halfway between Segal and Cruise.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Metlen & IP Group

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The Financial Outlook for Personal Investors: Metlen & IP Group
Chloe Won Yung Shin of Edison Group thinks investors should keep an eye out for Metlen. It's a Greek energy and metals company with a €6bn market cap heading for a second listing in London later in the year, where it may join the FTSE100. It's Europe's only aluminium producer and has an increasing interest in producing critical metals. IP Group invests in intellectual property businesses, mainly in the UK. As a result of recent headwinds it is trading at over 70% discount to net asset value. But there are plenty of positives about the business. Both are discussed on Edison's website. https://www.edisongroup.com
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Chloe Won Yung Shin

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The Bigger Picture: Chinese economic problems, Blair's attack on net zero drive & Trump's 1st 100 days

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The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture: Chinese economic problems, Blair's attack on net zero drive & Trump's 1st 100 days
Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University believes China's big problem is not Trump but its domestic economic woes. The extraordinary property bubble has left more vacant homes than the massive population. With high youth unemployment, China is potentially in a downward spiral, fuelled by widespread pessimism. Tony Blair has exposed the schism in Labour over the dash to Net Zero and with Trump's push for energy supremacy and oil prices falling, we may soon get the called-for "reset of the debate". While it's unclear if Trump's first 100 days will be judged a success, he has nonetheless pushed through some amazing reforms and changed global discourse in a way not seen since the days of Thatcher & Reagan.
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Professor Tim Evans

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The Business of Film: Sinners, The Penguin Lessons, Warfare & Holland

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The Business Of Film

The Business of Film: Sinners, The Penguin Lessons, Warfare & Holland
James Cameron-Wilson says UK box office is up 83% YoY. He recommends three films in the chart. Ryan Coogler's Sinners at #2 is an outstanding piece of filmmaking which defies caegorisation but brings to mind Tarantino. It's a powerful, sensual and immersive experience that stays with you. #3 The Penguin Lessons isn't the feelgood family film you might expect but a wise, charming and funny political thriller starring Steve Coogan set in 1970s Argentina. At #5 Alex Gardland's Warfare aims to be the most realistic war film ever and succeeds. It's a terrific film but harrowing. On Amazon Prime Holland, with Nicole Kidman, tries to be a comedic black thriller like Fargo but doesn't quite work.
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James Cameron-Wilson

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Gadgets & Gizmos: A new colour, flu gum instead of jabs, energy from water & robot runners

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Gadgets & Gizmos: A new colour, flu gum instead of jabs, energy from water & robot runners
Steve Caplin says there's a new colour, "Olo", but you need a laser blasted into your eye to see it. Instead of flu jabs, you may soon be able to chew a gum made with Egyptian kidney beans. There's a new high-tech stethoscope monitor you can wear at home, a folding colour ebook reader, AI-powered gloves to help the near half million deaf-blind people in the UK, augmented carpentry, a motorised tape measure and a weapon to take down drones. Singapore scientists have found a way to get energy from rain. And in Beijing, robots competed in a half marathon, with varying results.
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Steve Caplin

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The Bigger Picture: Ukraine, the Supreme Court gender ruling & the death of Pope Francis

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The Bigger Picture: Ukraine, the Supreme Court gender ruling & the death of Pope Francis
Political commentator Mike Indian wonders what lasting settlement there can be in Ukraine given the capriciousness of the Trump administration. We are seeing a redrawing of global alliances, with the US returning to its former isolationist policy. In the wake of the Supreme Court gender ruling, he considers the divisiveness and politicisation of the topic and how nuance is being lost. We should be more considerate to those who feel they have been born in the wrong body. Whatever your view on the edicts of the Papacy, the Pope is still a political figure with a difference and an integral moral force in an increasingly turbulent world. The new Pope wiill have a difficult task ahead of him.
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Mike Indian

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