It's pleasing to see that the MasterChef thread has been allowed to continue over the past week or so. From what I've seen posts have remained primarily presentation related, probably as by now users know that admin/mods would understandably clamp down on any discussion around the allegations.

It's ...

Out of nowhere my local big tesco has £1 locks on the trolleys. Apparently they'd lost £8,000 of trolleys and that is the threshold for head office to snap.

The fact there was no posters in advance to give notice of this change, and no freebie tokens to give away, probably lost them thousands in ...

Nine years (!) since the last post in this thread, DAB+ has truly taken off in the UK, to the point where from next month the only vanilla DAB stations left on the Digital One multiplex will be LBC and Talk Sport.

I find it interesting only because when I started this thread in 2011, I didn't ...

I get the impression that eventually 'new Outlook' will replace 'Outlook Classic'. It looks like Microsoft have a target of April 2026 for this, but will continue to support the 'classic' version until at least 2029. (Annoyingly MS Publisher will no longer be supported from October 2026, but as of ...

This has actually disgsuted me... seriously considering resigning my Labour party membership

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crldey0z00ro

Really feels like he's trying to win back the Reform crowd without thinking about how it's alienating everyone else.

I assume you're referring to ...

In fact, almost nowhere uses the magnetic stripe and they will begin being removed from cards altogether imminently:
https://newsroom.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-stripe/

The exception are cards which aren't traditional credit or debit cards. For example, prepaid high street ...

So yeah, it's kinda nifty. But. This is not how you simplify things. Make the fares easier to understand in the first place. Let people tap in and out with their bank card - or if they don't want to do that, with a stored value on an ITSO smartcard.

It never fails to amaze me how people can look ...

The M&S app has a ‘scan as you shop’ function for the food hall with Apple Pay integrated, so no need to visit the checkout at all. It’s extremely handy when just nipping in for one or two things at lunchtime when even the self-checkout queues can be lengthy.


What happens when you purchase ...

The M&S app has a ‘scan as you shop’ function for the food hall with Apple Pay integrated, so no need to visit the checkout at all. It’s extremely handy when just nipping in for one or two things at lunchtime when even the self-checkout queues can be lengthy.

I didn't even realise their app had ...

Not entirely sure about that but definitely not in the timescales you're suggesting, and not with the technologies that we know of now either. A decade is nothing, we're over two decades in to SCOs being a thing now (and three since the earliest SAYS type things).

Worth noting that across the ...

It all feels like it’ll be irrelevant in the coming decade anyway. Surely some form of just-walk-out technology will eventually be the norm. RFID feels like the way forward if it can be developed to be smaller / cheaper. Zara use it well for their self checkouts.

Decathlon also use RFID on their ...