That's how you can tell when something is incredibly stupid, when it has the word "challenge" at the end and is spread via social media. I'm just waiting for the Running Head-first Into a Concrete Wall Challenge and the Put a Shotgun in your Mouth and Pull the Trigger Challenge to take off.

That's already the standard in a lot of countries. All the fast lane does is check that your image matches the one in the identity document, nothing more. And by fast I mean actually fast, not just "called fast" - time from leaving the plane to picking up my luggage can be as little as five minutes.

The weird thing with this is that it was the US who forced the entire world to adopt biometric passports post-911, and now they're left behind using humans squinting at you at the end of long queues at their borders. Where you have no rights and they can detain you and seize your property, but at least they can't automatically match you to your passport.

If they're going to have the chips do that, why not cut out the middleman and just have them not able to think bad thoughts? And one of them could find a cure male-pattern baldness while we're at it.

The V2 was hypersonic. Perun covered the hypesonics about two years ago. Their two main uses are propaganda and attracting funding.

It's OK, it'll be fixed when the same story is reposted tomorrow.

Crassus initially was fairly successful in battle, saving Sulla on at least one occasion. No bone spurs there. And his "highly corrupt means" was proscription which was pretty standard practice at the time, with Crassus himself having been subject to proscription.

It's actually pretty hard to find someone as thoroughly incompetent as Trump to compare to. Certainly none of the Roman leaders spring to mind (at best perhaps Commodus), they wouldn't have lasted long if they had been.

Not just that, they stacked the vote for OOXML by packing in extra delegates who had never voted before and haven't voted since, causing serious problems afterwards due to lack of participants in later votes.

It depends on which country you're in. In a country like the US with appalling labour laws they definitely need the unions. In most European countries with decent protection of workers rights, unions are mostly redundant and often just a PITA when they engage in pointless power-plays.

It's doing what inexperienced legal interns are doing today while the client is charged law-partner rates. It's going to be no worse than what some newly-hired kid does, but at far more reasonable rates. So I don't see a problem with it, it's far better value for money and a task really more suited to robolawyers in the first place.

Or as it's known in tech terms, a reformat and reinstall.

Vice-president Trump and/or Fox News claiming it is caused by immigrants in 3... 2... 1...

Well the article says it's the first of its kind and it's just been moved from one amazon special project to another. Is there perhaps some magic search engine you use that tells you otherwise? Or, given that it claims to be "AI", did you use "AI" to tell you otherwise?

That's a one-off technology demonstrator, not something in everyday use in different parts of the world.

The UK has the Sun. Also the Times, Daily Mirror, Grauniad, etc.

Also given that this is Google, they'll dump them after six months when they decide to focus on other things, leaving them with a large training-cost debt to recover in a market now flooded with other abandoned-by-Google workers.