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Restaurants often want to fill seats outside of peak lunch and dinner hours so opting for earlier or later sittings can be rewarded by a cheaper bill.Apps such as First Table, which operates across 21 UK cities, as well as Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, give diners 50% off food when they book a participating restaurant’s first or last dining slot. In exchange, diners pay a small booking fee. EatClub is another, giving walk-ins up to 50% off the whole bill at thousands of venues when they redeem an offer within its app. The biggest discounts are at off-peak times.Shokofeh…

Range Rover has unveiled its first fully electric model, after a year‑long delay to its planned launch.The Range Rover Electric, to be built in Solihull, marks a major shift in its electrification programme, backed by large‑scale upgrades across its West Midlands sites.Parent company JLR said it had up-skilled 10,500 workers for electric production as it pushes ahead with modernisation despite recent financial pressures and planned job cuts.The launch comes as the Coventry‑based carmaker faces falling profits, supply chain disruption and restructuring following a cyber attack last year. The company said the launch was being supported by new battery and electric…

Consumer group Which? says it was able to create a fake listing for 10 Downing Street on travel giant Booking.com.The UK watchdog said its researchers were able to book a bogus stay at the prime minister’s address – as well as leave a fake review noting “hanging out” with resident mouser Larry the cat as a highlight.It said despite clear signs it was fake, Booking.com did not remove the listing until two months after it was uploaded.”This limited test is not a true reflection of the experience of millions of listings or reviews published on our platform,” a Booking.com spokesperson…

Apple has renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America on its maps service app, after an order from US President Donald Trump as part of Washington’s trade spat with Canada.The change was made for US-based users, while those in Canada will continue to see Lake Ontario displayed. The BBC has contacted Apple for comment.The iPhone maker’s move follows Trump’s executive order to change the lake’s name after trade talks between the neighbouring countries collapsed late last month, with Washington imposing new 50% tariffs on $20bn (£14.8bn; C$28bn) worth of Canadian goods. Google made a similar switch for its users in the…

Calendar dates are not supposed to matter in efficient markets. Stock prices should reflect a company’s cash flows, as well as sentiment toward macroeconomic variables such as interest rates. The fact that Labor Day is right around the corner shouldn’t matter. Yet for nearly a century, one month has exhibited a noticeably different pattern from the rest of the year. September is the only month in which the S&P 500 (^GSPC -0.71%) has posted a negative long-run average return, down roughly 1.1% between 1928 and 2025. While there is no single reason for September’s historical weakness, much of the declines…

Pyka and Windracers are building aircraft from scratch, arguing this allows autonomy to be designed in from the outset and the aircraft tailored to the job.Others are retrofitting existing larger planes.Backed by Boeing’s investment arm, US-based Reliable Robotics is currently testing its system on the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, a single-pilot cargo plane that can carry about 1360kg of payload over hundreds of kilometers.Retrofitting on certified aircraft lets the company focus exclusively on proving the autonomous system’s safety rather than also having to seek approval for a new aircraft, says Robert Rose, its co-founder and CEO.Merlin Labs, also US-based, has…

On Tuesday, Google announced it’s rolling out five new updates designed to make Android phones more accessible, useful, and personalized. Announced in a blog post, the features include those aimed at reducing motion sickness, helping blind and low-vision users navigate their surroundings, remembering where users leave important items, and another that adds new ways to personalize Google Messages. While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others specifically leverage Gemini to provide various improvements. The most interesting update is “Motion Assist,” a feature designed to help people who experience…

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Japan’s JGB yield now at 30-year high Global long-term bond yields are now at the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis as major long-dated sovereign bonds continued to sell off into trading on Tuesday.The sell off comes only days after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made headlines by announcing that the maximum size of debt buyback transactions would be increased to $4 billion from September.  While the Treasury does not conduct monetary policy, some commentators have compared this to a form of yield curve control. This has brought the debasement narrative, keenly followed by Bitcoin and precious metal investors, back into…

In brief Nvidia wrote MediaTek a $3.5 billion check for convertible bonds, its largest direct investment outside the US, covering about 90% of MediaTek’s record $3.9 billion offshore bond offering. Alphabet bought in too without saying how much, and MediaTek shares hit their daily limit Tuesday, up 10% in Taipei trading. MediaTek is adopting Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion platform and expects its AI chip business to clear $2 billion in revenue this year. Nvidia just wrote its biggest check outside the United States: $3.5 billion for MediaTek’s convertible bonds in a deal announced Monday. The purchase covers roughly 90% of MediaTek’s…