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The Dartford High Street branch will close on March 18, 2024. The closure comes as Lloyds Banking Group announced that it is closing 45 branches across its network and the Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands. The company claims that due to the shift away from high street banking. The group is closing 22 Halifax branches, 19 Lloyds branches and four in the Bank of Scotland business. The Dartford branch offers a range of services including internal and 24-hour external cash machines for withdrawals, a paying-in machine for deposits, counter service for personalized assistance, travel money, Wi-Fi, and digital assistance…

As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with Animate Anyone, bad actors can puppeteer people better than ever. The new generative video technique was developed by researchers at Alibaba Group’s Institute for Intelligent Computing. It’s a big step forward from previous image-to-video systems like DisCo and DreamPose, which were impressive all the way back in summer but are now ancient history. What Animate Anyone can do is not by any means unprecedented, but has passed that difficult space between “janky…

Workflow automation along with Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has a significant and positive impact on an organisation’s productivity and efficiency. The key is knowing how to leverage both of these to get the most benefit. Explore how they work together and how you can harness this to streamline organisation processes.   Workflow Design and Modeling Look at the workflows that you are currently using to determine where automation could benefit you. Then, use ECM tools to model and design automated workflows that work best with your optimised processes.   Document Capture and Storage Use an Enterprise Content Management system to organise,…

Firefighters were called to Anerley Hill, Crystal Palace at around 11am this morning (Monday, December 4). Two fire engines and ten firefighters were called to the blaze. A single-storey outbuilding which London Fire Brigade estimates was around 13 metres by five metres, was destroyed by the fire. No injuries were reported. The fire was under control by around 1pm and its cause is under investigation. As the fire was put out, police at the scene closed the road, causing a build up of traffic. On X, formerly known as Twitter, Bromley MPS tweeted that temporary road closures were in place…

In October 2023, Kent Police learned about the dealer, and then identified the supplier as Ricardo Cain, 24. Police found that he used a specific phone number to send marketing texts offering class A drugs to local users. On October 23, officers found the dealer had travelled to Swanley and suspected he was dealing drugs from the home of a vulnerable person. They attended the address and, after having to break in, they found Cain inside with £250 cash. As police entered, he threw seven deals of heroin and 49 wraps of crack cocaine out of a window. These were…

John Paul II Primary School is celebrating 10 years and they want to give back to the local community for their support Source link

Bands that have played at events like the one planned in Swansea include Busted, McFly, The Kooks, Scouting for Girls and Ocean Colour Scene Source link

Bitcoin has experienced a 150% surge in value throughout the year, reaching over $42,000 early Monday morning. This explosive growth comes amidst mounting anticipation surrounding the potential launch of a Bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States.The main contributing factor to Bitcoin’s recent surge, in addition to the halving event approaching amongst other bullish developments, appears to be the mounting speculation surrounding the approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF by regulatory authorities in the United States. Such an ETF, if approved, would allow traditional investors to gain exposure to spot Bitcoin, potentially boosting the price of the asset.”Money…

Katie Konans, NASA’s audio and podcasting lead at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is one of two NASA employees named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. The other agency honoree, Clare Luckey, is a systems engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list is a selection of young, creative, and bold minds the magazine’s experts consider revolutionaries, changing the course of business and society. Forbes evaluated more than 20,000 nominees to decide on 600 business and industry figures, with 30 selected in each of 20 industries. “When I joined…

Les Hamilton, who represented South Portslade for more than 50 years, stood down as a councillor last month. Mr Hamilton said: “It has been a tremendous honour to be able to make a difference for local people. “Over the last 52 years, I’ve served as a councillor under the former Portslade Urban District Council, Hove Borough Council and now Brighton and Hove City Council. “I was part of the first Labour administration on Hove Council in the 1990s and was proud to serve as mayor. “As residents in my ward will know, I am a staunch champion of Portslade, where…