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The government has announced an extension to its mortgage guarantee scheme, which aims to help more buyers get on the property ladder. The scheme was first introduced in March 2021 and was due to end in December this year, but the full Autumn Statement report confirms it will be extended by 18 months, until the end of June 2025. The scheme aims to help borrowers with smaller deposits to take out a mortgage with a 5% deposit on a home worth up to £600,000. The government gives a partial guarantee to the mortgage lender of up to 15 per cent…

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In this week’s newsletter, read about the creator of a Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) knock-off pleading guilty to fraud charges, check out how OpenSea’s non-fungible token (NFT) users received a massive phishing email campaign, and how Bitcoin transaction fees flipped Ethereum network fees as the hype for Ordinals resurfaced. In other news, game distributor G2A has launched a gaming-focused NFT marketplace. Creator of Mutant Ape ripoff NFTs pleads guilty to $3 million fraud schemeAurelien Michel, the creator of the Mutant Ape Planet NFT collection, which copies the popular MAYC collection by Yuga Labs, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a…

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The efforts to increase society’s environmental sustainability focus on four major challenges that need to be addressed: climate change, natural resource dissipation, environmental pollution, and biodiversity loss. Impacts on climate change are relatively straightforward to characterize through CO2 emissions. We even have ways to convert emissions of other greenhouse gases like methane and laughing gas, into CO2 equivalents, so we can calculate the overall impact on the climate in tons of CO2. However, a similar approach does not apply to biodiversity loss, despite broad consensus among researchers that the biodiversity crisis is a significant and global…

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The Floral Clock at Palmeira Square in Hove will take on a festive new look this week with a Christmas tree, complete with twinkling lights. The tree – smaller than previous years – in Palmeira Square (Image: The Argus) On Friday, November 24, mayor Jackie O’Quinn will start the countdown to switch on the lights after carolling at St John the Baptist Church at 3.45pm. There will also be a chance to climb aboard the festive Brighton and Hove Buses’ Santa bus which will be parked at the square ahead of its first Christmas journey at 5.05pm. The Floral Clock Christmas tree, a…

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Location : The M1 northbound between junctions J14 and J15 . Reason : Congestion. Status : Currently Active. Return To Normal : Normal traffic conditions are expected between 19:45 and 20:00 on 22 November 2023. Delay : There are currently delays of 1 hour against expected traffic. Source link

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An age-old adage, often introduced to us during our formative years, is designed to nudge us beyond our self-centered, nascent minds: “Two heads are better than one.” This proverb encourages collaborative thinking and highlights the potency of shared intellect. Fast forward to 2023, and we find that this wisdom holds true even in the realm of artificial intelligence: Multiple language models, working in harmony, are better than one.  Recently, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) embodied this ancient wisdom within the frontier of modern technology. They introduced a strategy that leverages multiple AI systems to…

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When tourists pack their suitcases and prepare to jet off on their next getaway, their wishlist will usually be populated by mainstream experiences and spots that are featured in postcards.From the Tour Eiffel to the Empire State, tourist hotspots dominate Google and social media hashtags. Their emblematic history, their photogenic allure, and their ‘Instagrammability’ give them a magnetic pull that never goes out of fashion.But a growing number of travellers want to stray from the well-trodden path and seek places that aren’t so picture perfect. The challenge is having to scour the depths of the internet to find these real…

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Ed Phillips Lomond has expanded its Scottish footprint with the acquisition of two estate agencies in the central belt. Lomond, which has made nearly 50 acquisitions since 2021, has shown its commitment to expansion in the Scottish market with the purchase of the lettings portfolio of Garden Stirling Burnet in North Berwick and Eve Brown Property Services in St Andrews. Both lettings businesses will become part of the DJ Alexander brand and mark an increase of three new offices for the company in Scotland over the last month following a recent new opening in Peterhead. Lomond is undertaking a rapid…

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