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Staff shortages due to timetable changes have been blamed for train cancellations, with passengers warned more could follow.Transport for Wales (TfW) is increasing journeys by 40% on Sundays from this weekend leading to fewer staff on Saturday.This led to 12 train services being cancelled before 13:00 GMT and delays.TfW apologised and thanked workers who had given up rest days or volunteered to work overtime.Earlier TfW's website showed there were delays to services between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury, from Cardiff to Shrewsbury and Swansea and Chester to Holyhead, among others. Check your train time - new timetables to begin Trains across UK missed stops 160 times a day Why Wales' quietest station got busier The railway stations worth lingering at A bus replacement service was also operating between Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog.Rail users took to social media to complain about missing connections as a result of cancellations or trains being full because of issues. Skip Twitter … [Read more...] about New Transport for Wales timetable blamed for train cancellations

Amnesty International are holding protests across the globe today calling for an end to Googles plan of censoring their search engine in China. Demonstrations will take place outside Googles HQ's in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia,Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, The Netherlands and Spain.  It was revealed that Google secretly built the censored search engine, code-named Dragonfly, to blacklist certain words such as 'human rights' and 'student protest'. Amnesty have launched a petition to stop works on the 'dystopian' platform which are said to launch in China between January and April 2019. The human rights group say that the move would 'set a dangerous precedent for tech companies enabling rights abuses by governments.'  Scroll down for video  Amnesty International have launched a petition to stop Google censoring their search engine in China. Activists hold a giant dragonfly-shaped balloon with a banner reading 'Google, do not censor in China, no to the … [Read more...] about Protests against Google’s ‘dystopian’ CENSORED search engine for China to take place across the globe today calling on the firm to cancel its controversial plan

Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that forms an opinion of people by the way they speak - in much the same way people do - is being developed by a UK finance firm. The language and vocabulary used by customers who ring in seeking help with their mortgage or savings accounts will be used to create a profile. The system, which is being backed by the Nationwide Building Society, will then tailor a computer generated conversation with the customer defined by their ‘voice personality’. Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that forms an opinion of people by the way they speak - in much the same way people do - is being developed by a UK finance firm. The language and vocabulary used by customers who ring will be used to create a profile (stock image) The AI system, developed by the company Scaled Insights, is already being used in partnership with hospitals in Leeds to help communicate with patients in the treatment of obesity and other issues. It does not mimic an … [Read more...] about AI-powered phone service developed by Nationwide building society will judge you on way the you speak and use phrases it thinks you will find useful, friendly and easy to understand

US retail giant Walmart on Monday agreed to sell its British unit, Asda, to local rival Sainsbury's in a 7.3 billion GBP (€8.3 billion $10.1 billion) deal. The cash and stock deal combines the No. 2 and No. 3 supermarket chains in Britain, to create the country's largest group by market share, overtaking long-standing leader Tesco. The new group, which will have a combined market share of 31.4 percent, will be better placed to see off competition from German discount supermarket chains Aldi and Lidl, as well as US online retailer Amazon, Sainsbury's said. Read more: Why don't Aldi and Lidl deliver? Watch video 01:21 Share Tesco under fire for wage discrimination Send Facebook Twitter google+ Whatsapp Tumblr linkedin stumble Digg reddit Newsvine Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/2sLb2 Tesco under fire for wage discrimination Walmart, which bought Asda in 1999 for 6.7 billion pounds, said it would focus on online sales in countries with … [Read more...] about Walmart sells British arm to rival, sparking competition concerns

Victoria Bowen was over the moon when she fell pregnant with her first child. But while she was carrying her first child, Victoria began to eat for two - and didn't stop after she gave birth. By the time she'd had her second baby, the mum-of-two was dangerously overweight and too afraid to get on the scales. Victoria was trapped in the cycle of over-eating but was now so self-conscious about how she looked that she stopped leaving her house. She admits she fell into the mentality of eating for two as soon as she found out she was pregnant. Victoria, from Red Cliffs, Australia, said: "There were days that I ate a block of chocolate after dinner, every day or every second day or however often I wanted it. “If I wanted it, I had it. And then I think those eating habits, which were never my habits before they kind of crossed over into after having the baby after having my first and then they just continue then I just continue to balloon and balloon.” Physically Victoria was in … [Read more...] about Heartbreaking moment at family picnic inspires 18 stone mum to shed 10 stone