Watching kettles boil, waiting for buses and standing in line at the post office - it all adds up in the end to a considerable chunk of wasted time! The average Brit spends the equivalent of more than TWO YEARS of their lives 'killing time', it has emerged. Researchers found we typically waste 42 minutes a day waiting for everything from friends to buses and trains. Standing in a queue at the supermarket and sitting in traffic also leave us...

Shot on an iPhone7 Plus, and costing just over $1 million to make, Steven Soderbergh’s latest feature film Unsane is a ballsy & brave foray into thriller territory from a director who has never been afraid of pushing the boundaries, and making do with what is available to him in the pursuit of innovative projects. Staring Claire Foy (The Crown) as a young woman who finds herself involuntarily committed to a mental institution, Unsane manages to offer a truly riveting,...

Fans of watching big robots and Kaiju-style monsters hitting each other repeatedly, destroying everything around them for good measure, rejoice! Everyone else, you might want to sit this one out, because if you were expecting anything resembling a coherent story from the follow up to Guillermo del Toro's 2013 blockbuster behemoth Pacific Rim, then you will be sorely disappointed. Directed by Steven S. DeKnight, and starring John Boyega - who incidentally is also credited as producer on the movie -...

Scientists at Anglia Ruskin University are carrying out research that promises to make some of our favourite processed foods healthier. A talk in Cambridge this Saturday, dubbed "Burgers, bacteria and heart disease: Making sense of the processed food debate", will unveil how some of the nation's most loved meals could become far less harmful. Dr Erridge has discovered that many processed foods contain chemicals that cause our immune systems to be over-activated. Molecules called PAMPs (pathogen associated molecular pattern) are released...

A new pop-up kitchen has launched in the heart of London Shoreditch to raise funds for a children’s hospital in Syria. Run by Syrian refugee Imad Alarnab and charity Help Refugees, Imad’s Choose Love Kitchen invites customers to ‘experience the true taste of Syria’. Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the famous flower market on Columbia Road, the new restaurant serves a traditional 3-course Syrian meal, cooked by one of the most famous chefs from Damascus. All the...

By Tom Shrive The robots are rising. Artificial intelligence (AI) powered smart home assistants - like Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, Google Home/Now and Amazon Echo/Alexa - are working their way into our everyday lives. AI is becoming more appealing across the board, completing simple tasks such as checking the weather, ordering groceries, or arranging your calendar. AI is rapidly developing in sophistication and it won't be long before these assistants can contact British Gas to schedule boiler checks or have...

By Annicée van Engeland, Senior Lecturer in International Security, Centre for International Security & Resilience, Cranfield University There was a murmur of agreement around the room when a Ministry of Defence expert, who’d come in to the University to discuss the UK’s counter-terrorism planning, outlined the basic challenge involved: “we just don’t know what they’ll do next”. This is the problem with the UK’s current thinking, at the time of Parliament’s current Counter-terrorism inquiry. We do know what’s next, there’s...

Some off-the-wall budget weirdness from London, now. Sorry today released their second visual mixtape Home Demo/ns Vol II, and it's a trip. Expanding on the idea of Sorry as a collaborative, and strictly DIY affair, the band said: Asha said, " have been making videos for fun for years and feel like the videos have built up our personality as a group. The themes just came together by things we had, found or cheap props we bought.” “We try and just make...

To celebrate Goût de France, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester served an extraordinary, one-off menu last night (21st March). A unique culinary event, Goût de France (‘Good France’) was spearheaded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, alongside renowned French chef Alain Ducasse. Each year, on 21st March, an enormous quota of restaurants celebrates French gastronomy, respecting principles of high-quality and environmentally responsible cuisine. This year, over 3,000 restaurants and 150 embassies took part, stretched over five continents....