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Maybe the one single thing more regrettable than drunk texting is drunk tweeting. Publicly broadcasting intoxication is definitely not the best way to bolster one’s social media clout, and yet a lot of people can't resist boasting about their alcoholic escapades. Researchers have now trained an algorithm to spot alcohol-related tweets, and even to guess if the tweeter was drinking at the time of posting.

Nabil Hossain at the University of Rochester, upstate New York, decided to combine Twitter and machine learning to keep track of alcohol use across a given community.

To do that, he and his team collected thousands of geotagged posts tweeted between July 2013 and July 2014 in New York state, and then winnowed them down to tweets containing booze-related keywords (ranging from “beer keg” to “shitfaced").

The Nike HyperAdapt 1.0, on sale later this year

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Nike has unveiled its first pair of commercialised self-lacing shoes, the Nike HyperAdapt 1.0. They will go on sale later this year, but pricing hasn't yet been announced (they won't be cheap).

"When you step in, your heel will hit a sensor and the system will automatically tighten,” explained Tiffany Beers, the project’s technical lead. Nike actually refers to the technology as "adaptive lacing" rather than "self lacing" because there are two buttons on the side of the shoe that allow you to tweak how loose or tight the laces are. In the theory, the laces will then be held in that position, preventing your laces from coming undone while running, slam dunking, or otherwise exerting yourself.

Nike originally announced in October 2015 that it would sell some Back to the Future-esque Nike Mags in spring 2016. Sadly, except for a part of the sole that emits a turquoise light, these HyperAdapt shoes don't look much like Marty McFly's Nike Mags.

Imagination Technologies has confirmed plans to axe 350 jobs—a 5 percent reduction in its staff headcount—as it "accelerates" its multi-million pound cost-cutting strategy announced in February.

The beleaguered British semiconductor supplier told the City on Thursday morning that it needed to shave another £12.5 million off its cost base in addition to the £15 million operating costs slash that it revealed last month, when Imagination's long-serving CEO Sir Hossein Yassaie stepped down from the firm.

Apple and Samsung are among Imagination's high-profile customers. However, a recent slump in growth in iPhone sales has hurt the firm. In February it noted that the slowdown in the semiconductor sector was failing to show any immediate signs of recovery.