KFC China is using facial recognition tech to serve customers – but are they buying it?

Walking into the KFC restaurant in Beijing’s financial district, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a fried chicken outlet like any other. It’s only if you head right to the back corner of the shop that you realise you’re actually in China’s first smart restaurant. KFC has teamed up with Baidu – the search…

How to find a fact

"5% of British businesses export to the EU." "5% of British VAT-registered businesses export to the EU." "5% of British VAT-registered businesses export to other VAT-registered companies in the EU." All of these claims are partly right, and none of them tell you the whole story about British trade with the EU. During the EU…

How to find a fact: vanishing asylum seekers

"REVEALED: Britain’s immigration crisis laid bare as 12,000 asylum seekers VANISH" We spotted this headline last month. What was going on here? Had 12,000 asylum seekers actually disappeared into thin air? The implication of this article was that 12,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in the UK have been “lost” by Home Office officials: we don’t know…

Investigation: the true nature of Cambridge’s investments

This summer, Varsity has been working with the CUSU Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Campaign on an investigation into the investment practices of Cambridge colleges. This has brought to light some colleges’ ethically irresponsible revenue streams, raising serious questions about the monetary source of the facilities and bursaries which we as students benefit so greatly from. The University of Cambridge…