Month: June 2022

The interests of a significant minority are being neglected as everyday tasks are conducted via smartphones and tablets On the eve of this week’s rail strikes, it was reported that industry bosses are planning to phase out paper train tickets and shut almost 1,000 station ticket offices in England. The government says nothing has been …

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Federal court approves settlement between Australia’s competition watchdog and tech company over phones marketed as water-resistant Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Samsung has agreed to pay a $14m penalty for misleading claims that seven of its Galaxy phones were water-resistant …

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Verification in US will require youngsters to provide video or find three adults to vouch for them Instagram will start testing strong age verification for the first time, requiring users who try to change their age from under-18 to over-18 to either upload a video selfie for automatic age verification, or find three adults to …

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Technology promises ability to ‘make the memories last’ by mimicking the voice of anyone it hears Amazon plans to let people turn their dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistants, with the company promising the ability to “make the memories last”. The company is developing technology that will allow its Alexa digital assistant to mimic …

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The comedian goes down the rabbit hole of petty local disputes in Welcome to the Neighbourhood. Plus: five podcasts that will make you smarter Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here We are now officially halfway through 2022. Which, for podcasts, means one thing: it’s time to take stock of the …

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Changpeng Zhao says people would have been happy with current $20,000 value four years ago Bitcoin could stay below its historical high of $69,000 for the next two years after the latest digital asset market rout, according to the chief executive of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Changpeng Zhao, founder and chief executive of Binance, …

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The comedian is ‘bad at the internet’, but has done her best at sharing her online faves – including a 1990s rugby league ad and a fight from Home and Away I’m bad at the internet. I’ve always been more of an observer than a participant. My cousins were the first in our family to …

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Company also restricts use of custom neural voice technology owing to deepfake concerns Microsoft is overhauling its artificial intelligence ethics policies and will no longer let companies use its technology to do things such as infer emotion, gender or age using facial recognition technology, the company has said. As part of its new “responsible AI …

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Tiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged Scientists have designed a tiny robot-fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from seas and oceans by swimming around and adsorbing them on its soft, flexible, self-healing body. Microplastics are the billions of tiny plastic particles which …

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In this week’s newsletter: Crypto giant Celsius is freezing out users as it tries to solve a mammoth lending crisis. So what happens if money in the bank isn’t really there? Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here If you have a $1,000 balance at Celsius – the …

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