Month: December 2022

Times are tough for businesses old and new, but the pace of change in many sectors this year will be relentless The upheavals of recent years have posed huge challenges for established companies, but for others rapid change can mean big opportunities. Entrepreneurs are breaking ground in important new areas, from artificial intelligence to biotechnology …

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Since taking this self-portrait, the photographer says her life has been transformed by motherhood When Tinatin Jabanashvili began studying law in her home town of Tbilisi, Georgia, she left her passions of dancing and acting behind. Photography, she says, took their place; a way to express her feelings, and how she saw the world, without …

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Silicon Valley firm insists its new text generator, which writes human-sounding essays, can overcome fears over cheating ‘A confident bullshitter that can write very convincing nonsense’: not a takedown of an annoying student or a former British prime minister, but a description of an artificial intelligence writing programme that is causing headaches for its makers. …

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Trump tried to impose a total ban on the China-based app and some states have already prohibited its use on official devices The US government has approved an unprecedented ban on the use of TikTok on federal government devices. The restrictions – tucked into a spending bill just days before it was passed by Congress, …

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The move follows a ban by the House, which TikTok said was a ‘political measure that will do nothing’ for national security TikTok has been banned on all federal government devices in the US, with limited exceptions, after Joe Biden signed a $1.7tn (£1.4tn) spending bill on Thursday containing a provision that outlaws the China-based …

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Shares tumble and government bonds hammered by central banks’ interest rate rises FTSE 100 ends 2022 slightly up despite global turmoil Investors are reeling from the worst year in global financial markets since the 2008 financial crisis, as inflation forced central banks around the world to raise interest rates and put an end to the …

Inflation, tech plunge and ‘crypto winter’: global stock markets in 2022 Read More »

The tech industry’s hype machine always trumpets a fresh new ‘genius’ – and it still hasn’t learned its lesson It was a month of eerie parallels. On 12 December, the disgraced crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested on fraud charges in the Bahamas, marking a dramatic end to his reign as the head of the …

Year of the tech grifter: will Silicon Valley ever learn from its mistakes? Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: Cerebral raised millions from investors, but ended under investigation. How did it go wrong? Plus: five podcasts to help you understand British politics Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Shared BaggageAudible, episodes weeklyWhat more reliable source of authoritative life advice could you want than two stand-up …

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A new service offers a way to offset losses from NFTs during a grim crypto winter that saw demand for digital collectibles vanish Just a year ago, Washington DC’s Hirshhorn art museum – the capital’s preeminent contemporary art museum – was asking whether non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were “fad or the future of art”. Twelve months …

Investors convert ‘totally worthless’ NFTs into tax write-offs Read More »

More devices contain recycled materials and are supported for longer, but there is much more to do With a year full of pressures on our wallets, comfort and climate, technology took a back seat in 2022. But change for the better is slowly happening as big tech firms wake up to the demands of consumers …

Guardian tech reviews in 2022: better to repair and longer-lasting devices Read More »