Month: December 2022

Arrest just 24 hours before founder of cryptocurrency exchange was to testify before US Congress The Bahamas police have arrested former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the country’s attorney general said in a statement on Monday, adding that the Bahamas has received formal notification from the US of criminal charges against him. Bankman-Fried is expected to …

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For one weird year, I was the human who stepped in to make sure a property chatbot didn’t blow its cover – I was a person pretending to be a computer pretending to be a person The recruiter was a chipper woman with a master’s degree in English. Previously she had worked as an independent …

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We test what devices consume, with households increasingly worried about rising energy prices How much does it cost to charge your phone or your toothbrush? Is it really cheaper to use the microwave to cook your food, as has been suggested? With the cost of electricity putting the squeeze on all our finances, and a …

Does a kettle use more electricity than a TV? How much power your gadgets use Read More »

The firm’s turmoil appears to deepen since Elon Musk’s takeover with Yoel Roth forced to flee home amid personal attacks Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council on Monday night, just moments before it was scheduled to meet with company representatives. The council was an advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, …

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The new Twitter owner, Elon Musk, was booed for almost 10 minutes after he was introduced on stage by comedian Dave Chappelle on Sunday at the Chase Center in San Francisco. ‘Ladies and gentleman make some noise for the richest man in the world,’ said Chappelle, as Musk walked on stage with his two arms …

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At a stage appearance Sunday with comedian Dave Chappelle, the audience made their disapproval of the new Twitter owner known The polite version is that it didn’t go quite according to plan when Elon Musk made his most recent stage appearance. “Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” the …

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Those willing to pay $8 on the web or $11 a month via Apple’s app store will get more prominence Twitter is relaunching its subscription service on Monday, offering users verified status for $8 (£6.50) a month or $11 a month on their iPhone. The move follows a botched revamp of the service last month …

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Machine learning research into changing attitudes to women in the US reveals it’s not just technology that has progressed People love new technology. Last week, half the internet was experimenting with ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence chatbot that can write text on almost any subject under the sun with only the most basic of instructions. …

How do we make sense of changing human social norms? Ask a bot, of course | Torsten Bell Read More »

Scientists are hoping ‘historical biomolecules’ on a 15th-century missive written by Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s vampire count, will reveal more about him On a dark and stormy night in May this year, exactly 125 years to the day that Bram Stoker published the definitive vampire novel, two people pored over a document …

What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges Read More »

It has been hailed as the AI program that could spell the end of search engines, but we should beware putting our trust in a machine As the capabilities of natural language processing technology continue to advance, there is a growing hype around the potential of chatbots and conversational AI systems. One such system, ChatGPT, …

ChatGPT can tell jokes, even write articles. But only humans can detect its fluent bullshit | Kenan Malik Read More »