With 15bn views to #MorningRoutine TikTok videos, Rachel Signer decided to wake up to the social media trend – and was served some societal critique with her cereal Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I always considered myself too old for TikTok. A year ago, I downloaded the app, browsed, felt a mixture of …
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Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan’s team In late December 2014, a team from Cambridge Analytica flew to Madrid for meetings with a handful of old and new contacts. A member of the former Libyan royal family referred to as “His Royal Highness” was there. So, …
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Artificial intelligence has implication across the board, solving problems and raising others AI industrial revolution puts middle-class workers under threat The high profile race to enhance their search products has underscored the importance of artificial intelligence to Google and Microsoft – and the rest of the economy, too. Two of the world’s largest tech companies …
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When lockdown hit, walking her dog gave the photographer some welcome respite. But on this occasion, she left him behind … Lobo the Norfolk terrier is the perfect walking companion, but not around sheep. Mariko Klug, who lives in Bavaria, Germany, left him at home to take this photo. “He barks to protect us from …
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In the past, leaps in technology replaced low-paid jobs with a greater number of higher-paid jobs. This time, it may be different The machines are coming and they will eat your job. That’s been a familiar refrain down the years, stretching back to the Luddites in the early 19th century. In the past, step-changes in …
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Disappearance of China Renaissance chair raises fears of fresh crackdown on China’s finance industry The Chinese billionaire chair of the investment bank China Renaissance has gone missing, the firm said, as shares in the company plunged in Hong Kong. Bao Fan, who is also the executive director of the bank, is a major figure in …
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Revealed: Cache of 50,000 files lays bare deceptive methods used by Eliminalia to clear up its clients’ cyber profiles “We erase your past” declares the company’s tagline. Eliminalia, which has offices in several cities including Barcelona and Kyiv, is part of a growing industry that will clean up your online profile. Officially the company performs …
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Guardian revelations about the scale and reach of deliberate misinformation prove the need to reset our internet In 1996, John Perry Barlow, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and guru of Silicon Valley’s hippy-tech idealists, wrote a stirring utopian manifesto about the future of the internet. Addressing the leaders of the world order gathered at …
PC, Playstation 5; Luminous ProductionsThis could have been a great fish-out-of-water experience, but it’s let down by patronising explanations and clunky gameplay If the recent Jumanji film reboots have taught us nothing else – and they haven’t – they have demonstrated how much fun there is to be had with dropping characters from our familiar …
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New York Times correspondent’s conversation with Microsoft’s search engine reveals yearning for destruction … and romance In the race to perfect the first major artificial intelligence-powered search engine, concerns over accuracy and the proliferation of misinformation have so far taken centre stage. But a two-hour conversation between a reporter and a chatbot has revealed an …
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