Bluetooth buds have standout design, noise cancelling and work with Android and iPhone The Ear 2 are the latest competitively priced earbuds from the London-based tech firm Nothing, which hopes to tempt buyers away from the Apples and Samsungs of this world with novel see-through designs and good sound. The noise-cancelling earbuds cost £129 ($149), …
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Calculation based on leaked offer to staff that implies firm valued at $2obn compared with $44bn he bought it for Twitter is worth less than half of what Elon Musk paid for it six months ago having lost more than $20bn (£16.4bn) in value, according to calculations based on a leaked memo from the billionaire. …
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Tech chief says the development of chatbots is a more worthwhile use of processing power than crypto mining The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not “bring anything useful for society” despite the company’s powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector. Michael Kagan, its chief technology officer, said other uses of processing …
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The journalist and academic says that the bias encoded in artificial intelligence systems can’t be fixed with better data alone – the change has to be societal Meredith Broussard is a data journalist and academic whose research focuses on bias in artificial intelligence (AI). She has been in the vanguard of raising awareness and sounding …
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Mastercard has cuts its ties with the Maps payments app run by British-educated cryptocurrency tycoon Alex Grebnev, who was backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, amid a row over Russian users As western brands began the stampede out of Russia a year ago, its citizens found themselves unable to pay for the international goods and services with …
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A third of Australian companies rely on artificial intelligence to help them hire the right person. But studies show it’s not always a benign intermediary Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Michael Scott, the protagonist from the US version of The Office, is using an AI recruiter to …
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Artificial intelligence’s ChatGPT is becoming more sophisticated and polished than ever. In seconds, it will knock out essays, lyrics, poems, almost anything… But could it beat Jay Rayner at his own game? One afternoon an email arrives that threatens to end my career. Or at the very least, it makes me think seriously about what …
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Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections Private thoughts may not be private for much longer, heralding a nightmarish world where political views, thoughts, stray obsessions and feelings could be interrogated and punished all thanks to …
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Move by Greater London authority comes after Chinese-owned app was blocked on UK parliamentary devices London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban imposed on the Chinese-owned social media app over security concerns. The Greater London authority (GLA) said the rule was implemented as it takes information …
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Engineer, whose microchip forecast became known as ‘Moore’s Law’, foresaw mobile phones and home computers decades before they existed Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose “Moore’s Law” predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, has died at the age of 94, the company announced. Intel and Moore’s …
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