Shot at dawn | Emergency alerts at evensong | A message to Airstrip One | Ofsted’s ‘inadequate’ | Jack Nicholson in Reds Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead’s piece (Country diary, 24 April) is probably the most emotionally charged article I’ve seen in over 40 years of reading the Guardian. I have sons the same age as these young …
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Regulator calls for better promotion of offers available to low-income households receiving benefits More than 4m UK households may be missing out on deeply discounted savings on their broadband bills, the telecoms regulator has said as it called for better promotion of the offers for those receiving benefits. Only 220,000 households have signed up to …
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He’s been at PlayStation since the beginning, and seen the games industry transform beyond recognition. He talks unlikely successes, AI, and gaming’s future In early 1993, Shuhei Yoshida joined Sony’s nascent PlayStation division as a business development guy – the first member of the team who didn’t have an engineering background. When he was working …
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On Sunday millions of phones blared signal simultaneously under government test but for some it did not go as planned On Sunday millions of phones blared an emergency signal simultaneously under a UK-wide government test. However, a number of handsets received the alert late – or not at all. Here we answer your questions on …
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The site will remain online as an archive, alongside the Gawker reboot, the Toast, and a host of other defunct outlets The closure of BuzzFeed News this week followed a familiar script for those who have followed the rise and fall of digital media. There were Twitter eulogies from current and former staff and op-eds …
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With more than half of people now gamers, film and TV versions of their favourites can get the kind of high scores others can only dream of For fans of Mario and Luigi, the moustachioed plumbers who began life as blocky 2D pixels in the early 1980s, the prospect of a $100m feature film stuffed …
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This debut feature dissects the ethical dilemmas that arise when an AI is used to entrap paedophiles, but it fails to translate its ideas into a cogent argument Probing the ethical implications surrounding the use of AI, Franklin Ritch’s debut feature hinges on a high-concept premise: an entirely digital avatar of a young girl named …
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Decision to reinstate ‘verified’ status without distinguishing paid-for from free users prompts criticism for ‘false advertising’ Twitter has again U-turned over its verification policy, restoring the “blue tick” free of charge to celebrity users of the social network. But the site’s decision to reinstate the “verified” status without distinguishing between paid-for and free users has …
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Network’s users report en masse that SMS, accompanied by piercing 10-second tone, never arrived UK emergency alert test: live updates The mobile network Three said it was investigating why many of its users failed to receive an emergency alert from the government, the first nationwide test for the UK’s new national warning system. The alarm …
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Google boss says issue keeps him up at night, while thousands have urged six-month pause on creation of ‘giant’ AIs When the boss of Google admits to losing sleep over the negative potential of artificial intelligence, perhaps it is time to get worried. Sundar Pichai told the CBS programme 60 Minutes this month that AI …
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