Tech billionaire, 38, surprises onlookers by winning gold and silver medal at tournament in Redwood City, California Mark Zuckerberg is adding one more title to his résumé: medal-winning martial artist. The Facebook and Meta founder won gold and silver medals at his very first Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament in Redwood City, California, to the shock of …
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‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawn The UK government risks sleepwalking into a confrontation with WhatsApp that could lead to the messaging app disappearing from Britain, ministers have been warned, with options for an amicable resolution fast running out. At the centre of the row …
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A tour of the sites, featuring fake facts and odd wording, left me wondering what was real Breaking news from celebritiesdeaths.com: the president is dead. At least that’s what the highly reliable website informed its readers last month, under the no-nonsense headline “Biden dead. Harris acting president, address 9am ET”. The site explained that Joe …
Nearly 50 news websites are ‘AI-generated’, a study says. Would I be able to tell? Read More »
Buzzfeed, Vice, Gawker and Drudge Report are all traffic-war casualties, but they succeeded in shaking up the media landscape Toward the end of Traffic, a new account of the early rock n roll years of internet publishing, Ben Smith writes that the failings of Buzzfeed News had come about as a result of a “utopian …
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Ben Smith was BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief when it was at its peak. He explains how the groundbreaking site and its rivals changed the media – and sowed the seeds for their own demise In any technological advance there is a golden age in which, for pioneers and believers, remaking the world seems within their grasp. For …
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The pandemic ushered in an era of ‘quiet quitting’ and ‘bare minimum Mondays’ but workers have since lost leverage It seems that it was only yesterday that the media was filled with stories about workers calling the shots. There were the work-from-homers who refused to come back to the office after the pandemic was long …
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In an important new book, US economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson propose ways in which digital technology can be repurposed for human flourishing as well as private profit “Those who cannot remember the past,” wrote the American philosopher George Santayana in 1905, “are condemned to repeat it.” And now, 118 years later, here come …
Power and Progress review – why the tech-equals-progress narrative must be challenged Read More »
With above-inflation increases, tips and tricks to find the right plan are even more important There’s a dizzying array of mobile phone tariffs, and with many providers recently imposing above-inflation increases, it is even more important to choose the right deal. So how can you navigate the networks to get a plan that is right …
Employees at Lithuanian freight operator Girteka complain of hard conditions on the road, including one who says he fell seriously ill but co-drove his truck 800 miles after emerging from hospital Drivers for one of Europe’s biggest delivery firms, which works for Amazon, Ikea and DHL, claim they are being left with no option but …
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Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note Last Monday an eminent, elderly British scientist lobbed a grenade into the febrile anthill of researchers and corporations currently obsessed with artificial intelligence or AI (aka, for the most part, a technology called machine learning). The scientist …
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