Four Guardian reporters on the platform that defined the early years of their career – and what its end might mean for them For months now, Twitter users have been anticipating the platform’s demise. The technology is buggy and often appears to be breaking down. There’s a new corporate crisis every week. It’s a strange …
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Would wind and fog stop the PhD student getting the shot she was after? Dominika Koszowska is a self-confessed night owl but she had woken up extra early that morning with the goal of capturing the sunrise. The photographer, who is studying for a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, was …
It’s not enough to build learning around a single societal shift. Students should be trained to handle a rapidly changing world “From one day to the next, our profession was wiped out. We woke up and discovered our skills were redundant.” This is what two successful graphic designers told me about the impact of AI. …
San Francisco’s Safe Street Rebel group are disabling autonomous taxis by placing a cone on the hood of the car A group of San Francisco organizers are encouraging people to put traffic cones on the hoods of driverless vehicles as a form of protest against the cars’ expansion on city streets. A video of the …
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Ford’s Mustang Mach-E lets motorists drive hands-free in UK (T&Cs apply: motorways only; don’t look away for too long) Taking your hands off the steering wheel while driving on a busy M11 motorway in Essex at 70mph feels like a counterintuitive leap of faith. When a display flashes blue on the dashboard the moment has …
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While AI revolutionises medicine, bleaker alternatives present themselves, UN’s AI for Good conference finds Humanity is at a crossroads that might be summed up as AI for good v AI gone bad, according to a leading artificial intelligence expert. “I see two futures here,” the author Prof Gary Marcus told the UN’s AI for Good …
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Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app • Could Meta’s Threads deal a knockout blow to Twitter? Mark Zuckerberg’s “Twitter-killer” Threads has reached 70m sign-ups in less than 48 hours, as it more than doubled its growth from its first day on app stores. The new microblogging platform …
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Foundation says words contradict reality of Instagram, which contributed to suicide of London teenager A charity launched by the family of Molly Russell has labelled Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to prioritise kindness on his new Threads app as “absurd”, as the Twitter rival raced part 30 million users less than 24 hours after launch. Molly, 14, …
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Mark Zuckerberg’s rival social network is first serious threat to Twitter since Elon Musk takeover If Threads truly is a Twitter-killer then it claims it is going to do it with “kindness”. Mark Zuckerberg, whose company Meta launched the rival platform this week, put forward the idea that positivity would be a big difference for …
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This week in artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is either going to save humanity or finish it off, depending on who you speak to. Either way, every week there are new developments and breakthroughs. Here are some of the AI stories that have emerged in recent days. • The consumer champion Martin Lewis has urged the …
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