Backhug’s 26 mechanical fingers offer personalised joint care. How much can it do for me in six weeks? Imagine having a live-in masseur available to pummel away at your aching back at the end of each day; one who never gets tired, or suggests that maybe it is time for you to return the favour. …
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Limits on number of tweets users can see have prevented National Weather Service from receiving key reports Twitter’s new volume limits on viewing posts suddenly left several National Weather Service (NWS) offices across the US unable to receive tweets from storm spotters who help with tracking extreme weather, including during storms this week – prompting …
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Exclusive: Prof Stuart Russell says technology could result in ‘fewer teachers being employed – possibly even none’ Recent advances in AI are likely to spell the end of the traditional school classroom, one of the world’s leading experts on AI has predicted. Prof Stuart Russell, a British computer scientist based at the University of California, …
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Artificial intelligence is already advancing at a worrying pace. What if we don’t slam on the brakes? Experts explain what keeps them up at night Five ways AI could improve the world Artificial intelligence has progressed so rapidly in recent months that leading researchers have signed an open letter urging an immediate pause in its …
Meta has been struggling with layoffs, a fledgling metaverse and a decreasing audience. The company needs its new big bet to pay off Meta has launched a “Twitter killer” app, a nearly direct copy of the microblogging platform that was built to lure users away from the increasingly-dysfunctional Elon Musk-owned company. But will it bring …
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The annual Crap Games Competition has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years. It all began with an April fool’s joke in a magazine called Your Sinclair … Retro video games have never been more popular, mostly because gamers have never been older. The home-computer generation of players are now in their …
In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a lawyer for the Elon Musk-owned app reportedly said Meta had unlawfully misappropriated trade secrets Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, the news outlet Semafor reported on Thursday. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg published by Semafor, a lawyer for Twitter said …
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Sapiens author tells Geneva summit proliferation of fake people on social media could lead to collapse in democracy The creators of AI bots that masquerade as people should face harsh criminal sentences comparable to those who trade in counterfeit currency, the Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari has said. He also called for sanctions, …
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Site has potential to suck the remaining life – and advertising revenue – out of Musk’s struggling network Imagine a social network where users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves that it is impossible to imagine them leaving. Moving to a new site would be an enormous risk for …
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Meta founder says rival platform will ‘focus on kindness’ as it claims 10 million users hours after launch Mark Zuckerberg took a swipe at Elon Musk’s Twitter on Thursday as his competitor to the platform, Threads, announced 10 million sign-ups within hours of its launch. The chief executive and founder of Meta used his new …
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