Month: August 2023

Smartphones aren’t the answer for all autistic people | Letters

Elaine Bennett believes the increasing use of technology is only serving to further isolate some people in a neurotypical world I disagree with your correspondent (Letters, 3 August) that a ban on mobile phones in schools will impact pupils with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) negatively. People with ASD are already at risk of being pushed …

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Musk offers to pay legal bills of people ‘unfairly treated’ for posting on platform

Comment comes as company is going through organizational changes and looking to boost falling advertising revenue Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated “unfairly” by employers because of posting or liking something on the site formerly known …

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What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry | John Naughton

People scoffed at the idea of electric vehicles for the masses. But now a Tesla hatchback has outsold the Toyota Corolla An intriguing news item dropped into my inbox this week. It said that in the first quarter of this year, an electric vehicle (EV) had become the biggest-selling car in the world, outselling the …

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‘It’s a special stretch of coast because Mount Etna hovers over it like a spirit’: Antonio Denti’s best phone picture

The Reuters cameraman embraced the opportunity to capture life with his family in Sicily, where he grew up With two decades’ experience as a Reuters cameraman and visual journalist, Antonio Denti says he found the transition to using his phone as a camera jarring. “I was brought up in the analogue days and was quite …

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‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban

Retaliatory move against Online News Act is ‘epic miscalculation’ that will promote spread of misinformation, analysts say Social media giant Meta’s ban on news access on its platforms in Canada is an “epic miscalculation” that could damage journalism and promote the spread of misinformation and fake news, experts are warning. The company announced the move …

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Is artificial intelligence a threat to journalism or will the technology destroy itself? | Samantha Floreani

Hitching a struggling media industry to the wagon of AI won’t serve our interests in the long run Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Before we start, I want to let you know that a human wrote this article. The same can’t be said for many articles from …

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‘He’s clumsy, high, and completely unprepared’: Baby Steps, a game about falling flat on your face

Development trio Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy are back with a story about a failson basement-dweller trying not to fall flat on his face Game developers Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch and Bennett Foddy have been friends for over a decade, having met through NYU’s Game Centre, and they already have one successful indie …

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TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU

Action by regulator follows £12.7m fine by UK for illegally processing data of 1.4m children under 13 TikTok is to be fined potentially millions of pounds for breaching children’s privacy after a ruling by EU data protection regulator. The European Data Protection Board said it had reached a binding decision on the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform …

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