Month: August 2023

Preliminary results from major trial show use of technology almost halves human workload From smart stethoscopes to predicting bed demand: how AI can support healthcare The use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening is safe and can almost halve the workload of radiologists, according to the world’s most comprehensive trial of its kind. Breast …

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Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of photographing the moon Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast With the August 2023 supermoon rising tonight, also known as a sturgeon full moon, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try to get an …

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Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers Meta has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada, the company said on Tuesday. The move comes in response to legislation in the country requiring internet giants to pay news publishers. …

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Whether you enter the big green pipe to Super Nintendo World, or want to rummage through rare games in Tokyo’s Electric Town, Japan is a video game paradise The experience of travelling in Japan is simultaneously overwhelming and freeing. The world feels bigger out there, gilded by how mainstream video game culture is in comparison …

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GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 propose weakening safeguards that limit training of AI models with bulk personal datasets The UK intelligence agencies are lobbying the government to weaken surveillance laws they argue place a “burdensome” limit on their ability to train artificial intelligence models with large amounts of personal data. The proposals would make it easier …

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It is much more likely your message will be opened if you send it on a Sunday afternoon than a busy working day. But it might make you pretty unpopular … Name: Work emails. Age: The first email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971 to himself, reading “QWERTYUIOP”. Continue reading… It is …

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Rafaela Vasquez pleads guilty to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car The backup Uber driver for a self-driving vehicle that killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in 2018 pleaded guilty Friday to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car. Arizona state judge David Garbarino, who accepted …

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Co-creative directors Mathieu Beaudelin and Kevin Poupard are tight-lipped about the story but their meditative take on mountaineering gives players a taste of being an elite climber For those whose feel the call of the mountains, video games have proved abundant recently: Death Stranding, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Sable all …

‘A dance with the mountain’: can Jusant take video game climbing to new heights? Read More »

AI uses huge amounts of electricity and water to work, and the problem is only going to get worse – what can be done? • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Technology never exists in a vacuum, and the rise of cryptocurrency in the last two or …

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Service between Stromness to Hoy and Graemsay is Royal Mail’s first permanent drone delivery service Royal Mail has begun using drones to deliver post in the Orkney islands, helping pave the way for drone deliveries to islands around the UK and on the mainland during emergencies. The service between the village of Stromness on Orkney’s …

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