Month: August 2023

Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buy 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and …

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The Colorado-based photographer on the importance of capturing the little things It was only last year, but Kelley Dallas is already a little nostalgic for her daughter’s time with her violin. Emmy, pictured here practising on her bedroom floor in the mid-morning light, had begun playing aged six, three years earlier. The Colorado-based photographer has …

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By posting his mugshot, Trump joins Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene in transforming site now known as X More than two years after Donald Trump was banned from Twitter over concerns that his words would incite violence, Elon Musk welcomed the former president’s return in a move that showed how rapidly the site has …

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Some concerns about artificial intelligence are very speculative, but there are genuine risks, says the man aiming to demystify the technology in the Royal Institution Christmas lectures It has been touted as an existential risk on a par with pandemics. But when it comes to artificial intelligence, at least one pioneer is not losing sleep …

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Big events place a strain on networks but when 6G arrives, many of today’s problems will evaporate This bank holiday weekend is one of the last big dates in the UK summer festival calendar, with Reading and Leeds, All Points East and Creamfields North expected to draw huge crowds. With large attendance numbers at festivals …

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Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT News outlets including the New York Times, CNN, Reuters and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) have blocked a tool from OpenAI, limiting the company’s ability to continue accessing their content. OpenAI is …

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Firm’s relentless focus on AI paid off in spades, with analysts optimistic of further success Business live – latest updates The stock market darling on everyone’s lips is Nvidia, which makes the processing chips that power everything from home computers to industrial machinery to cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology. On Thursday, the company stunned Wall Street …

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Global summit on AI safety planned for autumn, as UK tries to cement image as being home of ‘transformative technologies’ Rishi Sunak’s global summit on the safety of artificial intelligence this autumn will be hosted at Bletchley Park, the home of top-secret codebreakers during the second world war. The first major gathering on the technology …

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I shrugged off my dodgy knee and the grey in my beard. But if my beloved animated graphics are no longer fashionable, does this make me obsolete too? At the risk of sounding like a show-off, I’m really good at gifs. Not the pre-packaged kind: there’s no man-blinking-in-polite-disbelief in my repertoire, no woman-in-a-turquoise-top-doing-a-spit-take, and certainly …

Gifs aren’t cool any more – and now I feel very, very old Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: Steve Coogan’s presenter turned podcaster re-enters the studio for a third season of From the Oasthouse. Plus: five of the best cross-generational podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Eras: Kylie MinogueBBC Sounds, from MondayPop’s pocket-size princess is having something of a Kylie-naissance, thanks …

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