Month: August 2023

Artificial intelligence could take personalized service a new, possibly sinister level – but can a chatbot replace a chef? In the world of ultra-fine dining, service must run like clockwork. A team of specialists work together to create a seamless experience for customers from the point of booking reservations to the time the check is …

Creepily customized dishes and facial recognition: how might AI change fine dining? Read More »

Artist and designer Harry Nesbitt explains how his game pays homage to a countryside practice stretching back through history In the soft, rolling hills of the Derbyshire dales the grass is clipped to just a few centimetres by gently bleating sheep. For game artist and designer Harry Nesbitt who grew up here, this countryside is …

One man and his dog: Summerhill turns shepherding into a video game puzzle Read More »

I’ve been waiting to replay this taut, sometimes beautiful western since I binged it years ago. But fans are right to fear that a new port may not live up to its potential • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s my birthday today, and Rockstar has been kind enough …

Why Red Dead Redemption’s return could be another rerelease gone wrong Read More »

Outsourcer Sama facing legal cases brought by Kenya-based employees alleging exposure to graphic content The chief executive of a company contracted to moderate Facebook posts in east Africa has said she regretted taking on the work, after its staff said they were left traumatised by graphic content on the social media platform. The US outsourcing …

CEO regrets her firm took on Facebook moderation work after staff traumatised Read More »

America’s richest and most cowardly man, Musk, proposed an idiotic cage-match, then came up with every excuse not to actually do it Never challenge anyone to a fight. Not even if you think you would win. Especially not if you think you would win. To break this commandment is to invite the wrath of all …

Elon Musk won’t fight Mark Zuckerberg – because he knows he will lose | Hamilton Nolan Read More »

A dating-app meet goes wrong at the beginning of this action game when the world as we know it abruptly ends – but that won’t stop love from flourishing Eternights combines the action-packed spectacle of a PlatinumGames title with a darkly funny dating simulator. At the beginning of the game’s Steam demo, you are building …

Dating at the end of the world: in Eternights, even the apocalypse can’t stand in the way of love Read More »

The rise of AI will destroy jobs – but also create them. And if you didn’t nab that £700,000 role at Netflix, there are plenty of new positions in the offing, many in surprising areas The conversation about AI and the workplace is understandably dominated by the downsides – after decades of automation eliminating manufacturing …

Will AI steal my job? Maybe – but here are some possible new opportunities Read More »

When content posted from critical news outlets and competitor apps was clicked, it opened a blank screen, delaying access Social media giant Twitter appeared to apply a five-second delay that would slow access to sites – a process known as throttling – including to the New York Times, Reuters, Instagram and Blue Sky, another social …

Twitter appears to delay links by five seconds to sites Elon Musk dislikes Read More »

The head of the UK tech startup is as passionate about self-driving ‘autonomy’ as Elon Musk – but thinks it could be 20 years away Driverless cars are here – if you happen to live in San Francisco, at least. Regulators voted last week to allow two companies to run driverless taxi services in the …

‘Driverless cars are the hardest problem you could want to solve’ – Oxa’s Gavin Jackson Read More »

When a pregnant Black woman was falsely arrested, she fought back. Here’s what happened next. Plus, the week in AI • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when police in Detroit, Michigan came to arrest her on charges of carjacking and …

‘Are you kidding, carjacking?’: The problem with facial recognition in policing Read More »