I was attacked online for presenting evidence on Covid – it made me reflect on how we can rebuild public faith in science Last year, as the number of Italians getting a fourth booster dose of the Covid vaccine waned, the country’s ministry of health asked me, as a scientist, to appear on a 50-second …
Tech company plays catchup after Microsoft’s deal with ChatGPT developer in January Amazon is to invest up to $4bn (£3.2bn) in the startup Anthropic, which has created a rival to ChatGPT called Claude, as the Silicon Valley giant seeks to keep pace with rivals including Microsoft and Google in the race to dominate the artificial …
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You will need time, space, fiddly components and patience – but it can be a deeply satisfying process that won’t break your bank Two years ago, I built my first PC – let’s just say it did not go smoothly. After painstakingly constructing the entire machine, nothing happened when I switched it on. After several …
Making a monster: how to build a budget gaming PC without losing your mind Read More »
Rishi Sunak to highlight risk criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence when he attends global safety summit Experts disagree over threat posed but artificial intelligence cannot be ignored Concerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of world leaders, as concern grows in …
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Compact buds with solid battery life are boosted by Dolby surround sound for music and movies Bluetooth pioneers Jabra are back with a new set of noise-cancelling earbuds offering a comfortable fit and advanced Dolby Atmos spatial audio for Android and iPhone. The Elite 10 cost £230 (€250/$250/A$380), undercutting chief rivals from Apple, Bose and …
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Tech companies see big benefits in making drugs, harvesting stem cells and growing crystals in ‘off-Earth’ conditions So far, the public faces of the new space race have been billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson joyriding around in rockets, having maybe the most expensive midlife crises ever. But behind the scenes, big tech is …
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Some say the existential dangers of a ‘God-like’ AI is overplayed but even then there are other impacts to be wary of For some AI experts, a watershed moment in artificial intelligence development is not far away. And the global AI safety summit, to be held at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire in November, therefore cannot …
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The developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo break, on what makes a good ‘peetime’ and how the program helped him meet his wife Created out of personal necessity by North Carolina-based developer Dan Gardner during a near three-and-a-half-hour King Kong screening, RunPee is an app that …
Dan Gardner wanted to know when to go to the loo during films – so he built an app Read More »
After recent building failures, researchers are looking to ancient materials for inspiration in creating more durable materials that repair themselves using glue or even bacteria Concrete research gets caricatured as the epitome of dull – until the roof falls in. The dangerous state of many British schools built partly from reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) …
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The chatbot GPT-4 has produced more viable commercial ideas more efficiently and more cheaply than US university students In all the frenzied discourse about large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 there is one point on which everyone seems to agree: these models are essentially stochastic parrots – namely, machines that are good at generating …
