Month: November 2023

Guests at Bored Ape event in Hong Kong struck by vision problems

More than a dozen attenders of NFT group’s festival, which used ultraviolet light, complained of ‘eye burn’ on social media The company behind the Bored Ape crypto art craze is looking into reports that people have been suffering from eye burn, extreme pain and impaired vision after attending one of its events, which was lit …

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OpenAI offers to pay for ChatGPT customers’ copyright lawsuits

At its first showcase, the ChatGPT creator unveiled an app store, a new AI model, and a legal strategy for copyright infringement suits Rather than remove copyrighted material from ChatGPT’s training dataset, the chatbot’s creator is offering to cover its clients’ legal costs for copyright infringement suits. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Monday: “We …

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Cloud service firms lock customers in while nickel-and-diming them

It’s a company’s dream business model – the services are too difficult to switch, and small price hikes are often overlooked Netflix recently announced another price increase. It was just a couple of bucks. No big deal, right? Wrong. This price increase comes after another announced increase back in 2022 and this time actually ranges …

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Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson thank Elon Musk for reinstating them on X

Former Daily Mail columnist and far-right agitator show their gratitude after rejoining social media platform The former Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins and the far-right agitator Tommy Robinson have thanked Elon Musk for reinstating their accounts on X after being banned for “hateful conduct”. Hopkins, who found fame as a candidate on BBC’s The Apprentice, …

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Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones review: supreme comfort and noise cancelling

Commuter favourite gets premium upgrade with immersive sound and better Bluetooth – but huge price tag Bose’s latest top of the range headphones break new ground with a more premium look, advanced connectivity, immersive spatial audio and a supremely comfortable design. And a hefty price tag. The QuietComfort Ultra headphones cost an eye-watering £450 (€500/$429/A$649) …

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How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content

Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earnings In September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours. His followers were suitably wowed – until some started to question if …

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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’

The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition Fei-Fei Li is a pioneer of modern artificial intelligence (AI). Her work provided a crucial ingredient – big data – for the deep learning breakthroughs that occurred in …

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Elon Musk unveils Grok, an AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious streak’

Boss of X said tech being tested is inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Elon Musk has unveiled Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot with a “rebellious streak” inspired by The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Tesla CEO, who warned last week that AI was “one of the biggest threats to humanity”, said the …

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British biotech races US’s ‘buff billionaires’ for secret of eternal youth

The UK excels at ‘longevity research’. Could it become part of an industry that fascinates the wealthiest people in the world? About a decade ago, 125 amateur cyclists from all over the UK filed into the laboratories at King’s College London. Aged between 55 and 79, they were there to participate in a long-term study …

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