Month: November 2023

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They have higher emissions, hog roadspace and are more dangerous for other road users. Yet SUVs are selling better than ever. As calls for curbs increase, some people are taking matters into their own hands It’s midnight on the edge of Clapham Common in early September. The streets are eerily quiet as a shadowy figure …

Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs? Read More »

Worm Club; PlayStation 4/5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox OneAll three cases of the indie sleeper hit are collated in one wry, enjoyable package that’s perfect for a lazy afternoon’s detecting The frog detective – for you are he – doesn’t hop, but lopes around on his stratospheric legs, wearing cropped denim shorts and an architect’s long-sleeved …

Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery review – whimsical whodunnits Read More »

Despite Rishi Sunak’s summit and Joe Biden’s executive order on the safety of AI, it’s the tech giants that really need reining in Earlier last week, just around the time when the driver of Rishi Sunak’s armoured Jaguar might have been thinking about typing “Bletchley Park” into the limousine’s satnav, Joe Biden was in the …

AI is not the problem, prime minister – but the corporations that control it are | John Naughton Read More »

Artificial intelligence being used to unpick meanings behind vocal and physical cues of host of creatures If an unexpected meow, peculiar pose, or unusual twitch of the whiskers leaves you puzzling over what your cat is trying to tell you, artificial intelligence may soon be able to translate. Scientists are turning to new technology to …

If we could talk to the animals: scientists turn to AI for help Read More »

The photographer was staring out of the window at work when something exciting, visually intriguing yet entirely everyday caught his eye Before he became a professional photographer and videographer, Anthony Edralin worked as an analyst for Sky TV. On the day this shot was taken, they had recently moved to new offices, and Edralin found …

‘It was odd to see someone standing in a 30ft-high window’: Anthony Edralin’s best phone picture Read More »

Jury did not believe T-shirt, cargo shorts and messy hair could prevent someone defrauding people out of billions of dollars For several years, Sam Bankman-Fried cut the figure of an unstoppable tech founder. With his trademark uniform of a T-shirt and shorts, and a mop of dark curls, Bankman-Fried courted investors big and small with …

Dramatic fall for Sam Bankman-Fried and ‘unkempt visionary’ persona Read More »

Billionaire makes ‘emotional decision’ to return to childhood home to be near parents and Blue Origin space business The Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Thursday he was moving to his childhood home of Miami from Seattle to be near his parents and his space firm Blue Origin’s Cape Canaveral operations. “As exciting as the …

So long, Seattle: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he is moving to Miami Read More »

Using AI to create less and better work would benefit society but getting rid of it altogether would be unproductive, experts say Oscar Wilde thought hard work “the refuge” of those with nothing better to do while he envisaged a society of “cultivated leisure” as machines performed the necessary and unpleasant tasks. Karl Marx’s dream …

No utopia: experts question Elon Musk’s vision of world without work Read More »

By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’ A WhatsApp feature that generates images in response to users’ searches returns a picture of a gun or a boy with a gun when prompted with the terms “Palestinian”, “Palestine” or “Muslim boy …

WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’ Read More »