Month: December 2023

‘Like an unnecessarily horny seaside postcard’: Yorkshire comedy game Thank Goodness You’re Here!

In a sea of Portakabins in Shoreditch, a pair of best friends are making a very British surreal comedy game based on their northern home town ‘Thank goodness you’re here!” says a panic-stricken patron of Rog’s Veg Hall. The shop owner has lost his rag after overhearing a comment about his corn-shaped head, leading to …

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‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza

Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory Israel-Hamas war – live updates Israel’s military has made no secret of the intensity of its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In the early days of the offensive, the head of its air force spoke of relentless, “around …

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Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? – archive, 1 December 1983

1 December 1983: Electronic mail tends to be informal in style encouraging people to send brazen messages but even if you are abroad, work can follow you wherever you are A colleague and I were in different parts of the United States recently and were due to meet at an international airport. I arrived to …

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