Month: December 2023

Button letting moderators flag video content in language they do not understand has been removed, source says TikTok moderators have struggled to assess content related to the Israel-Gaza conflict because the platform removed an internal tool for flagging videos in a foreign language, the Guardian has been told. The change has meant moderators in Europe …

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US technologist loses dispute with Intellectual Property Office over ideas generated by program Artificial intelligence cannot be legally named as an inventor to secure patent rights, the UK supreme court has ruled. In a judgment on Wednesday, Britain’s highest court concluded that “an inventor must be a person” in order to apply for patents under …

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Experts on tech, politics and culture weigh in on the year the hype faded and what could come next Remember 2022? Elon Musk had just been named Time’s Person of The Year, Marvel still ruled the box office, Tucker Carlson was the most-watched host on cable news and it seemed as if all of life …

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Questions for tech giant over claims underage users can remain on platform if they say parents are overseeing their account TikTok faces questions over safeguards for child users after a Guardian investigation found that moderators were being told to allow under-13s to stay on the platform if they claimed their parents were overseeing their accounts. …

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Board describes the two videos, which were reinstated, as valuable for ‘informing the world about human suffering on both sides’ Meta’s oversight board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages and injured people in the Israel-Hamas conflict, saying the videos were valuable to understanding human suffering in …

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The actor, who also starred in film and television for decades, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer James McCaffrey, the actor who provided the voice of the titular character of the Max Payne video games, has died aged 65. The actor died on Sunday at his home in Larchmont, New York, …

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Simon Thomas knew the periodic table by heart at six. Now the Cambridge firm’s co-founder is putting his scientific brain behind graphene’s power to help us compete with China The first thing visitors to Paragraf’s lab, in the Cambridgeshire village of Somersham, are shown is a thin disc made of synthetic sapphire with a piece …

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Low-cost, low-quality ‘everything’ stores such as Temu, Shein and Amazon make buying stuff easier than ever – but it comes at a cost • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the free newsletter here This year, like retirees are wont to do, my dad got extremely into a very specific hobby. …

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Prof Michael Wooldridge has been an AI researcher for more than 30 years, and in the year that AI was supercharged by ChatGPT, he is giving the Royal Institution’s Christmas lectures on the truth about AI. The Guardian science correspondent Nicola Davis sat down with him to find out how he sees AI evolving, what …

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The company was accused of overcharging consumers but did not admit wrongdoing Google has agreed to pay US$700m and to allow for greater competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers disclosed in a San Francisco federal court. Google was accused of overcharging consumers …

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