Month: January 2024

Tech giant among others – including Amazon and Meta – to cut workforce as business predictions slowed down in the past year Google has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance and engineering teams as part of cost-cutting measures. The cuts come as Google looks towards “responsibly investing in our company’s …

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Kelly Carlin decried comedy special on YouTube that generated a fake Carlin, saying ‘no machine will ever replace his genius’ Kelly Carlin, American radio host and daughter of the late comedian George Carlin, has criticized the release of a new comedy special featuring an AI-generated version of her father, who died in 2008 due to …

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PC, PS4/5, Switch, Xbox; UbisoftThoroughly reimagined new iteration of 34-year-old series opens up a labyrinthine world littered with enemies and traps to overcome Fixed in the sky above the entrance to Mount Qaf is a titanic statue frozen in the moment of its destruction; the pieces of a granite head shattered into chunks hang suspended …

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Funding comes amid concerns transition to zero-carbon transportation isn’t keeping pace with goals to tackle climate crisis Joe Biden’s administration has unveiled $623m in funding to boost the number of electric vehicle charging points in the US, amid concerns that the transition to zero-carbon transportation isn’t keeping pace with goals to tackle the climate crisis. …

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Mobeen Azhar explores ‘jawdropping’ cases from the criminal underworld in Catching the Kingpins. Plus: five of the best podcasts about real-life stories • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Great news for anyone who enjoyed 2022’s hit true-crime podcast Bible John – the BBC has just announced that it’s developing …

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Chinese artist responds to debate about data-scraping as he prepares for new collaboration with AI Art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence is “meaningless”, according to the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who believes even Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse would have had to rethink their approach if AI had existed in their …

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Hackers posted false news about a widely anticipated announcement that the SEC was expected to make about bitcoin The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Wednesday that is working with the FBI to investigate a fake message posted on its X social media account. On Tuesday hackers posted false news about a widely anticipated …

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Through the new product models, chatbot agents could be developed with their own personalities or themes OpenAI on Wednesday launched its GPT Store, a marketplace where paid ChatGPT users can buy and sell specialized chatbot agents based on the company’s language models. The company, whose wildly popular product ChatGPT helped kickstart the boom in AI, …

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Internal note says company has ‘identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain areas’ amid wave of layoffs Amazon will lay off several hundred employees in its streaming and studio operations, according to an internal note sent on Wednesday. The announcement came the same day as the live-streaming company Twitch, a subsidiary of the …

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How do smartphones really affect us – and our kids? We spoke to five experts with different viewpoints to capture the current state of discussion • Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone In 2007, Steve Jobs presented the iPhone to the public. Several months later, …

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