Patrick Racz is in a long-running patent fight with the tech company over claims it stole his filesharing and payment system for iTunes As a plumbing tycoon, Patrick Racz was used to enduring a deluge. But circumstances led to a very different kind of drenching, sitting in his local park in the rain contemplating the …
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US lawyers approached about class action against Midjourney and other AI firms accused of ‘copyright laundering’ Since the emergence of Midjourney and other image generators, artists have been watching and wondering whether AI is a great opportunity or an existential threat. Now, after a list of 16,000 names emerged of artists whose work Midjourney had …
Even as more job cuts await, some analysts see the beginnings of a bull market in the coming season of earnings reports Will 2024 be a boom or a bust for big tech? By one estimate, there have been more than 7,500 layoffs in the sector since the start of the year – a dispersal …
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Machine learning from existing weather models is already helping some developing countries with weather forecasts, one researcher says Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Kerry Plowright had his feet up and was watching TV one evening late last year when his phone warned of incoming hail. “I was …
The US country star on learning a new instrument at 40, her favourite place to eat in Nashville and an app she’s happy to have send her to sleep Country singer-songwriter Margo Price was born in Illinois in 1983 and studied dance and theatre at Northern Illinois University. For years, she was a fixture of …
Back in the early 2000s, multiplayer gaming meant lugging huge PCs to friends’ houses or school halls and connecting them with wires to have Lan parties. Early adopters remember that heady time. Introduction by Merritt K Today it is trivially easy to play games on a computer, games console or phone with your friends over …
An iconic Rotterdam location, a passing motorcyclist, and all he had to do was keep his hand steady John Emslie and his wife, Liz, were on a city break to Rotterdam when he took this photo. “We were on the Erasmusbrug, nicknamed the Swan, which links the northern and southern halves of the city,” he …
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A cruise trip advertised as the longest in the world has become its own reality show, with passengers regularly going viral for their video diaries. But is anything actually … happening? Patrick, I do not pretend to understand the arcane machinations behind my TikTok algorithm, but lately it has been delivering me video after video …
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Freezing temperatures across central US have cut electric vehicles’ range and left drivers facing long waits at charging stations For nearly a week, frigid temperatures from Chicago to northern Texas have made life painful for electric-vehicle owners, with reduced driving range and hours of waiting at charging stations. In Oak Brook, Illinois, near Chicago, on …
Can MachineGames’s new first-person adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle live up to the third-person thrills of Indy-influenced hits Uncharted and Tomb Raider? History is not exactly littered with glittering Indiana Jones video games. The beautiful LucasArts adventure, The Fate of Atlantis; the pretty good Lego games; the decent Emporer’s Tomb; the presentable SNES …
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