The new ‘mixed-reality’ headset gave me a glimpse of the future – and I’m not sure it’s a future we should want If you ever worry that technology might be getting a little too intelligent and robots are poised to take over the world, I have a quick and easy way to deflate those fears: …
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The company pointed at people who ‘failed to update their passwords’ as sensitive data was offered for sale on forums Three years ago, a man in Florida named JL decided, on a whim, to send a tube of his spit to the genetic testing site 23andMe in exchange for an ancestry report. JL, like millions …
Corded phones are hard to find these days. But for some gen z diehards, they offer nostalgia and real connection Landlines are nearing obsolescence. For many young people, they’ve gone the way of CD-Roms, cassette tapes, and the humble printer. On TikTok, parents film their children holding wall phones like archival pieces, unsure of how …
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A new podcast tries to get to the bottom of one of Hollywood’s greatest lunch-based mysteries. Plus: five of the best podcasts about the occult • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s a varied week for food on podcasts this week. While, on the one hand, Comfort Eating returns …
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Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system that might destroy them? In the doldrum days between Christmas and New Year, we take a family trip to see a datacentre. Over the …
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Chiselled jaws, pouty lips, hunter eyes: everything is up for grabs in the quest to increase ‘sexual market value’. But how did this extreme cosmetic craze become mainstream? For James, it started with muscles. He was about 16 and had become self-conscious about his physique, fearing that he wasn’t buff enough to attract girls. He …
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Decision to move rocket company comes after Musk said he would hold shareholder vote to move Tesla to Texas as well Rocket company SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware, CEO Elon Musk has announced. “SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas! If your company is still …
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US tech giant says it has detected threats from foreign countries that used or attempted to exploit generative AI it had developed US adversaries – chiefly Iran and North Korea, and to a lesser extent Russia and China – are beginning to use generative artificial intelligence to mount or organize offensive cyber operations, Microsoft said …
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I’m not here to start a moral panic about this violent survival game. Its transgressions are simply that there’s nothing here I haven’t seen before • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The biggest story of the year so far in games has been Palworld, the “Pokémon-with-guns” early access game …
Voices of people lost to gun violence have been re-created using AI to call for action, now six years to the day after the Parkland shooting that killed 17 Six years ago today, Joaquin Oliver was killed in a hallway outside his Florida classroom, one of 17 students and staff murdered in the worst high …
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