Month: February 2024

‘Every inch of tarmac was filled with worshippers’: Azim Khan Ronnie’s best phone picture

At a religious festival in Bangladesh, the photographer captured an extraordinary sight From a highway in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh, Azim Khan Ronnie surveyed his fellow worshippers. Ronnie, a Bangladeshi who now lives in France, had travelled back to his home country to attend Bishwa Ijtema. The annual meeting of millions of Muslims from …

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Tesla recalls almost all its vehicles sold in the US over warning light problems

Recall of more than 2m Teslas will be done with a software update as company comes under increasing scrutiny from US officials Tesla is recalling nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the US because some warning lights on the instrument panel are too small. The recall of nearly 2.2m vehicles announced on …

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‘If Instagram didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have happened’: a mother’s search for her trafficked daughter

Two years after Robyn Cory’s daughter was groomed at 15 on Meta’s platform and sold for sex by a gang, she is still missing Robyn Cory’s daughter Kristen was 15 when she was allowed to open her own Instagram account. “We thought we’d been responsible and done everything we could to make it safe,” says …

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Young people in the UK: are you exposed to conspiracy theories?

We want to hear from young people and those who work with them about the misinformation and divisive narratives they are seeing Following research finding that a third of UK teenagers believe the climate crisis is “exaggerated” and a backlash against feminism among young men, we want to learn more about the spread of misinformation …

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Video games can teach us more about philosophy than books – if only they’d dare

Genuine moral dilemmas are frustratingly rare in gaming – change that, and we could learn more about ourselves than any book might teach us I am at a fortunate stage of my parenting journey where I have a son old enough to have a girlfriend smart enough to give genuinely thoughtful gifts to her boyfriend’s …

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UK ministers urged to protect creatives whose work is used by AI firms

House of Lords committee says copyright laws fall short as tech companies lift content without permission Ministers must defend content creators whose work is being taken without permission by tech firms to build artificial intelligence products such as chatbots that generate “vast financial rewards”, a House of Lords committee has said. The legal framework in …

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Australian ‘contemporary’ portrait prize allows entries wholly generated by AI

Organisers of Brisbane Portrait Prize back artificial intelligence stating art is not stagnant and ‘traditionalists’ once opposed photographs Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A prestigious portrait competition has defended allowing entrants to submit artwork generated by artificial intelligence, …

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Meta revenue soars as it pivots to AI and announces dividends for investors

Cash flow beat investor expectations and shares rose as the tech giant authorized a $50bn share buyback program Meta shares soared 12% in after-hours trading following a strong fourth-quarter earnings report released the day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a beating in a contentious congressional hearing. The company also announced it will pay a 50 …

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