Congress is spending $65bn to connect the rural US to the world. Orangeburg, South Carolina, knows the stakes better than anywhere Orangeburg, South Carolina, is not the middle of nowhere. It’s an hour south of Columbia. It’s an hour and 15 minutes north of Charleston. It’s an hour and a half away from Augusta. It’s …
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Owen Diaz sued the carmarker in 2017, and though no details are available earlier settlement numbers ranged from $3.2m to $137m Tesla has settled with a former employee in a long-running discrimination case that drew attention to the electric vehicle maker’s treatment of people of color. Owen Diaz, who was awarded nearly $3.2m by a …
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Multiple Australian projects are on the cutting edge of neurotech breakthroughs and man-machine interfaces – raising questions of security and privacy for human minds Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Brain-computer interface technology is at the core of movies such as Ready Player One, The Matrix and Avatar. …
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Maker of Fortnite says in lawsuit that by controlling in-app purchases, the tech companies are restricting competition and innovation When Apple’s first iPhone launched in 2007, all its apps were made by Apple. Steve Jobs was reluctant to allow the apps of third-party developers on the iPhone, according to his biography by Walter Isaacson. He …
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Exclusive: Psychologist accuses Meta of ‘turning a blind eye’ to posts she believes represent further danger to vulnerable women A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit …
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The Irish writer on a sumptuous Francis Ford Coppola film, swimming in winter and the thrill of using a dumb phone Writer Nicole Flattery was born in Kinnegad, County Westmeath, in 1989. She studied theatre and film at Trinity College Dublin, followed by a master’s in creative writing, and won the White Review short story …
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ChatGPT and Gemini discriminate against those who speak African American Vernacular English, report shows Popular artificial intelligence tools are becoming more covertly racist as they advance, says an alarming new report. A team of technology and linguistics researchers revealed this week that large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini hold racist stereotypes about …
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What are the chances of real romance via a ‘missed connection’? And has the internet turned these interactions from the stuff of romcoms to just a bit creepy? In the beginning, Darcy had a boyfriend and an aisle seat. It was 29 March 2000, and she was the last person to board the plane from …
The photographer was intrigued by where this man was going in the middle of New York with a dog and a painting ‘I hope this photo makes others smile,” photographer Erik S Lieber says. “Where is a man in the middle of New York City going with a dog and a painting?” Lieber was heading home from a physical therapy session …
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The increasing use of digital technology has inspired many scare stories, but is it reducing our attention span, does smartphone addiction actually exist – and should we even be feeling bad about it? Digital technology is now inextricably woven into the fabric of society, and for many of us, that does not always feel like …
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