San Jose invited tech companies to mount cameras on a vehicle in what appears to be first-of-its-kind experiment For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize tents and cars with people living inside in what experts believe is the first experiment of its …
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Rishi Sunak has restated the government’s view that China represents an ‘epoch-defining challenge’, and said the UK has ‘very strong’ abilities to resist cyber-attacks. On a visit to Barrow-in-Furness, the prime minister said: ‘When it comes to cyber, we have the National Cyber Security Centre, which is world leading. Indeed, when I’m out and about …
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As deputy PM expected to impose sanctions, head of international alliance says ministers have taken years to respond The UK government has been too slow to respond to cyber-attacks by China, the head of an international group of parliamentarians focusing on the issue has said, ahead of expected new British sanctions against Beijing. Oliver Dowden, …
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In part eight of our series exploring myths surrounding EVs, we examine whether they will break our infrastructure Do electric cars really produce fewer carbon emissions? Are EVs too costly to tempt drivers? Is it right to have range anxiety? Cars have a weight problem. Consider the Mini, designed to save precious fuel during rationing; …
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Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden to update MPs on cyber-attacks by Beijing, some of whom may also have been targets The personal details of millions of voters are believed to have been accessed in an attack by China on Britain’s democratic process, ministers will say. MPs and peers are thought to be among 43 people …
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In late 2023, Peter Kaestner was about to log his 10,000th bird species seen in the wild. Then Jason Mann showed up In late 2023, 70-year-old birder Peter Kaestner was within striking distance of a goal that had never been accomplished: seeing more than 10,000 different species of birds in the wild. Such a record …
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Claiming to have created the concept of online dating, Grindr has been described as a lifeline for users in some countries but also a ‘crash course’ in objectification Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast One of pop culture’s early but most seminal depictions of gay online dating comes …
Tax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist In 1956, a chap named TK “Ken” Whitaker, an Irish civil servant who had trained as an economist, was appointed permanent secretary of the finance department in Dublin at the relatively young age of 39. From …
Young people have been made to fear an outside world that is actually safer than the one they’re exposed to online No, the kids are NOT alright. And as our future depends on them, we have to do something about it. This week the US surgeon general, Dr Vivek Murthy, did democracy a great favour …
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Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating Suppose that when your first child turned nine, a visionary billionaire …
