His claims come with a caveat that shortages of training chips and growing demand for power could limit plans in the near term Superhuman artificial intelligence that is smarter than anyone on Earth could exist next year, Elon Musk has said, unless the sector’s power and computing demands become unsustainable before then. The prediction is …
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Fuelled by music fandom and social media, young British people’s slang is evolving to include words with pidgin, patois and Arabic roots – even where strong regional English dialects exist There’s a video format spreading on TikTok. Recorded in towns across suburban England, teenage interviewers stop their peers on the street, fielding questions that range …
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From hyperrealistic deepfakes to videos that not only hijack our attention but also our emotions, tech seems increasingly full of ‘cognitohazards’ • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Let’s talk about sci-fi. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash is the book that launched a thousand startups. It …
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Quality earbuds with improved Bluetooth, great battery life, good controls and future-proofed tech Sennheiser’s latest high-end earbuds aim to retake the crown as the best-sounding noise-cancelling earbuds you can buy, with cutting-edge chips, tricks and future-proofed tech. The Momentum True Wireless 4 earbuds cost £259.90 (€299.90/$299.95), pitting them directly against the best from Bose and …
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Walter Huang was killed when his car steered in to a highway barrier and Tesla will avoid questions into its technology in a trial Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a car crash which killed an Apple engineer in 2018 after his car veered off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. …
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This week, Somerset House houses a selection of avant garde games on the theme of liminality For a week or so every year, Somerset House in London becomes home to a mini-festival of experimental video games: last year’s were all on the theme of love. Now Play This has been running for 10 years, and …
Trend seeks to dispel myths of a perfect life with experts saying it can help users feel less alone in difficult moments Whether it’s a recipe for last night’s dinner, pictures of a recent trip to a gallery or a track-by-track review of Beyoncé’s new album, the routine of chronicling our daily lives and thoughts …
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Multibillionaire called for resignation of judge who ordered platform to block far-right users Elon Musk faces a legal investigation in Brazil after becoming embroiled in a public row with a supreme court judge over an order requiring the social network X to take down some far-right accounts. Justice Alexandre de Moraes had issued a court …
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Pierre Huyghe’s uncanny machine-human hybrids in Venice are the latest attempt to find deeper meaning in a technology that leaves many creatives playing catch-up Two people dressed in black are kneeling on the floor, so still that they must surely be in pain. If they are grimacing, there would be no way to know – …
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Tell-tale signs of generative AI images are disappearing as the technology improves, and experts are scrambling for new methods to counter disinformation With more than 4,000 shares, 20,000 comments, and 100,000 reactions on Facebook, the photo of the elderly woman, sitting behind her homemade 122nd birthday cake, has unquestionably gone viral. “I started decorating cakes …
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