Month: May 2024

Researcher cautions against ‘one-size-fits-all solutions’ amid growing debate over impact, particularly on young people Spending time online is often portrayed as something to avoid, but research suggests internet use is associated with greater wellbeing in people around the world. The potential impact on wellbeing of the internet, and social media in particular, has become a …

Internet use is associated with greater wellbeing, global study finds Read More »

Mental health of young people is deteriorating, and shows up in employment data. More action is needed From the outset it was obvious the coronavirus pandemic would be brutal on the UK’s young people. Just how brutal has only become apparent over time. Children, teenagers and adults in their early 20s were the least likely …

Impact of pandemic on wellbeing of the young and the economy must not be trivialised | Larry Elliott Read More »

After the video of Peter Abbott screaming road-rage abuse through a car window went viral, we ask what’s behind the fury so many feel – and express Last week a video showing 60-year-old Peter Abbott screaming abuse at TV producer Samantha Isaacs gained a viral audience, after Abbott was found guilty at Poole magistrates court …

The rage epidemic: is our modern world fuelling aggression? Read More »

Maybe it’s my age, but the company’s brash new vision of digital minimalism looks like a portal to a sad and lonely world It was my birthday last week, and being these days a quiet rural dweller with a sweet pea obsession rather than the inner-city Dorothy Parker wannabe of yesteryear, I welcomed my appropriately …

With its new iPad Pro ad, Apple is offering us the thin end of the wedge | Alex Clark Read More »

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation When digital computers were invented, the first task was to instruct them to do what we wanted. The problem was that the machines didn’t understand English – they only knew ones and zeros. You could program them …

ChatGPT and the like will co-pilot coders to new heights of creativity | John Naughton Read More »

New Australian laws will make it a crime to distribute non-consensual deepfake pornography – but there are deeper issues at play, experts say “Very creepy,” was April’s first thought when she saw her face on a generative AI website. April is one half of the Maddison twins. She and her sister Amelia make content for …

Making deepfake images is increasingly easy – controlling their use is proving all but impossible Read More »

A venture that uses methods applied to plastic bottles for old textiles aims to tackle the UK’s mountain of unwanted garments Football shirts, sports event banners and uniforms are piled up ready to be pumped into a machine which melts them down for recycling ready to be made into new clothes. In a world first …

‘A world first’: project recycles polyester into yarn for new clothes Read More »

The São Paulo-based photographer captures the end of a hot day on the beach Adriano Brodbeck describes his image as the “perfect portrait of Rio”. The São Paulo-based photographer was on a trip with friends, and they had headed to Ipanema beach. “The neighbourhood was made famous by the Brazilian bossa nova song Garota de Ipanema, or …

‘Rio is beautiful, democratic and welcoming. It has this spell’: Adriano Brodbeck’s best phone picture Read More »

The moral panic following Raffaella Spone’s ‘deepfake’ video spread around the world. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed … Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. …

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all Read More »

Protesters opposed to expansion of the US electric vehicle maker Tesla’s plant in Grünheide near Berlin clashed with police as some of them attempted to storm the facility. More than 800 people took part in the protest, according to the organising group Disrupt Tesla, which claims the expansion would damage the environment. Footage shows people …

Germany: police clash with hundreds of climate protesters trying to storm Tesla plant – video Read More »