Month: May 2024

Bluetooth and wifi noise-cancelling cans aim to dethrone Apple and Bose with ultimate private film experience The wifi hifi-maker Sonos has announced its long-anticipated first set of Bluetooth noise-cancelling headphones that aim to be the ultimate private cinema sound system, whether at home or on the road. The Ace look like sleek, understated regular headphones …

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An entire generation nurses fond nostalgic memories of the gaudy kids’ game that came packed in with Windows Vista. But who actually made it? If you had a PC in the 2010s, you probably owned a copy of Purble Place. The gaudy kids’ game came with every copy of Windows Vista and 7. It was …

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If OpenAI can’t keep its own team together, what hope is there for the rest of the industry? Plus, AI-generated ‘slop’ is taking over the internet • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Everything happens so much. I’m in Seoul for the International AI summit, the half-year …

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What am I doing with my one wild and precious life? Struggling to follow fast, frantic cookery instructions and developing a whole new swearing habit I have been following the rise of the bao bun very keenly – the pallid little puffballs are enjoying a boom in Britain’s snack sector – on account of the …

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Rishi Sunak says 16 international firms have committed, but standards have been criticised for lacking teeth The first 16 companies have signed up to the voluntary artificial intelligence safety standards introduced at the Bletchley Park summit, Rishi Sunak has said on the eve of the event’s follow-up in Seoul. But the standards have faced criticism …

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Employers in UK, one of 15 countries studied, willing to pay 14% wage premium for jobs requiring AI skills The sectors of the global economy most heavily exposed to artificial intelligence (AI) are witnessing a marked productivity increase and command a significant wage premium, according to a report. Boosting hopes that AI might help lift …

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Smart display is the control centre for Alexa-connected devices anyone in the home can use Amazon’s latest Alexa device feels like the missing piece in making a home fully smart and acts as a hub for controlling lights, doors, cameras, timers and heating. The Echo Hub arrives ready to be the touchscreen controller for your …

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The software giant revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, pitching its features as a virtual photographic memory Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next. The software …

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Governments have made insufficient regulatory progress, ‘godfathers’ of the technology say before summit The world is ill-prepared for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, according to a group of senior experts including two “godfathers” of AI, who warn that governments have made insufficient progress in regulating the technology. A shift by tech companies to autonomous systems could …

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Letitia James announces victims fund for ‘defrauded investors’ in largest settlement the state has ever made with a crypto company New York’s attorney general has secured a $2bn settlement with the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global over allegations it had defrauded thousands of investors. Genesis, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US in …

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