Month: July 2024

Lesser known sports stars are showing off Olympic Village life and captivating people with their ‘joyful relatability’ Olympic hauls were once the preserve of triumphant athletes showing off their medals, but now every Olympian is getting in on the act by posting videos of themselves unboxing their sponsored kit. Haul videos – a social media …

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As Llama 3.1 405B is made freely available, investors are asking when the huge industry spend will pay off Spending on artificial intelligence could hit a staggering $1tn, according to analysts concerned about whether there will be a return on such a spree. Mark Zuckerberg’s answer this week to such jitters was to release his …

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Team of two new AI systems score one point short of gold medal in global maths contest for gifted students Even though computers were made to do maths faster than any human could manage, the top level of formal mathematics remains an exclusively human domain. But a breakthrough by researchers at Google DeepMind has brought …

Google DeepMind takes step closer to cracking top-level maths Read More »

$10 UberEats vouchers sent to people who helped after global IT outage are flagged as potential fraud An attempt by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to thank workers who tackled the recent global IT outage with a $10 UberEats voucher hit a stumbling block after Uber flagged the gesture as potential fraud. CrowdStrike confirmed that it …

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Research commissioned by Google estimates 31% of jobs would be insulated from AI and 61% radically transformed by it Almost two-thirds of British jobs could be “enhanced” with AI, Google has claimed, with only a tiny proportion at risk of being “phased out” entirely. Instead of worrying about job losses caused by AI, the focus …

AI could enhance almost two-thirds of British jobs, claims Google Read More »

This cutesy and surprisingly intuitive brain teaser pushes the idea of the sliding-block puzzle to the very limits For Jemma, her whole life feels like a puzzle. Left on a stranger’s doorstep as a baby, she has never felt as if she fitted in, and is desperate to see what the world looks like outside …

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure review – shifting expectations Read More »

This beautiful-looking action game is based on Journey to the West, the great Chinese novel – but its own journey to release has hit a bump in the road When Chinese developer Game Science revealed its debut console game Black Myth: Wukong last year, it immediately caused a stir. Inspired by the great 16th-century Chinese …

Black Myth: Wukong – the summer’s most exciting, and most controversial, video game Read More »

Hipster ornithologist Matt Spracklen makes birds cool, while Elizabeth Day introduces an an insightful how-to series. Plus: five of the best podcasts about ancient history • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Tom Slick: Mystery HunterWidely available, episodes weekly Owen Wilson, Sissy Spacek and Schuyler Fisk star in this story …

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A day after activating Starlink internet in Gaza, Tesla CEO appears at Israeli PM’s controversial joint session US politics – live updates Elon Musk attended Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on Wednesday as a guest of the embattled Israeli prime minister. A day earlier, the tech billionaire announced that his Starlink internet service was now …

Elon Musk attends Netanyahu’s congressional address as his guest Read More »

A new exhibition showcases British hobbies, the Rotterdam Architectural Biennial and a South Asian London city map Both mending and hobby crafts get the respect they deserve in this month’s design news. Check our stories to see where these fine activities get treated as art. We also look at the history of Casio watches and …

July design news: 50 years of Casio, an iPod revival and mending as an art Read More »