The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth What jumps to mind when you think about the impending AI apocalypse? If you’re partial to sci-fi movie cliches, you may envisage killer robots (with or without thick Austrian accents) rising …
As Bungie’s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about – and ask why it’s like Marks & Spencer Destiny is 10 years old, which is an aeon in video game terms. It’s also one of the most fascinating games of the …
Destiny at 10: the forever game that is also a forever conversation Read More »
If you are expecting an authentic driving experience along the lines of Forza or Gran Turismo, think again. Instead, this new absurdist adventure features a car with legs Imagine a new racing video game. Whatever you’ve pictured, What the Car? is not it. In a world where racing games pride themselves on the ever-increasing detail …
What the Car? A racing game with a ‘complete disregard for actual vehicles’ Read More »
DoJ accused tech giant of more monopolistic behavior a month after judge found it illegally cornered online search A second antitrust trial pitting Google against the US Department of Justice begins on 9 September, with a federal judge in Virginia to hear arguments over whether the tech giant illegally monopolized the digital advertising industry. The …
Google’s second antitrust suit brought by US begins, over online ads Read More »
Platform run from industrial estate in Cumbria and catering to alternative relationships has expanded globally A dating app aimed at alternative relationships nearly doubled its revenues last year as non-monogamous, queer and kinky users helped the UK-based business expand its reach across the world. Feeld, founded by an entrepreneur couple in an open relationship, has …
‘Throuples’ dating app Feeld nearly doubles turnover to £39.5m Read More »
Calvijn College was one of the first schools in the Netherlands to ban mobile phones. Four years on, officials report its culture has been transformed Six years ago, as officials at the Netherlands’ Calvijn College began considering whether to ban phones from their schools, the idea left some students aghast. “We were asked whether we …
‘Going back in time’: the schools across Europe banning mobile phones Read More »
Apple watchers also expect new colors for the iPhone at the annual launch event, this year titled ‘It’s Glowtime’ Apple is slated to unveil its latest iPhone and a slew of other new hardware on Monday during its biggest product launch event of the year. The event, held at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, features …
Apple to unveil iPhone 16 and ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI features Read More »
Case set to test Julie Inman Grant’s powers under the Online Safety Act, but it’s only one of seven ongoing cases her office has with the Elon Musk-owned platform Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A notice issued to Twitter over …
Paulomi Debnath has shared a kiss with her husband every morning for 18 years. Ron Hill ran every day for more than 52 years. When does an enjoyable habit become a compulsion? Anyone who spotted the run Tom Vickery uploaded to exercise tracking app Strava on 18 February last year might have been a little …
Satellite internet service’s antennas are everywhere, from illegal mining sites to isolated Indigenous villages The helicopter swooped into one of the most inaccessible corners of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian special forces commandos leaped from its metal skids into the caiman-inhabited waters below. Their target, lurking in the woodland along Brazil’s Bóia River, was a hulking …
‘Can’t live without it’: alarm at Musk’s Starlink dominance in Brazil’s Amazon Read More »
