Month: October 2024

The photographer and film-maker celebrates the beauty of brotherhood and male companionship ‘Brotherhood and male affection are rarely seen in a culture typically painted as hyper-masculine by the west,” says Justin Attah Mensah, a film-maker and photographer from Accra, Ghana. “This image showcases the beauty in this companionship, and celebrates it.” Mensah had travelled to …

‘It makes me feel light, happy and free’: Justin Attah Mensah’s best phone picture Read More »

Other submissions included a vertical grand piano, smart goalie gloves and cheese made of potatoes A robot dog that does the vacuuming, a flatpack coffin and a cross between a cookie and a cake were among the things that UK-based inventors thought up last year. A Guardian analysis of patent applications listed by the Intellectual …

Flatpack coffins and robot dogs: patents applications show UK inventions of 2023 Read More »

The billionaire was raging on his platform, X, but Fema and the transportation secretary say accusations are false Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, shot down criticism by Elon Musk on the governments’ handling of Hurricane Helene relief efforts, accusing the SpaceX CEO of spreading misinformation. Musk accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) of blocking …

Pete Buttigieg and Fema counter Musk’s charge of blocking Starlink from hurricane relief Read More »

Facebook owner claims Movie Gen can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips that rival competitors’ Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Friday it had built a new artificial intelligence model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from …

Meta announces new AI model that can generate video with sound Read More »

Universities are pivoting to incorporate generative AI into academic life – without the plagiarism – in the belief it will become a intrinsic part of life and work Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Third-year student Jack Quinlan was confident he knew what I was going to ask before we …

ChatGPT has become the ‘best teammate’ to these Sydney university students – but is there a limit? Read More »

Firms such as Smallhold have lessons to be learned on what business can – and can’t – do in transforming agriculture When Andrew Carter and Adam DeMartino started their business Smallhold in 2017, they set out with a simple vision they thought could have a big impact: feed people mushrooms. “Mushrooms are one of the …

‘VCs need their money back’: why sustainable startups struggle to fix our broken food system Read More »

Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys’ chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear Have you ever thought what walking into a sweaty, dusty club on one of Star Wars’ desert planets would sound like? About what plays on the radios in …

‘We were only slightly influenced by the Cantina music’: the underworld sounds of Star Wars Outlaws Read More »

This RPG is the third massively multiplayer online game Amazon has published in four years, and lets you morph your heroes into animals. Is it worth a shot? Amazon has been trying to break into the games industry for years, yet despite using the vast resources at its disposal to hire some of the best …

Otters in hats and magical staffs: all you need to know about Throne and Liberty, Amazon’s new free fantasy game Read More »

App that doesn’t require users’ emails or phone numbers secured over $1m in funding with help from Jack Dorsey Some far-right extremists have fled Telegram for a new haven: SimpleX, a messaging service that just secured over $1m in funding with the help of Jack Dorsey, once the CEO of Twitter, now known as X. …

Far-right extremists flee from Telegram to SimpleX over privacy features Read More »

X owner has spent tens of millions to fund conservative causes including anti-immigrant and anti-transgender ads Elon Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, revealing his backing for Republican groups began earlier than was previously known. Musk endorsed Trump earlier this …

Musk’s millions in rightwing gifts began earlier than previously known – report Read More »