Month: October 2024

Matt Garman, head of AWS unit, says ‘there are other companies around’, according to transcript A senior Amazon executive has suggested that staff who do not like the company’s new five-days-a-week office-working policy should quit. The head of the tech company’s cloud computing business told an internal meeting that if employees did not support the …

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Tesla and SpaceX chief’s behavior sets him apart from even the most politically active billionaires – serving as a Trump policy adviser and mega-donor Less than a month before the presidential election, Elon Musk has made himself a near-constant presence in the race. At a rally for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Musk jumps with glee …

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From gamifying your to-do list to going for a regular morning walk, top tips for improving concentration from psychotherapists, health coaches and other experts Forty-seven seconds. That was the average length of time an adult could focus on a screen for in 2021, according to research by Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University …

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Oversight Board says parent company Meta has ‘serious questions’ to answer over two posts allowed to remain online Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta must answer “serious questions” about its handling of anti-immigration material, according to the company’s content watchdog, as it opened an investigation into two Facebook posts. The Oversight Board is investigating Meta’s decision to keep …

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Harry Stebbings says tax rules make Britain ‘a bad place to do business’ as he warns of entrepreneurs leaving Tech entrepreneurs will leave the UK “en masse” if the chancellor announces a significant increase in capital gains tax at this month’s budget, according to a leading industry investor. Harry Stebbings, a British podcaster turned investor …

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System built by Google DeepMind team takes individual views and generates a set of group statements Artificial intelligence could help reduce some of the most contentious culture war divisions through a mediation process, researchers claim. Experts say a system that can create group statements that reflect majority and minority views is able to help people …

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Internet Watch Foundation says illegal AI-made content is becoming more prevalent on open web with high level of sophistication Child sexual abuse imagery generated by artificial intelligence tools is becoming more prevalent on the open web and reaching a “tipping point”, according to a safety watchdog. The Internet Watch Foundation said the amount of AI-made …

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Data is vital to AI systems, so firms want the right to take it and ministers may let them. We must wake up to the danger Imagine someone drives up to a pub in a top-of-the-range sports car – a £1.5m Koenigsegg Regera, to pick one at random – parks up and saunters out of …

Here’s the deal: AI giants get to grab all your data unless you say they can’t. Fancy that? No, neither do I | Chris Stokel-Walker Read More »

Although choosing a venue is not uncommon, northern district stands out because it’s not where X is located Elon Musk’s X has updated its terms of service to steer any disputes from users of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter to a federal court in Texas whose judges frequently deliver victories to conservative …

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Home computing and the gaming industry have their origins in the iconic early 80s hardware, documented here in an homage to an eccentric pioneer You’ll need a pretty high geek tolerance level for this very detailed and specialised account of Sir Clive Sinclair’s bestselling ZX Spectrum home computer, whose appearance in 1982 with its rubbery …

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