Internet calling service that disrupted landline industry to close in May as tech giant says it will focus on Teams Skype will ring for the last time on 5 May as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders. Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft focus on its …
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Users of Reels report feeds dominated by violent and graphic footage after apparent algorithm malfunction Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has apologised after Instagram users were subjected to a flood of violence, gore, animal abuse and dead bodies on their Reels feeds. Users reported the footage after an apparent malfunction in Instagram’s algorithm, which curates what people …
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The technology, just released in Europe and the UK, clearly has the potential to transform the film, TV and advertising industries OpenAI launches Sora video generation tool in UK If you want to know why Tyler Perry put an $800m (£635m) expansion of his studio complex on hold, type “two people in a living room …
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Sadler’s Wells, LondonWith quiet choreography and a focus on solos and duos, there is some incredibly tender movement in a captivating show that gives a sense of rippling through water The dancers in Wayne McGregor’s Deepstaria are captivating creatures, miraculous in their facility for movement. Their figures evolve in front of us, lines melting into …
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As business leaders fall in line behind the president and his policies, Americans are using their wallet to hurt where it matters – bottom lines Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting. In late January, Lauren Bedson did what many would likely find unthinkable: she …
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From the raw materials required to the machines that make them, every part of the chip supply chain is fiercely contested in the global race for tech supremacy A small town in the Netherlands hosts the only factory that produces the only chip-making machines that generate a type of light found nowhere naturally on Earth: …
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‘Sora would not exist without its training data,’ said peer Beeban Kidron, citing ‘another level of urgency’ to debate The artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT has launched its video generation tool in the UK amid a deepening row between the tech sector and creative industries over copyright. Beeban Kidron, the film director and cross-bench peer, …
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Geo Group, an Ice partner, is moving at ‘unprecedented speed’ to build out its monitoring, executive chair says The Geo Group, the largest single private contractor to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), said it is building out its surveillance business to be able to monitor hundreds of thousands or millions more immigrants than it …
Users complained of ‘not safe for work’ videos in feeds despite some having enabled setting to filter such content Meta Platforms said on Thursday it had resolved an error that flooded the personal Reels feeds of Instagram users with violent and graphic videos worldwide. It was not immediately clear how many people were affected by …
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Amazon Web Services enters emerging race against tech giants days after Microsoft revealed its quantum chip Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday announced Ocelot, its first-generation quantum computing chip, as it enters the race against fellow tech giants in harnessing the experimental technology. Developed by the AWS Center for Quantum Computing at the California Institute …
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