Dramatic reversal of fortune for platform since billionaire owner became key ally of Donald Trump Business live – latest updates The value of Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has reportedly soared back to the $44bn he paid for it, in a dramatic reversal of fortunes since the billionaire became a key ally of Donald …
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Class action lawsuit alleged company discriminated against minority background staff on pay and career opportunities Business live – latest updates Google has agreed to pay $28m (£22m) to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favoured white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers. …
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Director Greg Kohs uses every tool in the editing palette to explain how Artificial General Intelligence (as differentiated from Artificial Intelligence) works If you don’t follow science news much, you may only be aware of Artificial Intelligence as a new-fangled thingy that somehow makes TikToks of kittens singing versions of Don’t You Want Me Like …
With launch problems fixed, first colour Kindle improves reading experience – but it is pricey and too small for comics Amazon’s first Kindle with a colour screen had been a very long time coming and then suffered a rough landing last year, plagued with yellowing screen issues and shipping delays. But with those problems fixed, …
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Jack Thorne, whose Netflix series has shone a light on incel culture, calls for restrictions on teens’ social media access Smartphones should be treated like cigarettes and banned until the age of 16 in the UK, according to the writer of Adolescence, which explores the insidious influence of “incel-culture”. Jack Thorne, whose Netflix show has …
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Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds Europe live – latest updates Russia and other state actors are driving an increase in politically motivated cyber-attacks and sabotage of infrastructure and public institutions in the EU, the bloc’s police enforcement agency has found. Europol’s 80-page serious and organised crime …
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Corporations started wooing my friends as soon as college began. It’s time for the left to reimagine its relationship with tech When my friends and I graduated with our math degrees this past May, we felt like we could do anything. After long nights spent on problem sets, the most aimless and ambitious of us …
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From cordless designs to budget buys, we’ve tested the top hair straighteners for every hair type • Everything I’ve learned as a beauty columnist about the products that actually work Straighteners are here to stay – but thankfully, heat styling has come a long way since GHD’s first ceramic straighteners ushered in an era of …
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Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used ‘for everything – the writing, the headlines, the quotes … even the irony’ An Italian newspaper has said it is the first in the world to publish an edition entirely produced by artificial intelligence. The initiative by Il Foglio, a conservative liberal daily, is part of a month-long journalistic …
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Alphabet’s acquisition of Israeli startup for $32bn follows rejection of takeover bid last summer Google’s owner, Alphabet, has agreed to buy the cybersecurity group Wiz for $32bn (£24.7bn), the biggest acquisition it has ever made. The search giant’s purchase of the Israeli startup comes as Google to catch its rivals Microsoft and Amazon in the …
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