Month: September 2025

Apple to debut new, thinner iPhone at ‘awe-dropping’ annual product event

Company also planning to reveal Apple Watch series 11 and update to AirPods earbuds Expect Apple’s latest iPhone to look slimmer when it debuts on Tuesday. The company is slated to unveil its thinnest iPhone yet at its annual product showcase, promoted with the title “awe-dropping”. The event will take place at its Cupertino headquarters …

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‘I broke completely’: how jobseekers from Africa are being tricked into slavery in Asia’s cyberscam compounds

A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture • Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people Within hours of landing in Bangkok from Nairobi last December to start a job as a customer …

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When maps go wrong: from the Great North Run to a phantom Aldi

Erroneously putting map of Sunderland on medals for Tyneside half marathon is latest in long line of cartological mishaps Great North Run ‘Newcastle map’ medals actually show Sunderland As the organisers of the Great North Run apologise for using a map of Sunderland, rather than Newcastle, on this year’s finisher medals, it is just one …

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Impact of chatbots on mental health is warning over future of AI, expert says

Nate Soares says case of US teenager Adam Raine highlights danger of unintended consequences in super-intelligent AI The unforeseen impact of chatbots on mental health should be viewed as a warning over the existential threat posed by super-intelligent artificial intelligence systems, according to a prominent voice in AI safety. Nate Soares, a co-author of a …

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‘The Mother Teresa of Aussie supermarkets’: meet the woman cataloguing grocery deals on TikTok

In the combat zone of the supermarket duopoly, Tennilles_deals is our protector, guiding us through each aisle with her weekly videos of sale products Maya Angelou once said “a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people” and when she said that, I can only assume she had …

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‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model

Media sites are taking action on several fronts as traffic referrals dry up and AI companies plunder their content When the chief executive of the Financial Times suggested at a media conference this summer that rival publishers might consider a “Nato for news” alliance to strengthen negotiations with artificial intelligence companies there was a ripple …

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AI firm plans to reconstruct lost footage from Orson Welles’ masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons

Film-making studio Fable has announced it will attempt to recreate the 43 minutes cut from the auteur’s 1942 film using AI An AI company is to reconstruct the missing portions of Orson Welles’ legendary mutilated masterwork The Magnificent Ambersons, it has been announced. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Showrunner platform is planning to use …

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