Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival began as a lockdown project and has now become an annual gaming tradition. My children and I paid it a visit In an attempt to avoid spending £80 to walk around a local park with my children to see some underwhelming spooky decorations, and having failed for the fifth year in …
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Figure represents nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees Amazon is preparing to lay off tens of thousands of corporate workers, reversing its pandemic hiring spree. The cuts come months after the retail giant’s CEO warned white-collar employees their jobs could be taken by artificial intelligence. The Seattle-based technology firm is planning to …
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Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include “explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent”, according to a blogpost published by OpenAI on Monday. The finding, part of an update on …
Autonomous cabs are a staple in some US cities – but how will they cope with London’s streets? Gwyn Topham and Johana Bhuiyan report Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd enjoys a ride in a driverless taxi in Austin, Texas, as transport correspondent Gwyn Topham examines whether the technology can adapt to London’s medieval streets …
Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medic This essay was originally published on Rest of world Every few months, my mother, a 57-year-old …
After the release of a slew of other AI-integrated browsers, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo discusses ChatGPT Atlas, the Google monopoly trial – and the future Do you need an assistant for your online activities? Multiple major players in artificial intelligence are moving on from chatbots like ChatGPT and are now focusing their efforts on new browsers with …
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Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley In March, three months after being forced out of his position as the CEO of Intel and sued by shareholders, Patrick Gelsinger took the reins at Gloo, a technology company made for what he calls the “faith …
Grokipedia’s entries hew closely to conservative talking points, with some journalists already saying it contains inaccurate information Elon Musk has launched an online encyclopedia named Grokipedia that he said relied on artificial intelligence and would align more with his rightwing views than Wikipedia, though many of its articles say they are based on Wikipedia itself. …
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Raw Fury/Spooky Doorway; PCAn atmospheric folk-horror adventure combines colonial guilt, spiritualism and supernatural chills in a tale of secrets and seances on Ireland’s haunted west coast A remote manor house on the west coast of Ireland, an eccentric cast of misfits and ne’er-do-wells, a dapper investigator with secrets of his own. The Séance of Blake …
Research shows 4K or 8K screens offer no distinguishable benefit over similarly sized 2K screen in average living room Many modern living rooms are now dominated by a huge television, but researchers say there might be little point in plumping for an ultra-high-definition model. Scientists at the University of Cambridge and Meta, the company that …
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