Fall comes amid warnings over speculation by novice investors in cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin Bitcoin has posted its biggest one-day drop in almost two months, amid warnings that novice investors could suffer heavy losses from speculating in crypto assets such as “meme coin” Dogecoin. Bitcoin tumbled over 11% on Sunday, dropping from around $62,000 to …
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When groups of sinister drones began hovering over homes in America’s Midwest, the FBI, US Air Force and 16 police forces set up a task force. But the drones vanished. Did they even exist? At twilight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, Placido Montoya, 35, a plumber from Fort Morgan, Colorado, was driving to work. Ahead …
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The miraculous machines had taken us to the moon the year before, surely now they could guess the outcome of a few football matches A computer with less power than your phone had sent men to the moon in 1969, so getting one to predict the 1970 Mexico World Cup winner for the Observer Magazine …
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Tesla could be in for a shock as far-eastern rivals use cheap money to gain traction among affluent western car buyers Tesla boss Elon Musk is not known for admiring his competition, but when Chinese manufacturer Nio made its 100,000th electric car last week, he offered his congratulations. It was a mark of respect from …
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The Indian leader’s autocratic tendencies do not seem to have posed great ethical difficulties for Facebook and Twitter For decades, India was a poster child for democratic development: a poor, sprawling, ethnically diverse country that nevertheless had regular elections and peaceful transfers of power – the hallmarks of a functioning democracy – albeit with the …
The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors Dr Kate Darling is a research specialist in human-robot interaction, robot ethics and intellectual property theory and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. In her new book, The New Breed, she …
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This year has brought a glut of internet flotations – not just in the US but in London too – and more are on the way As markets on both sides of the Atlantic hit fresh highs, boosted by hopes of an economic rebound from the crisis inflicted by the pandemic, tech companies are choosing …
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Once a small port on the edge of a desert, Dubai is now a magnet for reality stars and a jet set crowd looking to beat the vaccine queue. But do the filtered images tell the whole story? On the electric blue tarmac of a helipad on the edge of Palm Jumeirah, an artificial island …
Been up to much lately? After a year of isolation, I’ve forgotten how to talk to people – but help is at hand A good friend of mine, who started a new job six months ago, is about to meet his colleagues face to face for the first time. They have been buddied up in …
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Fraud can have devastating consequences on victims, and not only financially Mary Higgins’s life changed the moment the phone rang one afternoon in November. The caller claimed to be from the Metropolitan police fraud department and told her that her bank cards had been compromised. In an elaborate scam, involving two days of phone calls …
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