At the Develop conference in Brighton this week, talk turns from cancelled deals and job cuts to replicating real human experiences and telling stories about diverse characters For anyone looking to gauge the mood of the UK games industry in 2025, there has been only one place to hang out this week: the bar of …
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Company to provide free technology and ‘upskill’ civil servants but concerns raised over UK data being held on US servers Google has agreed a sweeping deal with the UK government to provide free technology to the public sector from the NHS to local councils– a move campaigners have called “dangerously naive”. The US company will …
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Ongoing surge in demand for AI technology fueled stratospheric rise of chipmaker’s value Chipmaker Nvidia became the first public company in history to scale a $4tn market value on Wednesday as its stock price continues a years-long stratospheric rise. Shares of the top chip designer rose roughly 2.4% to $164, benefiting from the ongoing surge …
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The popular Craigslist tradition is seeing a revival from Reddit and TikTok users, hoping a chance encounter turns into more Layla Rivera was at work when her boyfriend texted: someone on Reddit was looking for her. In the comments of a post on the subreddit r/warpedtour, attendees of the punk rock and emo music festival …
Upgraded Bluetooth cans fold up, fit well, have long battery life, sound great and reduce more noise than rivals Sony’s latest top-of-the-range Bluetooth headphones seek to reclaim the throne for the best noise cancellers money can buy with changes inside and out. The Sony 1000X series has long featured some of the best noise cancelling …
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Researcher says tech could replace nearly all human labour within 20 years and societies urgently need to prepare If Adam Dorr is correct, robots and artificial intelligence will dominate the global economy within a generation and put virtually the entire human race out of a job. The social scientist doubles up as a futurist and …
The popular bot on X began making antisemitic comments in response to user queries Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries. In some now-deleted posts, it referred …
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This nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of ‘vlubbing’ – using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What’s coming next? Here is a derivative but nicely put together sci-fi throwback, in which Inez Dahl Torhaug stars as Denise, a rebellious teenager in foster care whose father …
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The world’s richest person threatens to create the ‘America Party’ and the US president calls him a ‘TRAIN WRECK’ Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week in tech news, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are back at it, warring over the passage of the president’s sweeping tax bill and the Tesla CEO’s threat to create …
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Tech firm’s chief Louis Mosley dismisses attacks that contract ‘threatens to undermine public trust in NHS data systems’ Palantir, the US data company which works with Israel’s defence ministry, has accused British doctors of choosing “ideology over patient interest” after they attacked the firm’s contract to process NHS data. Louis Mosley, Palantir’s executive vice-president, hit …
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