The SpaceX head has been advised to not seek the same over his drug use and contacts with foreign nationals Space entrepreneur Elon Musk is unlikely to receive government security clearances if he so applied, even as his SpaceX launch company blasts military and spy agency payloads into orbit, according to a report on Monday. …
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How the pandemic and climate migration have influenced this third outing of a formerly sterile architectural puzzle game Architectural surrealism is Monument Valley’s signature. Austere, beautiful structures transform and rotate at the player’s touch, creating new paths and staircases for its minimalist characters to traverse. Doorways can lead anywhere. Switches cause columns to rise out …
A first-of-its-kind public archive of UFO records opens in New Mexico as New Jersey is gripped by drone panic A widespread panic about drones or other unknown low-flying objects has gripped New Jersey in recent days, but many other parts of the US remain cheerfully gripped by another very American mystery in the skies that …
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The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian vision It was some time in the early 2000s and Asif Kapadia, already a successful film director, a wunderkind …
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system The email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of conduct team. Albert, a …
Despite a stellar reference from a landlord of 17 years, Mary Louis was rejected after being screened by firm SafeRent Three hundred twenty-four. That was the score Mary Louis was given by an AI-powered tenant screening tool. The software, SafeRent, didn’t explain in its 11-page report how the score was calculated or how it weighed …
From voters picking up ‘bad vibes’ to the Brat girl summer, vague instincts now make the world go round. Does this represent a crisis of seriousness or has it always been feelings that make us human? Facts were cool for about 250 years. From the Enlightenment until this century, facts were where it was at. …
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Notifications from a new Apple product falsely suggested the BBC claimed the New York gunman Luigi Mangione had killed himself The BBC says it has filed a complaint with the US tech giant Apple over AI-generated fake news that was shared on iPhones and attributed to the broadcaster. The Apple Intelligence, which was launched in …
Ruling means short-video app and Chinese parent ByteDance must appeal to supreme court by 19 January A US appeals court on Friday rejected an emergency bid by TikTok to temporarily block a law that would require its Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest of the short-video app by 19 January or face a ban on …
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman also announced a $1m personal donation to Trump on the same day, joining Meta Amazon is the latest tech giant to donate to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund. The company plans to give $1m to the fund, first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Amazon follows Meta, Facebook’s parent company, also handing over …
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