Research reveals 13% of residents regularly invest in cryptocurrency and check stocks, more than all other cities The city’s most famous sons may have sung that money can’t buy you love, but that was before bitcoin existed. Liverpool has emerged as the crypto capital of the UK, according to a study looking at the online …
Smartphones offer instant stimulation, but do they silence a deeper message In 2014, a group of researchers from Harvard University and the University of Virginia asked people to sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes. The only available diversion was a button that delivered a painful electric shock. Almost half of the participants pressed it. …
Devastating attacks at M&S, the Co-op and Harrods highlight risks as lenders say cybersecurity is biggest expense It is every bank boss’s worst nightmare: a panicked phone call informs them a cyber-attack has crippled the IT system, rapidly unleashing chaos across the entire UK financial industry. As household names in other industries, including Marks & …
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Fraudsters offer great pay for liking and sharing TikTok content – but then demand a fee to unlock higher earnings Out of the blue you receive a call or a text offering you a job. It sounds great – it’s remote working and you could earn up to £800 a day. If you’re interested, you …
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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal. A survey …
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Peter Kyle calls on employees and businesses to act now to get to grips with technology amid forecasts of job losses Workers in the UK should turn their trepidation over AI into “exhilaration” by giving it a try or they risk being left behind by those who have, the technology secretary has said. Peter Kyle …
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We asked a chatbot some common finance questions – and then ran its responses past human experts Artificial intelligence seems to have touched every part of our lives. But can it help us manage our money? We put some common personal finance questions to the free version of ChatGPT, one of the most well-known AI …
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In this week’s newsletter: Happy 20th birthday to the forum that reshaped fandom and is one of the internet’s most eccentric collaborative spaces It only ended a few years ago, but Westworld already feels a bit of a TV footnote. A pricey mid-2010s remake of a 70s Yul Brynner movie few people remembered, HBO’s robot …
The sloppy sartorial style of political insiders, from Musk to Dominic Cummings, reveals who has the privilege to be scruffy – but it may also signal their undoing In case you missed it, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have fallen out. For some – and in particular anyone looking at the tech billionaire’s White House …
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PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; Build a Robot Boy/IO InteractiveA lot of work and ambition have gone into this strange, sometimes likable cover-shooter throwback There’s a Sphere-alike in Redrock, MindsEye’s open-world version of Las Vegas. It’s pretty much a straight copy of the original: a huge soap bubble, half sunk into the desert floor, with its …
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