A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads – here’s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier league Sometimes it’s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm … Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary. But surely no one …
Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? The two film-makers try to navigate the chaos Ari Aster’s new movie, Eddington, pits Joaquin Phoenix against Pedro Pascal as men with conflicting takes on …
The country is one of only a handful in the world – alongside China and North Korea – where Google Maps fails to function as it should For tourists visiting South Korea, one of the world’s most technologically advanced nations, navigating the country’s urban heartlands can prove surprisingly frustrating for one simple reason: Google Maps …
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Though GPT-5 model has better coding and writing abilities it is not yet able to ‘continuously learn’ OpenAI has claimed to have taken a “significant step” towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) with the launch of its latest upgrade to ChatGPT, but has admitted there are still “many things” missing in its quest to create a …
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The virtual world can bring a kind of friendship and a kind of connection, even to the grieving. But it can also facilitate exploitation of very human needs Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened fire …
Leeds MP Mark Sewards has launched a digital assistant, but the results of my chat show MPs’ aides have nowt to worry about As anyone with even a trace of a regional dialect who has had to pay a parking fine can attest, voice recognition services struggle with accents. Now, people in Mark Sewards’ constituency …
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Impossible to monitor, a gateway to dangerous content, or a great educational tool? As the social media ban looms, parents tell us how YouTube affects their world Children to be banned from having YouTube accounts as Albanese government backflips on exemption Leo Puglisi: ‘The more governments try to restrict social media use, the more young …
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With distinct, discrete areas that you can visit at any time, this is not a traditional open world adventure, and it resists gamification with the mantra ‘there’s no goal but to stroll’ Here is poetry in the form of a game description. Bernband is “a sci-fi exploration game for people who like to wander…”. Players …
Tech giant’s plan to up domestic investment over next four years comes as it seeks to avoid Trump’s threatened tariffs Donald Trump on Wednesday celebrated a commitment by Apple to increase its investments in US manufacturing by an additional $100bn over the next four years. Apple’s plan to up its domestic investment comes as it …
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If the transaction goes ahead the value of the ChatGPT developer would rise by about two-thirds to $500bn Business live – latest updates OpenAI is reportedly in early talks about a sale of shares held by current and former employees that would value it at half a trillion dollars, overtaking Elon Musk’s SpaceX. If the …
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