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Milano Cortina​ has cutting‑edge replays, chase‑cam drones and exuberant commentary ​bringing a wave of unexpected nostalgia for anyone who grew up on 90s extreme‑sports games • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here As someone whose childhood holidays consisted of narrowboating along the Grand Union canal or wandering the harbour-side at …

​T​he ​Winter Olympics ​feel like a 90s ​snowboarding ​game​, and I’m here for it Read More »

Business leaders tout AI as a path to shorter weeks and better balance. But without power, workers are unlikely to share the gains The front-page headline in a recent Washington Post was breathless: “These companies say AI is key to their four-day workweeks.” The subhead was euphoric: “Some companies are giving workers back more time …

The bogus four-day workweek that AI supposedly ‘frees up’ Read More »

Data analytics firm moves from Denver after about six years and joins host of businesses relocating to south Florida Palantir announced on Tuesday that it has moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver. The data analytics company, criticized for its role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, joins a host of other businesses and billionaires …

Palantir moves headquarters to Miami amid tech’s growing retreat to Florida Read More »

Exclusive: ICE more than tripled the amount of data stored in Microsoft’s cloud at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology ballooned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deepened its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal. ICE more than tripled the …

ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show Read More »

Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest The race to get artificial intelligence to market has raised the risk of a Hindenburg-style disaster that shatters global confidence in the technology, a leading researcher has warned. Michael Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, …

Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert Read More »

Eye-catching martial arts performance at China gala had viewers and experts wondering what else humanoids can do Dancing humanoid robots took centre stage on Monday during the annual China Media Group’s Spring Festival Gala, China’s most-watched official television broadcast. They lunged and backflipped (landing on their knees), they spun around and jumped. Not one fell …

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Google, Anthropic and OpenAI bosses to mingle with global south leaders wrestling for control over technology Silicon Valley tech billionaires will land in Delhi this week for an AI summit hosted by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, where leaders of the global south will wrestle for control over the fast-developing technology. During the week-long AI …

Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south Read More »

Substances include chemicals that can cause cancer, neurodevelopmental problems and the feminisation of males You wear them at work, you wear them at play, you wear them to relax. You may even get sweaty in them at the gym. But an investigation into headphones has found every single pair tested contained substances hazardous to human …

Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project Read More »

Its ‘fibre checker’ tool confirmed I could have a connection, but a month later it changed its mind My internet provider informed me by email that full fibre broadband had become available for my property, confirmed by Openreach’s “fibre checker” tool. After a month, Openreach declared the connection uneconomical due to blockages in the conduits …

Openreach said yes to full fibre broadband, then branded it ‘uneconomical’ Read More »

San Francisco’s AI startups are pushing workers to grind endlessly, hinting at pressures soon hitting other sectors Not long after the terms “996” and “grindcore” entered the popular lexicon, people started telling me stories about what was happening at startups in San Francisco, ground zero for the artificial intelligence economy. There was the one about …

12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us Read More »