Special featherweight, titanium edition of top Android has large screen but sacrifices battery and camera for design Having been instrumental in the reduction of smartphones to metal and glass slabs devoid of distinguishing features, Samsung hopes that going thinner and lighter with a special Edge edition of its high-end Galaxy S25 Android will prove design …
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Graphic sexual content, bullying, abuse and threats of violence are rife in the metaverse – and the NSPCC says a huge proportion of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products. Is it too late to change course? Everybody knows that young women are not safe. They are not safe in the street, where 86% …
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Nintendo Switch 2; NintendoThe Nintendo Switch 2’s flagship game is a winner, and often feels more like a journey with your friends than a straight competition I realised that we might have a Mario Kart World problem in our house when my sons ran up to me after our first few hours with the game, …
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It’s not the new generation of handheld gaming some might have been hoping for, but this is a highly refined version of the original console There was a time when the designers of the Switch 2 were considering calling their new machine the Super Nintendo Switch. They decided against it, however, because it would be …
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‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence Apple researchers have found “fundamental limitations” in cutting-edge artificial intelligence models, in a paper raising doubts about the technology industry’s race to develop ever more powerful systems. Apple said in a paper published at the weekend …
Photography agency alleges Stability AI trained its image generation model on archive of copyrighted pictures A London-based artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, has claimed that a copyright case brought by the global photography agency Getty Images represents an “overt threat” to the generative AI industry. Getty’s case against Stability AI for copyright and trademark infringement …
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Parents who lost children to online harms helped draft the bill – then watched it collapse under political pressure Bereaved parents saw their hopes for change dashed after a bill meant to protect children from sexual predators and drug dealers online died in the Colorado state legislature last month. Several of those parents had helped …
WPP and others roll out AI-generated campaigns as Facebook owner Meta plans to let firms create their own ads WPP chief Mark Read to step down as agency battles AI From using motion capture tech to allow the Indian cricketing star Rahul Dravid to give personalised coaching tips for children to an algorithm trained on …
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Officials are piloting package of AI tools known as ‘Humphrey’ – named after character in TV sitcom Yes, Minister All civil servants in England and Wales will get practical training in how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up their work from this autumn, the Guardian has learned: More than 400,000 civil servants will …
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The new ROG Xbox Ally handheld games machines will be available at the end of the year – here’s what it’s like to play on one Just a few days after Nintendo finally released its follow-up to the Switch, Microsoft has announced its own long-rumoured handheld console: the Xbox Ally. This is a very big …
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