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Tech secretary stresses UK’s important role before global AI summit in Paris discusses issues such as governance The artificial intelligence race must be led by “western, liberal, democratic” countries, said the UK technology secretary in a veiled warning over China’s role in the contest, before a global AI summit in Paris. Peter Kyle spoke as …

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Report urges ministers to overhaul market to increase rollout in areas that have ample power generation Tech companies are putting pressure on the UK government to encourage an AI datacentre boom in remote areas of Great Britain by offering some of the cheapest electricity prices in Europe. A report paid for by the tech companies …

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Exclusive: Greens call for NBN CEO salary to be cut by estimated $2.5m alongside ‘cost-of-living’ relief for users Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Greens say Labor must drastically cut the pay of the national broadband network’s CEO, in exchange for their support on a bill to block any …

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Are they the same as crypto, why has the US president launched one, and who’s really coining it in? Here’s a complete guide to the latest digital money mania Three days before his inauguration as US president, Donald Trump made an unusual move. He launched $Trump, a so-called meme coin that fans and speculators could …

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Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sites We didn’t click ‘consent’ on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we’d been? Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook’s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection …

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This weekend, Google Maps turns 20 – and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story Stephen Ma has every right to claim bragging rights for helping to hatch the world’s most popular online mapping platform. Instead, for the past two decades Ma, one of the four co-founders of Google …

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The billionaire’s cost-cutting ‘Doge’ staff includes wealthy executives, far-right ideologues and young engineers Elon Musk’s rapid attempt to defund and depopulate the federal government has thrown US politics into chaos while the billionaire’s so-called “department of government efficiency” seizes control of operations at key agencies. Carrying out this hostile takeover are a team of staffers …

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The man given free rein by Trump to crusade against the federal government supported Democrats until 2022. But some of Musk’s longstanding positions lead a straight line to his far-right sympathies Elon Musk is not a people person, as millions around the world will be able to attest after the planet’s richest man cut off …

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Highway agency ordered states to no longer spend funds allocated under Biden’s EV charging station program The Trump administration has ordered US states to suspend a $5bn electric vehicle charging station program in a further blow to the environmental movement since the president’s return to the White House. In a memo issued on Thursday to …

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An accident left Noland Arbaugh paralysed, but Musk’s Neuralink brain implant allows him to control computers with his thoughts. Is it a life-changing innovation that could help millions – or the start of a dystopia where a billionaire can access our thoughts? Noland Arbaugh’s life changed in a fraction of a second in June 2016. …

Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed – or terrified? Read More »