Plus: World of Warcraft, polling and cats • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, technology news editor at the Guardian US. Today in TechScape I’m deciphering Elon Musk’s global political goals, a remarkable documentary filmed within World of Warcraft, polling on support for …
Saud al-Qahtani had been suspended permanently on Twitter before Elon Musk took over and rebranded it as X A key Saudi suspect in the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 has had his account reinstated on X, the social media company controlled by Elon Musk, after it was permanently suspended under the company’s …
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Mats Steen had muscular dystrophy and died very young. But a touching new documentary has used animation and his own posts to reveal the fulfilling gaming life he led in World of Warcraft – right down to his first kiss The night after their son Mats died aged just 25, Trude and Robert Steen sat …
The co-founder of Secret Escapes and LoveFilm is now offering tech solutions to help out tenants and landlords William Reeve is what he terms a “classic accidental landlord”. The serial entrepreneur didn’t intend to rent out his flat in central London, but had to give it up soon after gaining his first rung on the …
Enlarged iPhone gains two new buttons, faster chip and better camera, while lasting a long time on a charge Apple’s iPhone 16 Plus takes the regular iPhone and adds two things: a much bigger screen and even longer battery life. The new plus-sized model has the exact same specs, camera and multiple additional buttons as …
Social media company says it has seen ‘promising results’ in detecting the scam ads, which have included deepfake images of Gina Rinehart and Guy Sebastian Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Meta is fighting the scourge of celebrity investment scam ads with facial recognition technology to detect those who most …
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Publishers file suit against Perplexity AI, accusing startup of ‘brazen scheme’ and ‘freeriding on valuable content’ The media baron Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones and the New York Post filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Monday, claiming the artificial intelligence startup engages in a “massive amount of illegal copying” of their copyrighted work. The lawsuit …
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US company gives customers the ability to build own virtual agents as well as releasing 10 off-the-shelf bots Microsoft is introducing autonomous artificial intelligence agents, or virtual employees, that can perform tasks such as handling client queries and identifying sales leads, as the tech sector strives to show investors that the AI boom can produce …
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ByteDance dismissed person in August it says ‘maliciously interfered’ with training of artificial intelligence models The owner of TikTok has sacked an intern for allegedly sabotaging an internal artificial intelligence project. ByteDance said it had dismissed the person in August after they “maliciously interfered” with the training of artificial intelligence (AI) models used in a …
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The owner of X is just one of many who may prefer Donald Trump to greater regulation under the Democrats Way back in the 1960s “the personal is political” was a powerful slogan capturing the reality of power dynamics within marriages. Today, an equally meaningful slogan might be that “the technological is political”, to reflect …
