Smallest and cheapest new model plays catchup to Pro iPhones with strong battery life but familiar design Apple’s latest iPhone bucks the trend of buttons vanishing from phones, gaining not one but two new controls on the outside, plus a big jump in chip performance and two-day battery life on the inside. The standard iPhone …
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London-based Synthesia’s technology was employed to make deepfake videos for authoritarian regimes The well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso. “We must support … President Ibrahim Traoré … Homeland or death …
Company says it signed three agreements on developing small modular reactor nuclear power technology Amazon.com said on Wednesday it has signed three agreements on developing small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power technology, becoming the latest big tech company to push for new sources to meet surging electricity demand from data centers. Amazon said it will …
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Millions of children play on this platform accused of having reams of troubling content and users, but there are hundreds of better alternatives that serve kids’ curious minds • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Right before last week’s newsletter went out, a short-selling firm called Hindenburg Research published an …
Google’s new tool NotebookLM lets you create podcasts at the click of the button. They’re way more realistic than you’d think … Anyone who grew up watching The Terminator or The Matrix knows that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. As the robots become smarter, it was thought, they will inevitably replace us, either …
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Tech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already exist There are so many ways to fiddle while Rome burns, or as this season’s weather would have it, gets torn apart by hurricanes and tornadoes and also goes underwater – and, in other places, burns. One particularly …
AI lobbyists are fighting regulation because they know voters of both parties do not trust the sector to police itself California governor Gavin Newsom recently killed SB1047, a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence safety bill, arguing that its focus on only the largest AI models leaves out smaller ones that can also be risky. Instead, he says, …
Known for her wild ‘Imogenation’, Heap has always reworked pop with tech, but her new data-mining project is her boldest yet. She explains why ‘you can’t stop progress’ It’s a very Imogen Heap way to say hello: “I’ve got to show you this thing – it’s going to change your life!” She beams at me, …
Musk’s America PAC, which is focused on turning out voters in closely battleground states, spent around $72m in three months Elon Musk gave around $75m to his pro-Donald Trump spending group in the span of three months, federal disclosures show, underscoring how the billionaire has become crucial to the Republican candidate’s efforts to win the …
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Nima Momeni had no motive to stab Bob Lee to death, opening day of trial in San Francisco hears The tech consultant charged in Cash App founder Bob Lee’s stabbing death had no motive to kill him and in fact was forced to defend himself against Lee, who had become aggressive while on a multi-day …
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