Universities are pivoting to incorporate generative AI into academic life – without the plagiarism – in the belief it will become a intrinsic part of life and work Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Third-year student Jack Quinlan was confident he knew what I was going to ask before we …
Firms such as Smallhold have lessons to be learned on what business can – and can’t – do in transforming agriculture When Andrew Carter and Adam DeMartino started their business Smallhold in 2017, they set out with a simple vision they thought could have a big impact: feed people mushrooms. “Mushrooms are one of the …
Cody Matthew Johnson explains how he has scoured every sonic corner, from spider monkeys’ chatter to gamelan, to write tunes a space travelling street thief would hear Have you ever thought what walking into a sweaty, dusty club on one of Star Wars’ desert planets would sound like? About what plays on the radios in …
App that doesn’t require users’ emails or phone numbers secured over $1m in funding with help from Jack Dorsey Some far-right extremists have fled Telegram for a new haven: SimpleX, a messaging service that just secured over $1m in funding with the help of Jack Dorsey, once the CEO of Twitter, now known as X. …
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This RPG is the third massively multiplayer online game Amazon has published in four years, and lets you morph your heroes into animals. Is it worth a shot? Amazon has been trying to break into the games industry for years, yet despite using the vast resources at its disposal to hire some of the best …
X owner has spent tens of millions to fund conservative causes including anti-immigrant and anti-transgender ads Elon Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, revealing his backing for Republican groups began earlier than was previously known. Musk endorsed Trump earlier this …
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Some California police departments are already using AI tools to help draft reports – and experts are concerned Officer Wendy Venegas spoke softly in Spanish to the 14-year-old standing on the side of a narrow residential road in East Palo Alto. The girl’s face was puffy from crying as she quietly explained what had happened. …
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PC, Xbox; Bethesda SoftworksBethesda’s gigantic space RPG’s first major expansion only highlights the game’s fundamental limitations The first story expansion for Bethesda’s big, bold, rickety space RPG arrives after a year’s worth of incremental updates that have already ironed out the game’s most egregious flaws. Those quest-breaking bugs have been squished, there are now vehicles …
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A serial killer strikes the seaside town in The Margate Murders. Plus: in celebration of its 10th anniversary, five of the best Guardian audio long reads • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here This autumn marks 10 years since we launched the Guardian long read. Looking back now, it is …
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The startup behind ChatGP, which is reportedly planning to become a for-profit business, is now valued on par with Uber OpenAI has raised $6.6bn (£5bn) in a funding round that values the artificial intelligence business at $157bn, with chipmaker Nvidia and Japanese group SoftBank among its investors. The San Francisco-based startup, responsible for the ChatGPT …
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