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Immersive training scenarios highlight experiences of minority ethnic colleagues in health service In one scene, a black nurse called Tunde is told by his manager that personal protective equipment (PPE) was being locked away at night to prevent its theft during night shifts, during the pandemic when ethnic minorities were more likely to work these …

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Bright OLED screen, voice control and a torch only add to go anywhere, track anything ability, but price increase stings The Fenix 8 is a landmark moment for Garmin. By adding voice control, an OLED screen and other niceties, it has merged its top Fenix and Epix adventure watch lines to better compete with increasingly …

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For his explosion event in Los Angeles, Cai Guo-Qiang built his own version of ChatGPT and employed a drone army to answer the question: what is the fate of humanity and AI? For decades, Cai Guo-Qiang has been the world’s foremost fine artist of explosions. He is famous for his massive fireworks displays, from his …

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Tesla and others are trying to infuse robots with artificial intelligence, yet their development is dogged by technical and safety challenges. But the dream of a multipurpose domestic droid lives on In 2013, US robotics company Boston Dynamics revealed its new robot, Atlas. Unveiled at the Darpa Robotics Challenge, the 6ft 2in humanoid could walk …

‘It’s the robot we were all expecting – like C3PO’: why aren’t humanoids in our homes yet? Read More »

The platform agrees to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, pays fines and takes down user accounts that the court had ordered removed Elon Musk fought the law. The law appears to have won. X, Musk’s social media platform, has backed down in its fight with the Brazilian judiciary, after complying with court orders that …

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The tech firm’s federal approval to turn its earbuds into hearing aids is one in the eye for the monopolistic US healthcare agency Like many professional scribblers, I sometimes have to write not in a hushed study or library, but in noisy environments. So years ago I bought a set of Apple AirPods Pro, neat …

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The Russian photographer sees this as a portrait of a family where everyone makes room for one another The two main characters in this image, the Russian photographer Olga Ivanova says, are her mother, Zinaida, and Ivanova’s seven-year-old daughter, Maria. Ivanova and her daughter were visiting Zinaida at her house in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, for her 62nd …

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In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion? AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult problems, from young people’s mental health issues to isolation in care homes. It also raises challenging questions about the increasing role of …

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Offline Club’s first global event on Sunday will begin with tips on how to be phone-free for 24 hours every week Haunted by a pile of unread books? Or taunted by climbing equipment lurking in the cupboard? If you are one of the UK adults who spends on average five hours a day looking at …

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Neko Body Scan, futuristic brainchild of Spotify co-founder Daniel Elk, is hoped to revolutionise healthcare In the 2016 movie Passengers, the crew of a spacecraft bound for a distant planet had access to a scanning chamber known as Autodoc that could instantly diagnose their medical problems and even predict the time of their death. I’m …

I tried the £299 full-body scan that checks health risks in minutes Read More »