Meta’s director of privacy policy declines to say whether such an option would be offered to Australians in the future Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Meta is using the public Facebook and Instagram photos and posts of its users to …
Public-facing staff in shops and frontline services are donning cameras to help fight abuse and theft When you work in security it can be a battle to stop people stealing. Most thieves know that they have the same legal power as guards, and it’s not easy trying to decide who gets to dole out “reasonable …
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Elon Musk turning you off Tesla? Here are 10 of the best electric cars, driven and chosen by our expert • How to buy an electric car – a guide Elon Musk is never far from a headline these days, from his recent inflammatory posts about the far-right riots in the UK to his endorsement …
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In this week’s newsletter: Most European users won’t be getting integrated AI on Apple devices, so are the updates offered by Apple just window dressing? • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Trying to figure out what to focus on for the first post-Alex Hern TechScape was …
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Reactions to the trailer have ranged from ‘awful’ to ‘horrendous’. But what does its target audience think? Nothing makes you feel older than watching someone two generations younger than you play Minecraft – except, perhaps, watching someone two generations younger watching someone else play Minecraft on YouTube. (What are they doing? Why are they always …
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Ruling is a fillip for European Commission efforts to clamp down on ‘sweetheart’ tax deals Business live – latest updates Apple has lost a high-profile, €13bn (£11bn) Irish tax battle with Brussels in a decision that will bolster the European Commission’s efforts to clamp down on favourable “sweetheart” tax deals for multinationals. The European court …
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Oil and gas company to use artificial intelligence to speed up decision-making by engineers Business live – latest updates The oil and gas supermajor BP is to use artificial intelligence to speed up the decision-making of its engineers, after signing a five-year deal with the US spy technology company Palantir. The British company plans to …
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The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth What jumps to mind when you think about the impending AI apocalypse? If you’re partial to sci-fi movie cliches, you may envisage killer robots (with or without thick Austrian accents) rising …
As Bungie’s storied online shooter completes its first decade, we look back on an odd game that has always been worth talking about – and ask why it’s like Marks & Spencer Destiny is 10 years old, which is an aeon in video game terms. It’s also one of the most fascinating games of the …
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DoJ accused tech giant of more monopolistic behavior a month after judge found it illegally cornered online search A second antitrust trial pitting Google against the US Department of Justice begins on 9 September, with a federal judge in Virginia to hear arguments over whether the tech giant illegally monopolized the digital advertising industry. The …
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