… but impressive, boundary-pushing device is priced so far out of reach for most that it isn’t yet the next big thing On a sweltering summer’s day in London, I sat working in the middle of a snow-covered Yosemite national park surrounded by an array of floating apps and browser windows. Later I stared across …
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Boredom is linked to attention – so switching content or skipping forwards and backwards feels more tedious than watching one video Browsing videos on TikTok or YouTube can be a hit-and-miss affair, with gems lurking amid mediocre efforts. But researchers have found that switching to another video, or skipping forwards and backwards in the same …
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Artist Butterbro accused of walking fine line between parody and discrimination and helping make racial slur mainstream A song about immigrants whose music, vocals and artwork were entirely generated using artificial intelligence has made the Top 50 most listened to songs in Germany, in what may be a first for a leading music market. Verknallt …
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There’s been an exodus of users from X, propelled by Elon Musk’s lurch to the far right, but the alternatives have drawbacks too “Being on @Threads this week has been a bit like sitting on a half-empty train early in the morning while it slowly starts to fill up with people jumping on with horror …
Judge Alexandre de Moraes had ordered X to block certain accounts as he investigated fake news and hate messages Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform X would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X claims Moraes …
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This summer organisers are asking festival-goers to stop filming the event and live in the moment instead Many partygoers who attended Amsterdam’s No Art festival this summer will have had the time of their lives – but you wouldn’t be able to tell that from their social media channels. At the gates of the all-day …
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Startups around the world are engaging in clinical trials in a sector that could change lives – and be worth more than £15bn by the 2030s Oran Knowlson, a British teenager with a severe type of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, became the first person in the world to trial a new brain implant last October, …
Impersonators love tarot readers. Regulators and social media companies don’t care. Mystic practitioners fight back with Moonlight, ‘software for witches’ Since tarot practitioner Rebecca Scolnick first began reading cards professionally in 2018, she has been impersonated more than 50 times on Instagram. The scams typically follow a similar pattern: someone creates an account that mirrors …
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GMB union urges Health and Safety Executive to investigate ‘shocking’ figures revealed by the Observer Ambulances have been called out to Amazon warehouses more than 1,400 times in the past five years, the Observer can reveal. The figures, which were described as shocking by the GMB trade union, raise fresh questions about safety at the …
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A lockdown bike ride through central London with his son led the photographer to a moment of serene, sunny solitude Celebrating his 19th birthday with a six-hour bike ride through London’s deserted streets was not the plan when photographer Gideon Mendel’s son, Jonah, began university. “He started the autumn before the first Covid lockdown and …
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