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Firm behind ‘California Forever’, a proposed green city for up to 400,000 people on farmland, pulls back from vote The company behind the highly criticized “California Forever” project, a plan backed by Silicon Valley billionaires to build a green city for up to 400,000 people on California farmland, withdrew the ballot measure for the election …

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This cooperative game made in Montreal sees players leading a band of Scottish soldiers against an English army in thrall to the corrupting influence of a crashed meteor ‘There’s this giant rock that fell from the sky on a Scottish island: they call it the Dragon Stone,” explains Raphaël Toulouse, director of Tears of Metal. …

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Young people are evaluating good and bad life decisions on a scale and seeking input from others. To philosophy experts, it sounds familiar You can count calories, steps, streams of your favorite song – and now, you can assign a number to how cool you are. See: aura points, a way to calculate your rizz. …

“How many aura points did I lose?” The new coolness currency has hints of Aristotle Read More »

A Tamagotchi seance, macabre cartoon horror and an arty shmup: this new festival spotlights a fertile Scottish games scene beyond Rockstar North Walking through the doors of this boutique video game festival, you are immediately greeted by a bullet hell shoot-em-up with a painterly twist. In ZOE Begone!, you dodge and unleash attacks at blistering …

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Exclusive: NSPCC finds Apple implicated in more cases of predators sharing child abuse imagery in England and Wales alone than the company reported globally in a year Apple is failing to effectively monitor its platforms or scan for images and videos of the sexual abuse of children, child safety experts allege, which is raising concerns …

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But experts says full recovery from Friday’s IT failure could still take weeks A “significant” number of the 8.5m devices affected by last week’s global IT outage are back online, according to the cybersecurity company at the centre of the incident. CrowdStrike said it was also testing a new technique to reboot systems more rapidly, …

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CEO Sarah Franklin got such intense pushback on her company’s plans that she suspended them after three days One thing seems for sure: people are not ready for “digital workers” just yet. That’s the lesson learned by Sarah Franklin, the CEO of Lattice, a human resources and performance management platform that offers performance coaching, talent …

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Home affairs minister Clare O’Neil says systems should soon be back online but business groups say companies may need days to recover Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, says the company at the …

Crowdstrike tells Australian government it is ‘close to rolling out automatic fix’ after global outage Read More »

‘C the Signs’ artificial intelligence program scans medical records to increase likelihood of spotting cancers Artificial intelligence that scans GP records to find hidden patterns has helped doctors detect significantly more cancer cases. The rate of cancer detection rose from 58.7% to 66.0% at GP practices using the “C the Signs” AI tool. This analyses …

GPs use AI to boost cancer detection rates in England by 8% Read More »

Result of Guardian Australia experiment aligns with research showing social media automatically delivers troubling content to young men, largely without oversight Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast How do the algorithms of Facebook and Instagram affect what you see in your news feed? To find out, Guardian Australia …

We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny Read More »