Cuts follow push to slim management ranks, despite headcount still being up year-on-year in March Microsoft says it is laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce. The tech giant didn’t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, …
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New system will analyse responses 1,000 times faster than a human and save millions, ministers claim An AI tool has been used to review public responses to a government consultation for the first time and is now set to be rolled out more widely in an effort to save money and staff time. The tool, …
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Big tech companies have exploited human language for AI gain. Now they want us to see their products as trustworthy collaborators After publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror episode. “Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book …
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What if a simple selfie was enough to show scientifically how well or badly we’re ageing? That moment’s getting closer … Name: FaceAge. Age: New. Continue reading… What if a simple selfie was enough to show scientifically how well or badly we’re ageing? That moment’s getting closer … Name: FaceAge. Age: New. Continue reading…Technology | …
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As the UK debates AI and copyright, Trump hands a gift to Big Tech, drones proliferate along the India-Pakistan border and a robot dispenses methodrone Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Sometimes it helps me to write by thinking about how a radio broadcaster or television presenter would deliver the information, so I’m your host, Blake …
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Peers back amendment to data bill requiring AI companies to reveal which copyrighted material they have used The government has suffered another setback in the House of Lords over its plans to let artificial intelligence firms use copyright-protected work without permission. An amendment to the data bill requiring AI companies to reveal which copyrighted material …
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The man who brought Tetris to the west reveals what the movie of his life got right and wrong, how he influenced Nintendo, and why he has now swapped gaming for climate change campaigning When game designer and entrepreneur Henk Rogers first encountered Tetris at the 1988 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, he immediately knew …
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PC, PS5, Xbox; id Software/Bathesda SoftworksThis prequel takes a blunt force trauma approach to problem-solving and demon-killing, with a slower pace but more spectacular weaponry Billed as a prequel to id Software’s 2016 revival of Doom, The Dark Ages is about as different as it could be from its predecessors while remaining recognisably part of …
Billy Evans, father of Holmes’s children, says company can make diagnoses from users’ blood, urine and saliva Elizabeth Holmes’s romantic partner – the father of her children – reportedly has raised millions of dollars to start up a new blood-testing company that is strikingly similar to the one that landed the Theranos founder in federal …
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AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, …
