Switchee aims to protect health and cut bills by installing its technology in 1m homes A British startup which uses technology to prevent renters from living in cold, damp homes has raised fresh funds to expand as landlords belatedly try to tackle outbreaks of mould in crumbling social housing. Switchee has secured £5m, split equally …
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In this free-to-play gacha game, Earth’s survivors balance dystopian battles with cute moments helping locals miHoYo/HoYoverse; PC, PS5, smartphones One of the biggest revolutions in the modern video game industry has taken place almost out of sight of your average console gamer. The rise of the free-to-play gacha game, in which you pay either real …
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Campaign for better pay and benefits stepped up, says union representing about 30,000 staff in South Korea Thousands of workers in South Korea have pledged to extend indefinitely the first strike at Samsung Electronics, ramping up a campaign for better pay and benefits at one of the world’s largest smartphone and AI chip makers. A …
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Meta says it would remove content ‘attacking “Zionists” when it is not explicitly about the political movement’ Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would start taking down more posts that target “Zionists” when the term is used to refer to Jewish people and Israelis rather than representing supporters of the political movement. The Facebook and …
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Vacuum cleaner maker will axe about 1,000 jobs as part of global cost-cutting drive Business live – latest updates The vacuum cleaner and air-filter maker Dyson is cutting about 1,000 jobs in the UK as part of a global restructure, reducing its British workforce by more than a quarter. Staff were told on Tuesday morning …
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Artificial intelligence is heralded as helping the NHS fight cancer. But some warn it’s a distraction from more urgent challenges • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here What if AI isn’t that great? What if we’ve been overstating its potential to a frankly dangerous degree? That’s the …
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The three brands licensed by Nine’s Pedestrian Group that kickstarted my career might be gone but as long as there’s appetite for video game content there’s hope In 2006 I was fired from my job at EB Games. It was, with the benefit of hindsight, a well-earned dismissal. One Sunday I’d set up a camera …
We criticise children for not going outside – while curtailing their freedoms and closing their spaces On Sunday the Observer magazine published a sensitive piece about video game addiction, speaking to therapists working in the sector and one affected family. Genuine, compulsive, life-altering addiction, whether to video games or anything else, is of course devastating …
Company says it has ‘never thought about news’ as a way to counter misleading content on Facebook and Instagram despite evidence to the contrary Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Meta has claimed news is not the antidote to …
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US firm’s move, amid Beijing-Washington tensions, sparks rush to lure users to homegrown models At the World AI Conference in Shanghai last week, one of China’s leading artificial intelligence companies, SenseTime, unveiled its latest model, SenseNova 5.5. The model showed off its ability to identify and describe a stuffed toy puppy (wearing a SenseTime cap), …
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