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Mining companies accused of colonial ‘divide and rule’ tactics in their pursuit of the precious metal that lies under the country’s salt flats • Harriet Barber in the Salinas Grandes, Argentina. Photographs by John Owens In the vast white desert of the Salinas Grandes, Antonio Calpanchay, 45, lifts his axe and slices the ground. He …

Battle lines redrawn as Argentina’s lithium mines ramp up to meet electric car demand Read More »

Team Asobi’s Nicolas Doucet on creating PlayStation 5’s next big game – and, he hopes, its next big mascot It’s the PlayStation 5’s next big game, and Sony is in its DNA – but nonetheless there’s something very Nintendo about Astro Bot. It’s in the way that the game is designed so perfectly around the …

‘It’s important for us to be happy’: Astro Bot, the most joyous game on PlayStation 5 Read More »

Amazon pledged to create ‘Earth’s safest place to work’. Three warehouse workers speak about their experiences Amazon workers left unable to work by injuries on the job have resorted to online fundraising campaigns to pay their bills as they fight for compensation and disability benefits. Three current employees, injured while working in the technology giant’s …

‘It’s been hell’: injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: If you don’t like chatbots popping up everywhere, get ready to be peeved. But the latest version of Anthropic’s shows AI is becoming more useful – and, crucially, affordable The frontier of AI just got pushed a little further forward. On Friday, Anthropic, the AI lab set up by a team …

Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing Read More »

Unsettling documentary considers whether the increasingly popular simulations of lost loved ones are really helping the bereaved In the future, it’s possible that you won’t have to die. You’ll simply upload yourself. Or download a deceased loved one. In fact, some of this stuff isn’t even in the future; AI griefbots are already imitating the …

Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot Read More »

Health service in England issues update saying there is ‘no evidence’ hackers published entire database Stolen data published online has been confirmed as having come from the NHS provider Synnovis, NHS England has said. Synnovis, which manages blood tests for NHS trusts and GP services, primarily in south-east London, was the victim of a cyber-attack …

NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider Read More »

European Commission finds iPhone maker broke new laws designed to protect smaller competitors against big tech platforms Business live – latest updates Apple has been found to be in breach of sweeping new EU laws designed to allow smaller companies to compete and allow consumers to find cheaper and alternative apps in the tech business’s …

Apple found in breach of EU competition rules Read More »

GeoGPT developed as part of Chinese-funded earth sciences programme aimed at researchers in global south Geologists have raised concerns about potential Chinese censorship and bias in a chatbot being developed with the backing of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), one of the world’s largest scientific organisations and a Unesco partner. The GeoGPT chatbot …

Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot Read More »

Asus machine is best yet at being a laptop on the go and a dual-screen productivity beast at the desk Portable computers with multiple touchscreens have long been a feature of sci-fi films. But while several manufacturers in the real world have tried to make dual-screen laptops, none of them have really worked out. Typically …

Zenbook Duo review: are two laptop screens better than one? Read More »

AI that purports to read our feelings may enhance user experience but concerns over misuse and bias mean the field is fraught with potential dangers It’s Wednesday evening and I’m at my kitchen table, scowling into my laptop as I pour all the bile I can muster into three little words: “I love you.” My …

Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems Read More »