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AI firms scrutinised over regulations that oversee fair competition and aim to prevent monopolies Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia face increased antitrust scrutiny of their roles in the artificial intelligence industry after a report that US regulators have reached an agreement on investigating the companies. The New York Times reported that the US justice department and …

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A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966 On my desk right now, sitting beside my ultra-modern gaming PC, there is a strange device resembling the spaceship control panel from a 1970s sci-fi movie. It has …

SpaceWar is back! Rebuilding the world’s first gaming computer Read More »

PC; Charles Games The forking paths and opaque traps of his writings might sound amenable to gaming. But the meaningful futility of his fiction doesn’t add up to much here If Franz Kafka had lived to give notes on Playing Kafka, a new video game adaptation of his work, a big one might have been: …

Playing Kafka review – a well-intentioned but sanitised attempt at adapting the unadaptable Read More »

Come By Chance tells the story of two 52-year-old Newfoundland men who realised their lives should have been so different. Plus: five of the best Euro 2024 podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Everything to Play ForWondery+, all episodes out on Monday Just in time for the Euros, …

Best podcasts of the week: Two men were switched at birth – and things only got weirder from there Read More »

AI chipmaker’s stock has surged 147% so far in 2024, underscoring shift in tech world as demand for its processors far outstrip supply Shares of Nvidia rallied to record highs on Wednesday, with the artificial-intelligence chipmaker’s stock market valuation hitting the $3tn mark and overtaking Apple to become the world’s second most valuable company. The …

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In this week’s newsletter: The pandemic finally killed E3, but a cluster of loosely affiliated and competing events has risen up in its place• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here For the best part of 15 years, every June I would get on a plane to Los Angeles to cover …

From new Call of Duty to Star Wars Outlaws, it’s a massive few days for game reveals Read More »

Ferras Hamad claims in lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinians’ Instagram posts A former Meta engineer on Tuesday accused the company of discrimination in its handling of content related to the war in Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to help …

Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content Read More »

The disruption has also affected a wider range of services than first thought, including GPs, community and mental health providers A Russian cyber-attack has forced London NHS hospitals to resurrect long-discarded paper records systems in which porters hand-deliver blood test results because IT networks are disrupted. Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals trust (GSTT) has gone …

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Generation P | Photobombing in the Musée d’Orsay | Clamping down on HMRC | Fit and leftwing | 650 Mhairi Blacks You say that young Russians are “often referred to as ‘Generation P’ for having lived only under Putin’s presidency” (‘He couldn’t wait to join’: thousands of young Russians die in Ukraine war, 29 May). However, …

Vladimir Putin and Russia’s screwed generation | Brief letters Read More »

Eric Yuan suggests technology is five or six years away and will free up time to spend with family Zoom users in the not-too-distant future could send AI avatars to attend meetings in their absence, the company’s chief executive has suggested, delegating the drudge-work of corporate life to a system trained on their own content. …

The future is … sending AI avatars to meetings for us, says Zoom boss Read More »