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Cannes film festivalFirst-time actor Agathe Riedinger is a wannabe influencer from the wrong side of the tracks in this forthright and fluent film Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks – but the director is also bringing some …

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Almost all children have them by the time they are 11 years old – and some get them at four. But are they ruining childhoods? Blake Montgomery reports This episode was first played on our global news podcast, Today in Focus. Conversations around if and when children should be given mobile phones have being going …

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Ilya Sutskever helped orchestrate dramatic firing and rehiring of ChatGPT maker’s CEO last year OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is leaving the startup at the center of today’s artificial intelligence boom. “After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI,” Sutskever said in a post on X. Continue reading… Ilya …

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Maryland employees at first US Apple store to unionize take historic step as progress for a first contract has stagnated Workers at the first Apple store in the US to have unionized, in Towson, Maryland, have voted to authorize a strike as progress in bargaining for a first contract has stagnated. They could be the …

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Cambridge-based business could be valued at up to £500m and is boost for UK after some companies switched listings The British technology company Raspberry Pi has confirmed its intention to float in the UK, in a significant boost to the London Stock Exchange. The Cambridge-based business, which is best known for selling low-cost computers aimed …

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Apple sets new standard in screen and power but Pro model verges away from consumer tablet needs Apple’s latest iPad Pro is thinner and lighter, and has a stupendous new OLED screen, plus oodles of power to do practically anything. But it is no longer just the super-premium iPad – it is also aiming to …

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Plans for a sprawling factory in rural Michigan making batteries for electric cars offer an economic lifeline, but for some residents there is a big problem: the parent company is in China Set among green rolling hills and tall pines, Lori Brock’s storybook farm encapsulates northern Michigan. A five-day-old mare bucks around a pen, while …

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Google I/O attendees were redirected to another entrance as protesters denounced company’s ties to Israeli military projects Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters chained themselves together in front of the entrance to Google’s annual developer conference on Tuesday in protest of the tech company’s ties to Israeli military projects. Thousands of attendees waiting to enter Google I/O …

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System can operate directly in speech, speeding up responses and noticing voice quirks, but it still needs the power of Siri In the year and a half since the launch of ChatGPT, one nagging question has only got more pressing: if AI can do this, why is my phone’s assistant still so bad? On Monday, …

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At its annual I/O developer conference, company also revealed AI assistant in progress under working name Project Astra Google will use artificial intelligence to return summarized responses to search engine queries from US users as it continues to infuse generative AI into its most widely used products. The company has been testing “AI overviews” that …

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