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Retailer doing ‘whatever it takes’ to halt organizing at warehouse in Moreno Valley, California, workers say, as Amazon faces unfair labor practice charges Facing an insurgent campaign which threatened to unleash a wave of unionization across its vast workforce, Amazon stands accused of reaching for dirty tricks. Workers who tried to organize inside its warehouses …

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Letter signed by more than 200 artists makes broad ask that tech firms pledge to not develop AI tools to replace human creatives A group of more than 200 high-profile musicians have signed an open letter calling for protections against the predatory use of artificial intelligence that mimics human artists’ likenesses, voices and sound. The …

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Countries sign memorandum to develop advanced AI model testing amid growing safety concerns The United States and Britain on Monday announced a new partnership on the science of artificial intelligence safety, amid growing concerns about upcoming next-generation versions. The US commerce secretary, Gina Raimondo, and British technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, signed a memorandum of understanding …

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Drop is sign that effects of its price cuts are waning while electric automaker’s shares have fallen nearly 30% so far this year Tesla posted a fall in deliveries for the first time in nearly four years and missed Wall Street estimates, a sign that the effects of its price cuts are waning as the …

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Retro video games and aesthetics are having a moment, but it’s not just gen X and older millennials reliving their heyday: younger millennials and gen Z are getting in on the nostalgia too The bouncy, midi melody of Nintendo’s Wii theme descends into a drill beat. A Game Boy Colour opens up into a lip …

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Tech firms can do more, but it’s the government’s job to ensure children have safe places to play – and it’s not doing it Three-quarters of children want to spend more time in nature. Having spent the Easter weekend trying to force four resistant teenagers off their phones and out for a nice walk over …

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Suit claimed tech giant tracked activity of people who thought they were privately using its Chrome browser’s incognito mode Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser’s incognito mode. Users alleged that Google’s …

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App-based cognitive tests found to be proficient at detecting frontotemporal dementia in those most at risk A smartphone app could help detect a leading cause of early-onset dementia in people who are at high risk of developing it, data suggests. Scientists have demonstrated that cognitive tests done via a smartphone app are at least as …

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The royals are perennial clickbait, but the wild online bunkum over the Princess of Wales reveals new and darker forces On TikTok, there is a short clip of what an AI voiceover claims is a supposed “ring glitch” in the video in which Princess of Wales reveals her cancer diagnosis. It has 1.3 million views. …

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Delaying the Voice Engine technology rollout minimises the potential for misinformation in an important global election year A new tool from OpenAI that can generate a convincing clone of anyone’s voice using just 15 seconds of recorded audio has been deemed too risky for general release, as the AI lab seeks to minimise the threat …

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