The world’s largest tech event has cutting-edge TVs and even a VW with ChatGPT – but cheap gadgets and big tech have dented its influence. Plus, HMRC comes for side hustlers and Substack ‘doesn’t like Nazis’ • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The Consumer Electronics Show …
TechScape: Is the Consumer Electronics Show still relevant? Read More »
Focusing on power and politics, this Mácula Interactive docu-game draws on muralists, an assassination and newspaper reporting in painstakingly historically accurate detail How many stories are hidden in the murals of Diego Rivera? What was it like to witness the creation of a modern Latin American nation, to sit in the classrooms of stridentism and …
Beijing set the goal of being the global AI leader by 2030, but that was before the emergence of ChatGPT Of the many events that stand out as noteworthy in online discussions across Chinese social media in 2023, it’s perhaps the rise of ChatGPT that will prove to be the most significant. Although the chatbot …
In 2008, Milda Mitkute and a friend set up a website to clear out her closet. It soon grew exponentially. Now Vinted has 16 million UK users and is the first Lithuanian ‘unicorn’. Can it make secondhand our first choice? When is a jumble sale also a billion-euro tech startup? When it has 500m items …
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products Business live – latest updates The developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their …
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Read More »
Internal Revenue Service alleges Rodney Burton was part of a network that made ‘fraudulent’ presentations claiming high returns for investors based on crypto-mining operations that did not exist A promoter of the HyperVerse crypto investment scheme has been arrested and charged in the US for his alleged role in the scheme, with court documents claiming …
HyperVerse crypto promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ arrested and charged in US Read More »
It gave me friends, fun and new horizons – but the dark side of social media was a threat to democracy long before Elon Musk Last year was the year when Twitter, now known as X, broke irreparably. In 2023 engagement fell off a cliff, advertisers withdrew and long-term influencers stopped – or greatly reduced …
Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but US unions have been slow to act From algorithms firing staff without human intervention to software keeping tabs on bathroom breaks, technologies including artificial intelligence are already upsetting workers and unsettling workplaces. At call centers, AI systems record and grade how workers …
‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work Read More »
The online publishing service has been criticised for the way it has allowed extremist propaganda to flourish on the site It’s funny how naive smart people can be sometimes. Take the founders of Substack, a US-based online platform that enables writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. It also enables them to earn money …
The photographer on bringing a fresh perspective to snapping dancers Michelle Z Simmons met up with ballet dancer Lucas Labrador in downtown Roswell, a suburb of Atlanta. Simmons had been a photographer for only a few years, but had developed a love of shooting dancers. “I had photographed my niece, who is now with Virginia’s Richmond Ballet, …
‘I hope it makes everyone want to jump!’: Michelle Z Simmons’ best phone picture Read More »
