Starlink satellites, carried on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, can beam signals directly to smartphones from space SpaceX launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the first set of Starlink satellites that can beam signals directly to smartphones from space. Elon Musk’s space business struck a deal in August 2022 with wireless carriers to provide …
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Newsletter writers with thousands of subscribers threaten to leave platform, which says banning extremists makes things worse The email newsletter service Substack is facing a user revolt after its chief executive defended hosting and handling payments for “Nazis” on its platform, citing anti-censorship reasons. In a note on the site published in December, the chief …
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From Abba to Tupac Shakur, more and more deceased or ageing stars are being brought back to their former glory thanks to AI Return of the king: Elvis hologram show to premiere in London Elvis Presley’s immersive concert experience is set to leave London all shook up, with an AI rendering of the king of …
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US labor agency says eight employees were let go for circulating a letter calling the founder a ‘distraction and embarrassment’ The rocket and satellite maker SpaceX was accused by a US labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a letter calling the founder and CEO, Elon Musk, a “distraction and embarrassment”. A regional …
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By reusing and repurposing existing writing into viral fragments on Twitter, @Horse_ebooks functioned like today’s chatbots. The Guardian spoke to Jacob Bakkila, the human behind the account More than a decade before an AI-powered chatbot could do your homework, help you make dinner or pass the bar exam, there was @Horse_ebooks. The primitive predecessor to …
To farewell Guardian Australia’s Full Story host, we asked her to share her favourite clips – which are part-political satire, part-toilet humour. She contains multitudes Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If you spend enough time around me you will hear my big, loud cackle – it’s often featured on the Full Story podcast. …
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There is no standard diagnosis for ‘phone addiction’, and a debate rages about whether there should be. But will medicalizing a behavior help or harm those suffering from it? • Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone Ananya Jain never planned on becoming addicted to TikTok. …
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Exclusive: Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him A chief executive officer whose claimed qualifications appear to have no basis in fact was used to promote the HyperVerse crypto fund, alongside celebrity messages of support, as part …
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Unless checks are put in place, citizens and voters may soon face AI-generated content that bears no relation to reality André Spicer is professor of organisational behaviour at the Bayes Business School at City, University of London During 2023, the shape of politics to come appeared in a video. In it, Hillary Clinton – the …
Dutch firm says decision was down to licence change, after initial report connected it to US pressure A Dutch manufacturer has cancelled shipments of hi-tech microchip machinery to China after pressure from the US government, it has been reported. ASML, a key firm in the global semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, was due to export three …
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