UN announces plan to tackle phenomenon as survey finds people worry particularly about impact on elections More than 85% of people are worried about the impact of online disinformation and 87% believe it has already harmed their country’s politics, according to a global survey, as the United Nations announced a plan to tackle the phenomenon. …
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Big chip and graphics upgrades come at great cost to wallet and battery life for difficult second act Microsoft’s latest top-end laptop sticks with its novel screen-flipping form, with upgrades on the inside aimed at keeping up with the powerhouse competition – but these improvements come with a very steep price increase. The Surface Laptop …
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More than a dozen attenders of NFT group’s festival, which used ultraviolet light, complained of ‘eye burn’ on social media The company behind the Bored Ape crypto art craze is looking into reports that people have been suffering from eye burn, extreme pain and impaired vision after attending one of its events, which was lit …
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At its first showcase, the ChatGPT creator unveiled an app store, a new AI model, and a legal strategy for copyright infringement suits Rather than remove copyrighted material from ChatGPT’s training dataset, the chatbot’s creator is offering to cover its clients’ legal costs for copyright infringement suits. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Monday: “We …
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It’s a company’s dream business model – the services are too difficult to switch, and small price hikes are often overlooked Netflix recently announced another price increase. It was just a couple of bucks. No big deal, right? Wrong. This price increase comes after another announced increase back in 2022 and this time actually ranges …
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Former Daily Mail columnist and far-right agitator show their gratitude after rejoining social media platform The former Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins and the far-right agitator Tommy Robinson have thanked Elon Musk for reinstating their accounts on X after being banned for “hateful conduct”. Hopkins, who found fame as a candidate on BBC’s The Apprentice, …
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Commuter favourite gets premium upgrade with immersive sound and better Bluetooth – but huge price tag Bose’s latest top of the range headphones break new ground with a more premium look, advanced connectivity, immersive spatial audio and a supremely comfortable design. And a hefty price tag. The QuietComfort Ultra headphones cost an eye-watering £450 (€500/$429/A$649) …
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Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earnings In September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours. His followers were suitably wowed – until some started to question if …
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Binance and Coinbase are under investigation – but Bitcoin was trading at highest value in a year as FTX founder convicted of fraud As the trial of the former crypto star and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried began last month, headlines declared cryptocurrency was on trial too. But when Bankman-Fried was found guilty on seven counts …
The Stanford professor and ‘godmother’ of artificial intelligence on why existential worries are not her priority, and her work to ensure the technology improves the human condition Fei-Fei Li is a pioneer of modern artificial intelligence (AI). Her work provided a crucial ingredient – big data – for the deep learning breakthroughs that occurred in …
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