Artificial intelligence can help predict style crazes, shape collections and help the environment by cutting waste material It’s Paris fashion week and the streets of the city are filled with celebrities, designers, models and journalists. Among the crowds, eagle-eyed experts are taking careful notes. These are the fashion industry’s trend forecasters. Their job is to …
Beauty brands are looking to neuroscent research and technology to sniff out the factors that lure buyers Making perfume is an art that can be traced back to ancient Greece but now modern-day perfumiers are beginning to look beyond their noses to develop the scents most likely to appeal to us. They are, instead, turning …
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Company says it will update iOS 17 to fix bug and is working with developers of apps that overload handsets Apple has identified the causes of an overheating problem with its latest iPhone series, including a software bug and using certain apps. The tech company said it would issue an update to fix the bug …
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This visually striking action thriller from Monsters director Gareth Edwards, which takes a sympathetic view of artificial intelligence, is a world-building triumph It took a while, and a rather bumpy false start with the Star Wars franchise (his Rogue One was plagued by rumours of studio interference and extensive reshoots), but with The Creator, the …
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The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades Although you’d never guess it from mainstream media, the most significant antitrust case in more than 20 years is under way in Washington. In it, the US justice department, alongside …
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Our digital profiles and possessions are ever-expanding, but what happens to them after our deaths? Tech companies are yet to offer a satisfactory solution, says the technology researcher Tamara Kneese Tamara Kneese studies how people experience technology. She is a senior researcher at New York-based nonprofit Data & Society Research Institute. Her new book, Death …
Book spamming, sometimes with multiple bogus titles going online in one day, has hit writers like Rory Cellan-Jones Publishing a book is a big occasion for any writer, and Rory Cellan-Jones is no exception. “Like any author, I obsessively check Amazon,” he said. “And this thing popped up.” Continue reading… Book spamming, sometimes with multiple …
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Look what happened when the Thai amateur photographer spotted a big pink taxi It may be the smaller of Bangkok’s two international airports, but hundreds of people can sometimes be found waiting in line for taxis outside Don Mueang. Unlike the black cabs on London’s streets, or New York’s distinctive yellow ones, Thai taxis come …
Federal civil rights agency claims in lawsuit that employees were subjected to racist slurs and graffiti including nooses A US civil rights agency has sued Tesla, claiming the electric carmaker has tolerated severe harassment of Black employees at its flagship California assembly plant. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in the lawsuit, filed …
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Firms known for funding biased AI products would need to submit demographic information on partners and founders California would become the first state to require venture capital firms to disclose the race and gender of the founders of the companies they fund, under a bill currently awaiting governor Gavin Newsom’s signature. The business community strongly …
