From stalkers to authoritarian states, the use and abuse of facial recognition tech Get people talking about the gadgets they wish existed but don’t, and soon the idea of “glasses with a computer built in that tells you who you’re looking at” comes up. Such “augmented reality” devices seem so obviously desirable that someone usually …
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Tech company faces negligence lawsuit after Philip Paxson died from driving off a North Carolina bridge destroyed years ago The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google for negligence after he died from crashing into a creek below a collapsed bridge at the alleged behest of Google Maps, the Associated Press reported. On …
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Physicist Max Tegmark says competition too intense for tech executives to pause development to consider AI risks The scientist behind a landmark letter calling for a pause in developing powerful artificial intelligence systems have said tech executives did not halt their work because they are locked in a “race to the bottom”. Max Tegmark, a …
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Climate coalition cites Twitter’s lack of clear policies to stop incorrect information and confusion from Musk takeover A report ranking climate change misinformation gave Twitter (recently rebranded as X) only a single point out of a 21-point scorecard when assessing policies aimed at reducing inaccurate information – the worst out of five major tech platforms. …
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In this week’s newsletter: Maligned on its 2016 release, No Man’s Sky offers a richer, more human-centred drama than the Bethesda blockbuster’s empty experience • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Like several million other video game players, I spent many hours last week travelling the galaxy in Starfield, the …
In Home Office initiative, survivors urge Mark Zuckerberg to rethink changes to Messenger and Instagram Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to roll out encrypted messaging on his platforms will let child abusers “hide in the dark”, according to a government campaign urging the tech billionaire to halt the move. The Facebook founder has been under pressure from …
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Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup, Neuralink, said it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruiting patients for its first human trial. The company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device …
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Brother and sister duo Grace and Harry Chadwick have followed in the footsteps of Charlie Brooker’s Bandersnatch with an interactive film about body swapping The receptionist is standing behind the hotel desk, his back towards me. An uncomfortable moment passes as I wait for him to register my presence. He doesn’t move. A giant, Father …
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Company says it believes about 193,000 customers are affected by the breach, which it spotted in early September Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Pizza Hut’s Australian operations have been hit by a cyber-attack, the company says, with customer …
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Charles Randell says some of the exchanges the FCA was pressed to allow to trade in the UK are now being investigated in the US The UK’s financial watchdog came under “political pressure” to welcome crypto firms into the British market, its former chairman has said. Charles Randell, who stepped down as chairman of the …
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