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AlphaMissense’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disorders Scientists at Google DeepMind have built an artificial intelligence program that can predict whether millions of genetic mutations are either harmless or likely to cause disease, in an effort to speed up research and the diagnosis of rare disorders. The program makes predictions …

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Unredacted court documents show digital-only cylindrical Xbox Series X console plans, a new controller and future Bethesda games releases An unredacted document accidentally made public as part of Microsoft’s court battle with the Federal Trade Commission over its proposed $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard has revealed key information regarding the future of Xbox as well …

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PC, Xbox, PS5This hack-and-slasher clings to its Soulsborne heritage too tightly, but does creative things that no other Soulslike until now has managed to pull off The Soulslike subgenre of games, named after the Dark Souls series of obtuse hack-and-slashers by From Software, are always punishingly difficult. It’s their whole raison d’etre – or at …

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Alison Lomax, London chief of the video platform, says it is committed to embracing artificial intelligence – but ‘responsibly’ Alison Lomax’s presence on the video streaming platform she runs is relatively scant compared with the YouTubers with whom she spends much of her time. But what clips exist succinctly chart the marketing tech revolution she’s …

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Hampstead theatre, LondonLauren Gunderson’s smart play finds a software engineer creating a digital version of a sister who has disappeared While screenwriters strike, partly over the threat from artificial intelligence, playwrights are busy writing about AI. Lauren Gunderson’s Anthropology is the second world premiere in a week featuring pseudo-humanity – after Alan Ayckbourn’s Constant Companions …

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In this week’s newsletter: It’s been ten years since the dawn of the iPhone age – and since I started covering tech at the Guardian. This is how much the world has changed since • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The annual cadence of Apple’s money-printing press conferences is a …

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Billionaire also says platform has 550 million monthly users generating up to 200m posts a day Business live – latest updates Elon Musk has indicated that X, formerly known as Twitter, is preparing to charge all users for accessing the platform. The X owner said erecting a paywall around the business would ward off the …

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Mayor of London expected to tell social media firms of campaign and urge them to ‘bear down on the attempts to distort truth’ Sadiq Khan is expected to claim that “hundreds of thousands of dollars” were spent on an anti-Ulez online manipulation campaign on Twitter, citing research conducted after Labour’s unexpected Uxbridge byelection defeat. The …

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Benjamin Netanyahu told the billionaire owner to clamp down on the hate on the site formerly known as Twitter Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, urged Elon Musk to address the proliferation of antisemitism on the billionaire’s social media platform X. In an in-person meeting in California on Monday, Netanyahu said he hoped Musk would find …

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One in three online daters have been ditched by emoji. But what are the symbols that spell out ‘It’s not you, it’s me’? Name: Emoji dumping. Age: No more than 15. Continue reading… One in three online daters have been ditched by emoji. But what are the symbols that spell out ‘It’s not you, it’s …

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