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Experts aim to draw up UK legislation to protect against misuse of artificial intelligence “We can’t let existential risks blind us to the challenges we face today,” says Gina Neff, a tech expert at the University of Cambridge and co-chair of a new TUC taskforce on artificial intelligence in the workplace. “Those challenges are real, …

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In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for granted Douglas Adams created the most famous ebook reader – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – almost 30 years before the first Kindle was released, but he didn’t restrict his …

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Officials reflected policing minister’s enthusiasm to roll out controversial technology across the country, particularly in retail settings Senior officials at the Home Office secretly lobbied the UK’s independent privacy regulator to act “favourably” towards a private firm keen to roll out controversial facial recognition technology across the country, according to internal government emails seen by …

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As brokers exploit the hunt for tests with an automated ‘bot’ system, many are paying extortionate fees to ditch their L-plates Britain’s system of allocating driving tests is in disarray in many parts of the country as learner drivers are forced to travel hundreds of miles for their tests or pay unofficial brokers up to …

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Banning phones in schools might help children concentrate in class but how will it impact their overall relationship with devices? Tuesday started like any other: before I was even really awake, I looked at my phone. Weather. Transphobes. Did Anybody Famous Die? Potential Polly Pocket/Scrabble/Settlers of Catan movies. But unlike other days, I then put …

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Work is needed to counter the ‘oily’ image of jobs for engineers, and stop the digital sector from luring the best graduates ‘It is incredibly hard to recruit enough experienced people,” says civil engineer Liz Chapman, head of design at the UK arm of global infrastructure business Stantec. “I have never known it to be …

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Flannery Associates, the California group behind the $800m effort, launched a website showcasing renderings The Silicon Valley elites who have been quietly buying up northern California farmland for several years have gone public with their vision for the utopian city they hope to build from scratch on 55,000 acres in Solano county. This week the …

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Publisher is latest news organisation to block the artificial intelligence company from harvesting content to create its tools The Guardian has blocked OpenAI from using its content to power artificial intelligence products such as ChatGPT. Concerns that OpenAI is using unlicensed content to create its AI tools have led to writers bringing lawsuits against the …

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Nintendo’s Shiro Mouri and Takashi Tezuka talk through Mario’s forthcoming return to 2D When I was about eight years old, someone in the playground at school told me that if you crouched down on top of one of the colourful platforms in a certain level of Super Mario Bros 3, Mario would fall through the …

Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Nintendo recaptures Mario’s old magic Read More »

Everstone’s debut video game hopes to do for 10th-century China what Ubisoft’s open-world series did for ancient Greece and renaissance Italy Assassin’s Creed and Total War have proven that video games can be better than any tattered textbook at bringing history alive – though they do tend to retread the same old battlegrounds of western …

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