Social media app, launched in the wake of Twitter chaos, recorded 576,000 active users in August, down 79% from 2.3 million in July The daily usage of Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter, continues to slump after a strong start in its first weeks of existence. Engagement with the social media app is down 79% from …
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A hit-and-miss documentary often struggles to explain the hows and whys of the Bangladesh Central Bank cyber heist of 2016 Cybercrime, on top of being difficult to detect and even more so to prove, is notoriously tricky to visualize. The impact may be tangible, even devastating – nuclear plants damaged, hospitals disabled, pipelines shut down …
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Walking robot who looks like a Nazi youth leader turns out – surprise surprise – to have creepy designs on his owner As if the future of AI wasn’t already nightmarish enough, along comes this British sci-fi thriller with its storyline about an AI servant becoming dangerously infatuated with his female owner. It’s a creepy …
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District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s true-life tale is unable to swerve the cliches yet delivers pedal-to-the-metal entertainment South African-Canadian director Neill Blomkamp arrived with a bang in 2009 thanks to District 9, an urgent sci-fi fable that used modern fears of extraterrestrial invaders to tell an old-as-time story of racism and segregation. Blomkamp’s interest in …
One marketplace firm says Amazon is only ‘delaying the pain’ of having to wait a week for their proceeds Amazon has partially relented following a row about new rules affecting thousands of marketplace sellers and is now releasing some of their sale proceeds. The online retailer had told many of its sellers in the UK …
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Lighter, slicker, gapless folder has great multitasking software and rapid chip – but extremely high price Samsung’s latest folding phone-tablet sets new standards for the most hi-tech of gadgets – and with it comes a very high price tag. The Galaxy Z Fold 5 is an important update for Samsung in the face of stiff …
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Meta boss says ‘time to move on’ after Twitter owner fails to name date and says he needs surgery Mark Zuckerberg has said he is moving on from a rumoured cage fight with Elon Musk, claiming the Tesla boss “isn’t serious”. The rival billionaire tech bosses seemingly agreed to a brawl in June when Musk …
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Technology proves able to identify dozens of species in thousands of hours of recordings Researchers have developed arrays of AI-controlled cameras and microphones to identify animals and birds and to monitor their movements in the wild – technology, they say, that should help tackle Britain’s growing biodiversity problem. The robot monitors have been tested at …
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The most marvellous app I’ve had the good fortune to click on has become the subject of the latest moral panic For the vast majority of human history, it has been impossible for anyone – no matter their wealth or status – to watch a video of a man who eats entire blocks of cheese …
If you thought social media had a hand in getting Trump elected, watch what happens when you throw AI into the mix It looks like 2024 will be a pivotal year for democracy. There are elections taking place all over the free world – in South Africa, Ghana, Tunisia, Mexico, India, Austria, Belgium, Lithuania, Moldova …
