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Cabinet Office assessment also upgrades likelihood of ‘catastrophic’ pandemic hitting the country Disruption to energy supplies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and another pandemic, are two of the most significant risks to the UK shown in an updated government register that declassifies some threats for the first time. In its first update for three years, …

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English and Mandarin speakers found to have the same level of accuracy when detecting artificially generated speech Humans are able to detect artificially generated speech only 73% of the time, a study has found, with the same levels of accuracy found in English and Mandarin speakers. Researchers at University College London used a text-to-speech algorithm …

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YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson claims his reputation ‘irreparably harmed’ as customers complain of ‘revolting’ MrBeast burgers The YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, more widely known as MrBeast, is suing the company behind his fast food chain MrBeast Burger for making “inedible” food. The lawsuit, filed on Monday, claims the company has “irreparably harmed” his reputation. He has asked …

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Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals The images pop up in Mophat Okinyi’s mind when he’s alone, or when he’s about to sleep. Okinyi, a former content moderator for Open AI’s ChatGPT in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of four people in that role who have …

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Dara Khosrowshahi expresses surprise at Wired journalist’s $51.69 journey to company’s annual product event in New York The chief executive of Uber expressed surprise when an interviewer told him he paid $51.69 for a three-mile ride to the company’s annual product event in New York. Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over at Uber six years ago …

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In this week’s newsletter: the D&D-inspired RPG is an almost bottomless sandbox, and represents a new frontier for the genre • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here This week brings a preposterously generous gift for lovers of timesink role-playing games: Larian Studios’s Baldur’s Gate 3. Depending on your level of …

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From the Gutenberg press to the word processor, a detailed trawl through the history of print offers lessons for the digital age The Gutenberg Parenthesis is a term coined by Danish scholar Lars Ole Sauerberg, who proposed that the history of literary culture as we had hitherto known it – the 500-plus years from the …

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PC, PlayStation 4/5 (version tested), Xbox Series S/X, Nintendo Switch; Visai StudiosThe biggest drawback to this mouthwatering narrative cooking game is that there isn’t enough of it Venba and her husband are two Tamil immigrants who live in Canada, struggling with a new language, culture and a lack of job prospects – and hoping that …

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Preliminary results from major trial show use of technology almost halves human workload From smart stethoscopes to predicting bed demand: how AI can support healthcare The use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening is safe and can almost halve the workload of radiologists, according to the world’s most comprehensive trial of its kind. Breast …

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Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of photographing the moon Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast With the August 2023 supermoon rising tonight, also known as a sturgeon full moon, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try to get an …

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