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Essence Festival of Culture, held annually in New Orleans, sues corporation, citing its ‘intentional exploitation of Black culture’ Spotify last year hosted an event using the branding of what is arguably the US’s largest Black cultural festival without permission, according to a lawsuit which pits the streaming giant against the organizers of the Essence Festival …

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As platforms such as Omegle and Roblox proliferate so do warnings about technology being ‘weaponised to abuse children’. What can families do? Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast “In less than 30 seconds I saw a man clearly masturbating on camera,” Kirra Pendergast says, describing a visit to …

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Move is to address ‘extreme levels’ of data scraping and system manipulation, says Elon Musk Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday. Verified accounts were temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, …

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Tech firm gives parents greater control over their children’s online activities, but not all kids have consistent supervision Social media giant Meta this week introduced new parental supervision tools, but child protection and anti-sex trafficking organizations say the new measures offer little protection to the children most vulnerable to exploitation, and divert the responsibility from …

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For a street photographer in a New York zoo, wildlife and children came together brilliantly It happens to be his daughter Tess’s 16th birthday on the day I speak with Sheldon Serkin about this photograph, which he took when Tess (on right) was just six. Sheldon and his wife, Tali, had taken Tess and her …

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A Netflix standup show was ‘written by bots’. A TV writer has scripted joke software. And now artificial intelligence is taking on improv I’ve seen some bad comedy acts over the years – but not, until now, one that is part of an existential threat to humanity. One of artificial intelligence’s pre-eminent boffins, Geoffrey Hinton, …

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Shares of Apple, which is also the world’s most valuable listed company, were up 1.3% at $191.99 in morning trading Apple market capitalization on Friday breached the $3tn mark for the first time since January last year, as investors bet on the iPhone maker’s ability to grow its revenue even as it explores new markets …

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The parents of the home computer gamers of the 1980s presumably hoped we’d become programmers or accountants, but instead their kids ended up like me I had one of those ads pop up on Twitter recently. You know the ones. Not the weirdly suggestive ones trying to get you to download some crap free-to-play mobile …

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2020’s Tell Me Why from French studio Don’t Nod remains the best trans story in games – and we could use more of them Now is the perfect time to play 2020’s story-driven adventure game Tell Me Why: in honour of Pride month, it’s currently free to download. Developer Don’t Nod’s tale follows a trans …

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This week in artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is either going to save humanity or finish it off, depending on who you speak to. Either way, every week there are new developments and breakthroughs. Here are just some of the AI stories that have emerged in recent days: • The US company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, …

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