Sega and Nintendo are releasing new games within days of each other this October, both nostalgic callbacks to the era of 2D platformers. Can they push the genre forward? • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Rivalry is a vital element of fandom. Whether its punks v rockers, Star Trek …
Google has said the study makes “extremely inaccurate claims” and stated that advertisers are only paying for ads when they are viewed Google may have misled dozens of business and government advertisers about the viewership of ads running on third party websites and apps, while charging for them, a new report has claimed. Google’s TrueView …
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From illustration to translation, young people worry that they will have to choose their paths carefully Ronan Carolan has always been the creative type, and after attending an art school’s open day last autumn he thought he had settled on illustration as a degree. But as the Ucas deadline approached, he began to have second …
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As countries scramble to deal with the risks and rewards of AI, the European Union is way ahead on the first laws regulating artificial intelligence. Here’s what’s really in the new AI Act • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Deepfakes, facial recognition and existential threat: politicians, …
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The head investor of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund worries more about AI affecting the country’s portfolio than his own collection of paintings For a prolific art collector, Nicolai Tangen is remarkably relaxed about the prospect of masterpieces created by robots. The threat of AI-made paintings, impossible to distinguish from human brushstrokes, has sparked soul-searching and …
John Goodenough’s research enabled the technological revolution that powers most of our gadgets and tools John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel prize in chemistry for his pioneering work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones and computers to pacemakers and electric cars, has died at 100, …
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Artificial intelligence can’t replace human professionals but it could transform the way they treat diseases such as cancer, and save lives Mihaela van der Schaar is director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine at the University of Cambridge From the soaring costs of US healthcare to the recurrent NHS crisis, it can often …
An Aussie Dolly Parton is one of the performers protesting to Meta as a ban on impersonators threatens their careers Big music festivals are not the only places to enjoy a headline act such as Adele, Taylor Swift or Dolly Parton. Convincing impersonators of the biggest names in music, and of other late, great stars, …
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Rapid developments in AI are forcing managers and politicians alike to confront profound questions about the future of jobs With a low electrical hum, a small team of boxy, wheeled robots called “ants” criss-cross the top of a giant 3D grid of grey storage crates – 60,000 of them – ceaselessly arranging and rearranging them …
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Prototypes are finally taking off after a difficult time for investors, and some surprising challengers have joined the race Among the fighter jets and military helicopters performing for the crowds at the Paris airshow last week, a strange two-seater craft lifted off the runway. Like a drone crossed with a helicopter, the Volocopter has an …
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