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Thin and light performance machine continues to set standard for fixable, upgradeable laptops The fixable and upgradeable premium Framework Laptop 13 has been improved all round for 2023 and is packed with small changes that are backwards compatible with older models, making a great laptop even better. The original Framework broke new ground last year …

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Holmes, who was charged with defrauding investors in her blood-testing start-up, hoped to stay out of jail while she appealed her conviction Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must begin serving her prison sentence while she appeals her conviction on charges of defrauding investors in the failed blood-testing startup, an appeals court in San Francisco ruled on …

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Former employee accused of stealing company’s self-driving car technology and fleeing to China The US has charged a former Apple engineer accused of stealing the company’s technology on autonomous systems, including self-driving cars, and then fleeing to China. The department of justice on Tuesday announced charges in that case and several others involving the alleged …

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Sam Altman says before Senate judiciary committee that he supports guardrails for technology to minimize harms The CEO of OpenAI, the company responsible for creating artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E 2, said “regulation of AI is essential” on Tuesday as he testified in front of a Senate judiciary committee panel. In his …

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A collaboration between famed designer Yugo Nakamura and gaming auteur Tetsuya Mizuguchi has yielded one of the strangest, most compelling puzzle games of recent years Humanity was inspired by a throng of bodies. Specifically, the mass of people queueing for Comiket, the longstanding comic and pop culture convention in Tokyo. As its director Yugo Nakamura …

Lemmings meets Koyaanisqatsi: Humanity, the dream-like puzzle game that inspires delight and unease Read More »

The spinoff app is trying to do what Mastodon couldn’t and take a piece of Elon Musk’s pie. Plus: the race to save 1bn NSFW images on Imgur Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Let’s check in on social media. In February, Bluesky released its iOS app. The social network began …

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Some in the book industry have already begun exploring automation of its pitches to readers. We took this functionality for a test drive “Blurb writing is a mini art form,” Iris Murdoch once wrote in a letter to former Penguin blurb writer Elizabeth Buchan. And like many other art forms, companies have been experimenting with …

‘Beowulf is lit AF’ – could ChatGPT really write good book blurbs? Read More »

US Virgin Islands is suing the bank over sex trafficking by Epstein, saying he ‘may have referred or attempted to refer’ Musk as a client The US Virgin islands subpoenaed billionaire cars-to-rockets entrepreneur Elon Musk on Monday to obtain documents in its litigation into the role played by JPMorgan Chase bank in the activity of …

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Staff at the car-making company told to ‘think carefully’ about anything being proposed days after new Twitter CEO announced Days after announcing a new CEO at Twitter, Elon Musk has turned his eye to Tesla, ordering managers to clear all hires at the electric car maker through him. Musk communicated the decision in a memo …

Elon Musk wants Tesla hires cleared by him as he shifts focus away from Twitter Read More »

Linda Yaccarino is praised for understanding of advertisers – but Elon Musk must cede enough control “I see I have some new followers,” said Linda Yaccarino, adding side-eyes and waving hand emojis to a tongue-in-cheek post responding to the social media explosion that followed her unveiling as Twitter’s new chief executive on Friday. Still weeks …

‘The Velvet Hammer’: who is Twitter’s new CEO and can she fix its problems? Read More »