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UK car loans: the little-known clause that means you could walk away from your deal

The right to voluntary termination allows the buyer to escape the agreement provided they have repaid 50% of the total amount due If you are one of the thousands of people across the UK struggling to meet their car finance repayments, are you aware you can give the vehicle back and walk away debt-free once …

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Behind the scenes of TV’s first deep fake comedy: ‘None of it is illegal. Everything is silly’

Is that Harry Kane and Stormzy arguing over a broken patio tile? This new, CGI-assisted comedy is astonishing to watch – but is it ethically OK? Spencer Jones beckons me into a Soho editing suite. “Do you want to see some of the stuff we’ve done so far?” he asks, readying a clip of his …

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‘Lack of respect’: outcry over Amazon employee’s death on warehouse floor

Work carried on as usual in the facility as workers were not informed of colleague’s death even as the body lay on the floor On the morning of 27 December 2022 at the Amazon DEN4 warehouse in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 61-year-old Rick Jacobs died on the job after experiencing a cardiac event, right before a …

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Musk seeks to move trial out of San Francisco, claiming he can’t get fair trial

Musk says negative local media coverage of shareholder lawsuit over 2018 Tesla tweet has biased jurors against him Elon Musk has urged a federal judge to shift a trial in a shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco because he says negative local media coverage has biased potential jurors against him. Instead, in a filing submitted …

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The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel | John Naughton

A new AI-assisted chatbot that can generate eerily fluent prose is only the latest in a long series of useful tech accessories So the ChatGPT language processing model burst upon an astonished world and the air was rent by squeals of delight and cries of outrage or lamentation. The delighted ones were those transfixed by …

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‘The people are almost Lowry-esque’: Matt Writtle’s best phone picture

The British photographer didn’t want to climb Pulpit Rock in Dorset, but his wife did Matt Writtle wasn’t scared of heights in his youth, but says that over the years he’s become increasingly reluctant to take the risk. As such, the British photographer didn’t make it to the pinnacle of Pulpit Rock, on the Dorset …

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Russian hackers targeted US nuclear research laboratories, records reveal

Cold River team launched attack on three facilities last summer as it escalates hacking campaign against Ukraine’s allies A Russian hacking team known as Cold River targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States this past summer, according to internet records reviewed by Reuters and five cybersecurity experts. Between August and September, as Vladimir …

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Job cuts and falling shares: how did it all go so wrong for the US tech sector?

As Amazon axes 18,000 roles and Tesla loses 65% of its value, we examine the causes of the glitch hitting Silicon Valley Amazon announced 18,000 job cuts, Apple’s share price fell below $2tn (£1.7tn) and there was more bad news from Tesla: it has been another tough week for big US tech firms. But this …

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Chameleon cars, urine scanners and other standouts from CES 2023

AI-ovens, dual-display or 3D screen laptops and satellite SOS texting shine at Las Vegas tech show From colour-changing cars, dual-screen laptops and satellite emergency texts to AI-ovens and a urine-scanning smart toilet upgrade, the annual CES tech show in Las Vegas had more concepts of the future on show than ever before. The biggest consumer …

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