If only Musk would sacrifice his fortune and reputation and close down the site, people like me could get back to doing something useful with our time Where are we all going when Twitter dies? Mastodon? Hive? Back to sitting in saggy armchairs reading chunky books? Personally, I’m hoping it’s the latter, but I’m not …
Annual wraps remind me I’m tethered to my phone like a sad puppy. So give me a round-up from the app with the plainest of truths Over the last few weeks a particularly pernicious form of alert has been clogging up our phones. It is the beast with many heads – all of which are …
Apple and Google’s AI turn in a booming market may sound less than human and raise the ire of voiceover actors, but it has cost benefits For the first few seconds, the narrator of Kristen Ethridge’s new romance audiobook, Shelter from the Storm, sounds like a human being. The voice is light and carefully enunciated, …
Amazon chief points to company’s rapid hiring in recent years while saying layoffs mainly to hit its brick-and-mortar stores Amazon has announced it will cut more than 18,000 jobs from its workforce – the largest set of layoffs in the US company’s history – while business software maker Salesforce is to cut 8,000 workers in …
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Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move that may mark the beginning of the end for human narrators. The strategy marks an attempt to upend the lucrative and fast-growing …
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Cheekily enjoyable chiller where a devastated girl seems saved by an eerily self-possessed robot companion – but all is not as it seems Not a robot so much as a hi-tech Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together with bits of Robocop and Terminator, but cheekily enjoyable just the same. This is a sci-fi chiller co-written by horror …
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Irish regulator fines Facebook owner €390m after EU rejects argument for use of data to drive personalised ads Meta has had a blow dealt to its business model by an EU decision that could force the Instagram and Facebook owner to ask users to “opt-in” to having their data used for personalised ads. Ireland’s Data …
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Agreement caps regulator’s investigation into cryptocurrency’s compliance with requirements to prevent money laundering US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reached a $100m settlement with New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), the exchange and the regulator said in statements on Wednesday. The settlement, which includes a $50m penalty, caps the regulator’s investigation into the firm’s compliance …
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Since Elon Musk’s takeover, advertisers have paused spending amid fears of a rise in divisive content Twitter has said it will relax restrictions on political advertising as it seeks to generate more revenue after Elon Musk’s $44bn (£36.4bn) takeover of the platform. The social media platform banned political advertising in 2019 after its then chief …
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As Australia looks to the US and Europe on electric vehicle safety rules, carmakers are experimenting with sounds that will effectively warn pedestrians Take a walk down any busy street and the noise can hit like a speaker accidentally left on full volume. The growls of engines accelerating when the traffic light turns green, motorbikes …
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