Image-generators such as Dall-E 2 can produce pictures on any theme you wish for in seconds. Some creatives are alarmed but others are sceptical of the hype When the concept artist and illustrator RJ Palmer first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of …
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The 30-year-old wunderkind last week saw his giant FTX digital currency exchange collapse and his $17bn fortune disappear He drives a Toyota Corolla to work, lives in a house with 10 roommates and a goldendoodle dog named Gofer, sometimes sleeps under his desk on a beanbag and was, until this week, worth tens of billions …
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Users fleeing Elon Musk’s takeover will find themselves in a different world – quixotic, communal and defiantly democratic Mastodon feels like the old internet. “Welcome to Mastodon, where you can boost a toot from hellsite.site to mas.to, but remember to CW politics and boot doxers or your instance might be defederated” is a sentence that …
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Russian teenagers hanging out reminded the photographer of his own childhood in a workers’ settlement It was in woods behind an apartment building that photographer Dmitry Markov noticed a group of teenagers hanging out on the old couch and rope swing. He was in Pskov, a Russian city close to the Estonian border. Markov had …
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World’s richest man has made a spectacle of his ownership of the social media platform, and advertisers, employees and regulators are none too pleased Elon Musk has unleashed chaos at Twitter in the few short weeks since he took the helm of the company, and experts say lawsuits, regulatory intervention and ultimate financial collapse could …
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Before Elon Musk took over the badge was granted to celebrities and journalists verified by the platform to prevent impersonation Twitter’s relaunched premium service – which grants blue check verification labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month – was unavailable on Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of …
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Cryptocurrency exchange run by Changpeng Zhao pulled out of deal to rescue its rival One of the world’s largest cyrptocurrency exchanges, FTX, has collapsed, with what is reported to be an $8bn (£6.8bn) black hole on its balance sheet. Of its 1 million users, many are now unable withdraw their funds. On Friday the FTX …
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People have predicted robots will destroy the labour market, but Amazon believes investment in robotics could create jobs Trapped in a metal cage in a corner of a 350,000 sq ft Amazon warehouse outside Boston last week a lonely yellow robot arm sorted through packages, preparing items to be shipped out to customers who demand …
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Founder Sam Bankman-Fried resigns as chief executive The world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and the founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has resigned as chief executive. In a statement, FTX said a range of related businesses including Alameda Research, a trading firm also owned by Bankman-Fried, had filed for …
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The game developer talks about how the hit smartphone card game is a brand new take on deck-builders – and why one simple quirk makes it irresistible • Read our review of Marvel Snap here There’s a lot that is surprising about Marvel Snap, the new free-to-play digital card game from one of the minds …
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