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Artificial intelligence has been identified as one of the top three emerging technologies in conservation, helping protect species around the world There’s a strand of thinking, from sci-fi films to Stephen Hawking that suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humans. But conservationists are increasingly turning to AI as an innovative tech solution to …

Five ways AI is saving wildlife – from counting chimps to locating whales Read More »

A reader has a poor mobile signal in a rural area and had every excuse in the book from BT for the delay I live in rural Derbyshire and have been trying to get broadband installed since July last year. Since placing the order, I have received every excuse in the book from BT as …

I was driven up the pole by a nine-month wait for broadband Read More »

What does it feel like to be ‘12% machine’? An ex-soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan examines the implications of advances in medical technology with intelligence and humanity It is now 13 years since Harry Parker stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, creating a blast that would result in the loss of …

Hybrid Humans by Harry Parker review – man and machine in harmony Read More »

Some accounts claiming to support the Canada trucker protests are run by con artists abroad When Facebook removed dozens of groups dedicated to Canada’s anti-government “Freedom Convoy” protests earlier this month, it didn’t do so because of extremism or conspiracies rife within the protests. It was because the groups were being run by scam artists. …

Disinformation for profit: scammers cash in on conspiracy theories Read More »

Social media giant accused of inaction after users post ‘horrifying and hateful content’ Facebook is under renewed scrutiny this weekend, accused of continuing to allow activists to incite ethnic massacres in Ethiopia’s escalating war. Analysis by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and the Observer found Facebook is still letting users post content inciting violence …

Facebook ‘lets vigilantes in Ethiopia incite ethnic killing’ Read More »

The Norwegian photographer on capturing his youngest daughter’s lockdown frustration It was April 2020, the sixth week of home schooling, and eight-year-old Lara was fed up. Her father, photographer Helge Skodvin, along with his wife and two elder daughters, was stuck inside with Lara at home in Norway. The first wave of Covid had closed …

‘I was walking past her bedroom and spotted her legs sticking out’: Helge Skodvin’s best phone picture Read More »

Exclusive: Investigation uncovers evidence of contaminated air and water from one of Indonesia’s largest nickel mines Read more in our Battery life series A Guardian investigation into nickel mining and the electric vehicle industry has found evidence that a source of drinking water close to one of Indonesia’s largest nickel mines is contaminated with unsafe …

‘We are afraid’: Erin Brockovich pollutant linked to global electric car boom Read More »

Gallery at site of uprising against colonial rule accuses US museum of stonewalling request for artefact A statue depicting the angry spirit of a Belgian officer beheaded during an uprising in Congo in 1931 is at the centre of a tug of war between a US museum and a Congolese gallery at the site of …

Row about Congolese statue loan escalates into legal battle over NFTs Read More »

The company has been hit with several discrimination lawsuits but this from a government agency may have wider implications For Black employees at Tesla’s flagship California plant, coming into work could mean being harassed, bullied by a supervisor or finding racist graffiti sprayed on factory walls. That’s according to a new lawsuit filed by California’s …

Black workers accused Tesla of racism for years. Now California is stepping in Read More »

Critics say the enormous electricity consumption needed to sustain cryptocurrency is fueling the climate crisis and now threatens a partial resurrection of coal in the US Environmentalists in Montana called it the “death watch”. Following years of financial losses one of the handful of remaining coal-fired power plants in the state appeared doomed, its likely …

Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared Read More »