Erroneously putting map of Sunderland on medals for Tyneside half marathon is latest in long line of cartological mishaps Great North Run ‘Newcastle map’ medals actually show Sunderland As the organisers of the Great North Run apologise for using a map of Sunderland, rather than Newcastle, on this year’s finisher medals, it is just one …
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Phones make everything easier but they have bred impatience and diluted the escapism of going to games By Nutmeg magazine In November 1980, I was 13 and making my way to Firhill from East Kilbride alone, arriving at the game to discover there was no manager in the dugout. It seemed very strange but, as …
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Nate Soares says case of US teenager Adam Raine highlights danger of unintended consequences in super-intelligent AI The unforeseen impact of chatbots on mental health should be viewed as a warning over the existential threat posed by super-intelligent artificial intelligence systems, according to a prominent voice in AI safety. Nate Soares, a co-author of a …
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In the combat zone of the supermarket duopoly, Tennilles_deals is our protector, guiding us through each aisle with her weekly videos of sale products Maya Angelou once said “a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people” and when she said that, I can only assume she had …
Media sites are taking action on several fronts as traffic referrals dry up and AI companies plunder their content When the chief executive of the Financial Times suggested at a media conference this summer that rival publishers might consider a “Nato for news” alliance to strengthen negotiations with artificial intelligence companies there was a ripple …
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Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The landmark settlement, if approved by …
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Regulators ordered the tech giant to end ‘self-preferencing practices’ in advertising services but declined to force sale European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a €2.95bn ($3.5bn) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company as well as a …
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Film-making studio Fable has announced it will attempt to recreate the 43 minutes cut from the auteur’s 1942 film using AI An AI company is to reconstruct the missing portions of Orson Welles’ legendary mutilated masterwork The Magnificent Ambersons, it has been announced. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Showrunner platform is planning to use …
Models for reconnaissance, rescue, interception and attack are changing the way both sides operate “It’s more exhausting,” says Afer, a deputy commander of the “Da Vinci Wolves”, describing how one of the best-known battalions in Ukraine has to defend against constant Russian attacks. Where once the invaders might have tried small group assaults with armoured …
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A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer space In the largest cinema at the Venice film festival, guests gather for the premiere of Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s lavish account of a man who dared to play God and created a monster. When the young scientist reanimates a …
