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UK firefighters called to one lithium-ion battery fire every five hours
FoI responses collected by insurer show brigades tackled 1,760 battery-linked fires in…
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Cape Verde bets on tech to reverse postcolonial brain drain
African archipelago hopes startups, digital infrastructure and diaspora investment can…
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Defence sovereignty: Europe races to build the low-cost weapons of future
With Trump wavering on Nato and war in Ukraine, Europe is scrambling to spend billions…
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Mogging, gen Z and why streaming platform Twitch has changed its rules
Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a str…
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Who is Louis Mosley, the man tasked with defending Palantir against its critics?
The company’s UK and Europe boss has become a lightning rod for the British public’s f…
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AI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures
Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than i…
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Meta sues Ofcom over fines regime for breaches of Online Safety Act
Facebook and Instagram owner claims charges should not be calculated based on a compan…
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Why is Silicon Valley suddenly obsessed with being tasteful?
Whether it’s Palantir selling a $239 chore coat, Anthropic taking over a coffee shop o…
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‘Your craft is obsolete’: WiseTech staff in limbo as AI touted as better than humans
The software company said in February it would cut 2,000 jobs but, as it touts new tec…
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Apple agrees to pay $250m after falsely claiming AI-powered Siri was ‘available now’
Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible dev…
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GameStop shares fall 10% after CEO skirts questions over eBay acquisition details
Ryan Cohen said he didn’t understand questions about how the video games retailer coul…
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Mystery sitter in Holbein portrait could be Anne Boleyn, AI analysis finds
Researchers say works may have been incorrectly inscribed in 1700s, leading to centuri…
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Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help…
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Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage
Billionaire’s role as honorary chair and main source of funding has led to boycotts an…
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Will human minds still be special in an age of AI?
We tend to think of intelligence like height – and imagine ourselves being overtaken. …
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