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Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience
Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It…
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TikTokers prepare to blitz followers with coverage of the coronation
Royal watchers with hundreds of thousands of followers on the app are gearing up to co…
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AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker
I rumbled a chatbot ruse – but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt i…
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Twitter to let publishers charge users per article read, says Elon Musk
Musk calls the one-click move a win for both the public and media organisations Twitt…
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Cyber-attack sparks fears criminals could target
National Crime Agency assessing risk after data of some National Smallbore Rifle Assoc…
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How war in Taiwan could mean the wheels come off the UK economy
Microchips are an issue, of course, but China also makes the alloy wheels our cars mos…
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UK government ‘hackathon’ to search for ways to use AI to cut asylum backlog
Three-day quest for innovations to tackle waiting list of 138,052 attacked as ‘wasting…
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Weekend podcast: Chicken Shop Date’s Amelia Dimoldenberg, being the only survivor of a plane crash, and is AI getting out of control?
Amelia Dimoldenberg recounts her journey from the Chicken Shop to Vanity Fair’s Oscars…
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AI has better ‘bedside manner’ than some doctors, study finds
ChatGPT rated higher in quality and empathy of written advice, raising possibility of …
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The Guide #84: Why movies made by artificial intelligence won’t be the future of film
In this week’s newsletter: Surely we go to the cinema to be jolted and discomfited by …
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‘They’re coming up with devious ways to take your money’: the TV hackers taking on the scammers
Scam calls are an industrial-sized nuisance. Aided by an ‘ethical hacker’, the BBC’s h…
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Amazon beats expectations in first quarter earnings as shares jump 11%
E-commerce behemoth, in the midst of aggressively cutting costs including laying-off 2…
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You be the judge: should my phone-addicted friend go on a mobile detox?
Marley says she uses TikTok for work; her flatmate says 12 hours a day is too much. Yo…
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Microsoft says EU better place for business after UK blocks Activision deal
US firm’s president issues stinging attack over blocking of $69bn takeover of games de…
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Best podcasts of the week: Sex therapist Chantelle Otten is here to save her listeners’ love lives
In this week’s newsletter: From couples keen to bring in a third party to exploring yo…
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What does UK’s ban on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard takeover mean for gaming?
CMA surprised sector by saying deal would give Seattle firm undue power to shape cloud…
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review – the best Star Wars game in 20 years
PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X/S, PC; Respawn Entertainment/EA Respawn…
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Two hours with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – a world of possibilities
A few hours with the biggest Nintendo Switch game of the year reveals a world that’s r…
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Microsoft bid for Activision Blizzard blocked by UK competition regulator
Competition and Markets Authority prevents would have been the biggest acquisition in …
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Pushing Buttons: Is the brutal new police ‘bodycam’ shoot ’em up game too indistinguishable from reality?
In this week’s newsletter: Unrecord puts players in the role of a police officer, and …
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Bitcoin is terrible for the environment – can it ever go green?
Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of energy, but activists are urging for a chan…
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The Guardian view on the electric car revolution: targets are not enough | Editorial
The government must do its bit to make new electric vehicles more affordable if mass a…
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What’s that going up in flames? Why, it’s Elon Musk’s reputation | Arwa Mahdawi
Just as SpaceX’s Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly this month, Musk…
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Human values, as well as AI, must be at the core of the future of work | Anna Thomas
Automation too often erodes conditions and job quality creating anxiety and overwork. …
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Shoot ’em up! California’s retro games arcades – in pictures
From Pac-Man to pinball, French photographer Franck Bohbot transforms the neon chaos o…
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Major tech firms face hefty fines under new digital consumer bill
Global companies like Google, Apple and Amazon could have to pay penalties of up to 10…
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One in five child abuse images found online last year were category A – report
Internet Watch Foundation says amount of material showing most extreme form of sexual …
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Far-right Britain First party given Twitter gold tick
Verification mark granted to account that was suspended in 2017 but reinstated followi…
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Millions missing out on broadband social tariffs in UK, says Ofcom
Regulator calls for better promotion of offers available to low-income households rece…
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The face of PlayStation: Shuhei Yoshida on the joy and future of video games
He’s been at PlayStation since the beginning, and seen the games industry transform be…
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The digital graveyard: BuzzFeed News joins sites hanging on in eerie afterlife
The site will remain online as an archive, alongside the Gawker reboot, the Toast, and…
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Tron: Identity review: moody sci-fi detective game is all light, no cycle
PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch; Bithell Games This visual novel spins a passable yarn in a …
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UK emergency alert test: Three looking into why users failed to get text
Network’s users report en masse that SMS, accompanied by piercing 10-second tone, neve…
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Twitter restores ‘blue tick’ free of charge to celebrities in U-turn
Decision to reinstate ‘verified’ status without distinguishing paid-for from free user…
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From pope’s jacket to napalm recipes: how worrying is AI’s rapid growth?
Google boss says issue keeps him up at night, while thousands have urged six-month pau…
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‘My remaining 13 million minutes’: productivity, ambition and being realistic in older age
The three-stage life – learn, earn, retire – seems outdated, but what model should we …
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‘These alarms save lives’: Guardian readers on the UK public warning test
On Sunday 23 April at 3pm Britons will receive an alert on their mobile phone Guardia…
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Artificial intelligence – coming to a government near you soon?
AI is already employed in various administrations in the US and its use is only set to…
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Fake accounts, chaos and few sign-ups: the first day of Twitter Blue was messy
Elon Musk’s attempt to make the social media site profitable seemed to flop as the ver…
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Electric cars: could your employer help you save thousands?
People are waking up to the benefits of using salary sacrifice schemes to buy greener …
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New Lyft CEO David Risher announces plans to lay off hundreds of workers
Employees were informed via email that a ‘significant’ number would lose their jobs to…
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How the UK emergency alert system test has been years in the making
The test of the new phone alert system this weekend comes after learning from earlier …
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‘Muted, soft, like watercolours’: The Last Guardian’s soundtrack was an appeal to the heart
Composer Takeshi Furukawa talks about creating the soundtrack for Fumito Ueda’s touchi…
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10 interesting video games about immigration
From post-Brexit satire to harrowing journeys based on research and true stories, thes…
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How to disable UK emergency alerts on your phone
Adjust these settings to stop your 4G or 5G phone making a noise during test at 3pm on…
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Fresh concerns raised over sources of training material for AI systems
Investigations reveal limited efforts to ‘clean’ datasets of fascist, pirated and mali…
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BuzzFeed News to close and parent company to make substantial layoffs
Chief executive Jonah Peretti says in company-wide email BuzzFeed ‘can no longer conti…
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Pushing Buttons: your top local multiplayer games
In this week’s newsletter: Party quiz games, an interactive thriller, a dungeon crawle…
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Crime agencies condemn Facebook and Instagram encryption plans
Global alliance including NCA and FBI says Meta’s decision to encrypt direct messages …
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Best podcasts of the week: Inside the ‘death denial’ movement’s quest to find the secret to eternal life
In this week’s newsletter: Journalist Frank Swain investigates those who want to rever…
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Thousands of Meta workers hit by new round of layoffs as company cuts costs
Social media firm will cull 4,000 jobs immediately as part of larger plan to cut 10,00…
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Google allows app developers to break away from Play billing system
UK regulator asks for views on how move will work in practice, amid concern over tech …
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Dead Island 2 review – rollicking zombie hack-n-slasher has missed its moment
Deep Silver; PC, PS4/5, Xbox Series X/S Hacking at the undead in post-apocalyptic LA i…
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‘A space to feel at ease with dying’: how video games help people through grief
Players have long found a refuge from grief in video games – and a recent wave of game…
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Netflix to end mailing of DVDs of movies to subscribers after 25 years
Streaming giant announces DVD-by-mail service to be wound down at the end of September…
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Russian hackers want to ‘disrupt or destroy’ UK infrastructure, minister warns
Cabinet Office secretary, Oliver Dowden, to issue national alert and urge companies to…
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TechScape: How Substack, YouTube, Jack Dorsey and more plan to pick Twitter’s bones
Six months after Elon Musk took over the social network, traffic is dropping – can the…
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Is Elon Musk creating a utopian city? The hellish, heavenly history of company towns
The Tesla founder has broken ground on a plot in Texas, while Google and Meta are buil…
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The disgusting food of TikTok: is it designed to eat, provoke – or arouse?
Social media has a long history of gross-out content. But on FoodTok, the recipes are …
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Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech…
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Google chief warns AI could be harmful if deployed wrongly
Sundar Pichai calls for global regulatory framework similar to nuclear treaty amid saf…
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A beginner’s guide to Super Mario
Mario might be one of the most successful video games around – and the new movie is br…
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The big picture: the neon allure of Los Angeles’s video game bars
Franck Bohbot’s photographs of the city’s gaming spots depict a world of escapism fami…
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Philips Hue Go table lamp review: battery-powered smart light for indoors or out
Rechargeable, water-resistant lamp you can pick up and take into the garden The lates…
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‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR
Alexandru Iftimie received apology from tech giant after investigating data behind his…
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Elon Musk hates journalists but journalists love Twitter. Where does that leave us? | John Naughton
The billionaire’s hamfisted handling of his new toy won’t much matter as long as polit…
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Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker
Tesla and Twitter boss said to be bringing together team, weeks after co-signing lette…
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‘It’s tough for parents’: should young children have their own phone?
Debate bubbles over how to navigate setting limits as UK study shows fifth of three- a…
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Pentagon leaks: how Discord video game chat platform landed in the spotlight
Users explain the way top-secret documents were able slowly to spread across the inter…
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Silicon valediction? Our road trip to tech industry hotspots as the sector cools
Tables may have freed up at Silicon Valley’s Coupa Cafe, but ‘scalability’ is still on…
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My son is moving out – but we had time to play one last game | Dominik Diamond
What better final bonding experience than a video game about a prison break before hea…
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As a presenter I can tell you, TV news needs a human touch. This AI newsreader won’t give you that | Simon McCoy
They may be cheaper and less trouble, but they’ll never have the gravitas, the engagem…
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Pushing Buttons: The Super Mario Bros Movie is just fine – but what else did you expect?
In this week’s newsletter: After decades of offensively terrible video game adaptation…
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Best podcasts of the week: Jon Ronson and the ex-debutante who turned neo-Nazi – and then informant
In this week’s newsletter: The master storyteller investigates Carol Howe’s extraordin…
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Sonos Era 300 review: sparkling wifi hi-fi raises bar for spatial audio
Powerful speaker with quality sound shows how to do immersive music right, if you can …
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Elon Musk says Twitter at ‘roughly break-even’ after ‘quite painful’ ownership – business live
Twitter owner says ‘constant criticism and attack’ has been ‘rough’, but that company …
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‘We have to move fast’: US looks to establish rules for artificial intelligence
The commerce department has requested public comment on AI accountability measures to …
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As the west tries to limit TikTok’s reach, what about China’s other apps?
With government concerns over national security growing, Beijing’s influence over plat…
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Is artificial intelligence getting out of control? – podcast
Hundreds of tech industry leaders have signed a letter proposing a six-month pause on …
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Bitcoin price rises above $30,000 for first time since June 2022
Cyptocurrency’s steady increase in value reignites fears of widespread market manipula…
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The Super Mario Bros Movie breaks opening weekend records
Families flock in over Easter despite poor reviews, helping Mario collect more than £3…
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Garmin Forerunner 265 review: runner’s best friend gets screen upgrade
Brighter, crisper touchscreen and week-long battery life prove potent combination, but…
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EA Sports PGA Tour 2023 review – serious players have much to master in EA’s return to the virtual fairway
Electronic Arts; PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S The controls can be tough to get the hang of…
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‘I’m terrified’: what does AI Tom Brady mean for the future of media?
The hosts of the Dudesy podcast were shocked when their robot companion created an hou…
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Cybercrime: be careful what you tell your chatbot helper…
Alluring and useful they may be, but the AI interfaces’ potential as gateways for frau…
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