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Dyson, a maker of vacuum cleaners and air purifiers, will be reducing its UK workforce by more than a quarter by cutting around 1,000 jobs as…

At the World AI Conference held in Shanghai last week, SenseTime, one of China’s leading artificial intelligence companies, revealed its newest model, the SenseNova 5.5. The…

IIn 2006, I was fired from my job at EB Games. Looking back, it was a justified decision. One Sunday, I recorded myself leaping over piles…

circle What if AI isn’t as great as we thought? What if its potential has been exaggerated to the point of being dangerous? Leading cancer experts…

ohOn Sunday, The Observer published a sensitive article about video game addiction, interviewing therapists who work in the field and affected families. Real, compulsive, life-altering addiction,…

Meta maintains its stance against paying media companies for news in Australia, arguing that it does not address the issue of misinformation and disinformation on Facebook…

The latest Surface tablet from Microsoft is expected to bring significant improvements, moving beyond just being faster, quieter, and more efficient. The key change is the…

In Australia, Tesla battery owners may lose a profitable revenue stream due to restrictions placed by a U.S. energy company on local third-party transactions for their…

circleA live jazz band plays Mario Kart, Full Orchestra Sonic plays. But there's an entire subgenre of video game music artists, who are happy to describe…

A scammer calls and asks for a passcode, leaving Malcolm, an older man with a British accent, confused. “What business are you talking about?” Malcolm asks.…

JAmes Muldoon is a lecturer in management at the University of Essex, Mark Graham is a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute and Callum Cantt is…

debtMark Aitken has been working on a photo series in Lapland for the past two years. The Presence of Absence”The work explores the delicate, sometimes eerie,…

The All England Lawn Tennis Club has become the first to use artificial intelligence to protect Wimbledon players from online abuse. The AI-driven service monitors players’…

Justine Bateman won’t name names, but a TV showrunner friend once came to her with a dilemma: Their team was well into shooting the second season…

debtFacebook users of a certain age may remember a particularly lonely-looking farm animal that appeared in their feeds during the platform’s heyday. A lonely cow wandered…

I Traffic laws and courts leave no doubt as to what the big numbers in red circles mean, but as any quick drive on any city…

TThe notion that highly intelligent robots are extraterrestrial intruders “coming to steal our jobs” reveals significant flaws in our understanding of work, value, and intelligence itself.…

The rise of artificial intelligence has propelled the stock prices of major tech companies to new heights, but this growth has come at the expense of…

I I don’t often miss my teenage years, but I do miss the time I had to play video games. I used to get into games…

If a week is a long time in politics, five years between elections feels like an eternity in the UK. The political landscape has changed dramatically…

IIn 2002, a group of five Italians garnered local attention for their ambitious project. They aimed to develop games for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance, becoming the…

IAs a producer of a morning radio show, I spend countless hours scouring the internet for comedy treasures. I wish I could say that outside of…

Despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, Tesla’s global sales have declined for two consecutive quarters, indicating weakening demand for its products and electric vehicles in…

MaWhat I love most about Luigi’s Mansion are the little details: the way Mario’s timid little brother nervously hums along to the music as he stumbles…

circleWhether referred to as manifestos or contracts, the documents released by political parties before elections often lack substance despite their length. Filled with idealistic scenarios, vague…

During Nvidia’s annual meeting, Jensen Huang did not address the recent stock price decline. Despite briefly holding the title of the world’s most valuable company on…

Chinese internet companies have made a commitment to combat “extreme nationalism” online, specifically targeting anti-Japanese sentiment. This decision comes after a tragic incident in Suzhou, where…

TOny, who is in his 50s, recently did a quick calculation of how much time he’s spent watching porn in his life. “The results were horrifying,”…

According to the European Commission, Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, has breached the EU’s new digital law with its advertising strategy. This model involved charging users…

This is a crucial election year for the world, with misinformation swirling on social media as countries including the UK, US and France go to the…

Enjoy circle as you step through the door of This exhibition. The first sight that greets you is the PDP-10, a giant mainframe computer that programmed…

The Importance of Being an OscarMichael Mac Liamoir’s 1960 solo show intertwined the private and public life of Oscar Wilde with excerpts from the great Irish…

If you want evidence of Microsoft’s progress towards its environmental “moonshot” goals, look closer to Earth to a construction site on an industrial estate in west…

I I’m so grateful for my dual citizenship now. The horror of Scotland’s dismal performance at Euro 2024 was tempered by Canada’s heroic play in the…

Bill Gates argues that artificial intelligence will assist, not hinder, in achieving climate goals, despite concerns about new data centers depleting green energy supplies. The philanthropist…

According to court documents released on Friday, Tesla Inc. states that Elon Musk has emerged victorious in a legal battle over his $56 billion compensation package.…

Researchers at the University of Reading conducted a study where they secretly submitted exam answers generated by AI, tricking professors into giving higher grades than real…

The number of girls studying computing GCSEs in England has more than halved in less than a decade, leading to warnings about “male dominance in shaping…

TThe famously difficult dark fantasy epic Elden Ring is the second best-selling game in the world in 2022, and with the release of its expansion Shadow…

Amazon workers facing work-related injuries are resorting to online fundraising to cover expenses while they pursue compensation and disability benefits. Three current employees injured at Amazon’s…