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Esports teams, leagues and competitions are flourishing, but poor connectivity and rarity of Africa-based servers are hampering expansionOn a recent Sunday afternoon in an upmarket neighbourhood of Nairobi, Daniel Badu was rapidly pressing the screen of his mobile phone, headphones wrapped around his head, his elbows resting on a pillow.Badu and his four teammates in the Aura 233 team, all decked in black-and-yellow...
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The world’s richest man flexed his muscles to tank lawmakers’ first pass at a spending bill – will they fare better in round two?What is the debt ceiling?Using the power of the social media platform he owns and the threat of spending millions against Republicans in primaries, Elon Musk effectively tanked a bipartisan congressional spending bill that would have kept the government running.After their initial failure at...
WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress.
Craig Wright given one-year suspended sentence for breaching court order to stop suing bitcoin developersAn Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence after the high court in London ruled he was in contempt because he would not stop suing people.Mr Justice Mellor had already found that Craig Wright, 54, repeatedly lied about his...
A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright violated a court order preventing him from bringing lawsuits based on his spurious claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
Thousands of workers are striking, as picket lines formed outside seven Amazon distribution centers from New York to California Thursday morning.
Business applications powered by AI are revolutionizing customer experiences, accelerating the speed of business, and driving employee productivity. In fact, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 Global State of AI report, 89% of organizations believe AI and machine learning will help them grow revenue, boost operational efficiency, and improve customer experience. Take for…
One algorithm identified the five strongest notes in each drink more accurately than any one of a panel of expertsNotch up another win for artificial intelligence. Researchers have used the technology to predict the notes that waft off whisky and determine whether a dram was made in the US or Scotland.The work is a step towards automated systems that can predict the complex aroma of whisky from its molecular makeup....
Exclusive: Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respectedWriters, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms.In a joint statement, bodies representing thousands of creatives dismissed the proposal made...
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Digital twins of human organs are here. They’re set to transform medical treatment. Steven Niederer, a biomedical engineer at the Alan Turing Institute and Imperial College London, has a cardboard box filled with…
To wrap up 2024, this week on Uncanny Valley we talk about the tech products we most fear and love.
ICO says allowing advertisers to track digital ‘fingerprints’ will undermine consumers’ control over informationBusiness live – latest updatesBritain’s data protection regulator has labelled Google as “irresponsible” for allowing advertisers to track customers’ digital “fingerprints”, amid fears even privacy-conscious users will find the online monitoring technique difficult to block.The UK Information Commissioner’s...
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The vibes in the climate world this year have largely been … less than great. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit a new high, reaching 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024. This year is…
A healthy heart beats at a steady rate, between 60 and 100 times a minute. That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a replica of a real human one. The hearts, which previously sat on a shelf in a lab…
Using artificial intelligence to handle repetitive tasks and large data sets is no longer just the preserve of big corporate players. With AI now available as an affordable service, SMEs are freeing up their people to focus on more rewarding work“Admin is important,” says Kevin Fitzgerald, UK managing director of Employment Hero, a global employment management platform that uses AI to make life easier for SMEs. “But...
No system, human or digital, is perfect. But by using artificial intelligence to do a lot of the legwork, SMEs can limit the effects of unconscious bias and free up their people to find the ideal candidate for the jobArtificial intelligence is trained on real intelligence – in other words, content created by humans. Theoretically, if you want AI to spit out fiction, you train it on novels and if you want AI to write...
For startups and SMEs it can be notoriously difficult to anticipate how many people and in what roles they need to take on as they grow – but a new AI-powered HR platform is helping businesses forecast their needs and find the right candidates at the right timeImagine the future of HR. You get a message on your phone. It says that, as a result of a recent organisational reshuffle, you’re going to need to hire someone...
Ingenious puzzle games, a psychedelic take on poker, an action-packed take on Buddhist legend and a compilation of 50 faux-retro titles – our critics pick the year’s finest• More on the best culture of 2024PC It starts with a single machine: a landing pod on an untouched planet. Then a drill, built with iron mined by your own hand. Hours later, the planet is covered in neat (or not) arrays of extractors and conveyor...
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