Foxes have begun to dig burrows' in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King's Cross headquartersIt is intended to be an ultra-modern central London office that will serve Google for decades, but the new 1bn headquarters is beset by one of humanity's oldest-known menaces: foxes.The vulpines have taken over the rooftop garden of the new landscraper" in King's Cross and had an impact on construction - although the company stressed it was minimal". Continue reading...
Pretty devastating' Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligenceApple researchers have found fundamental limitations" in cutting-edge artificial intelligence models, in a paper raising doubts about the technology industry's race to develop ever more powerful systems.Apple said in a paper published at the weekend that large reasoning models (LRMs) - an advanced form of AI - faced a complete accuracy collapse" when presented with highly complex problems. Continue reading...
by Robert Booth UK technology correspondent on (#6XVNY)
Photography agency alleges Stability AI trained its image generation model on archive of copyrighted picturesA London-based artificial intelligence company, Stability AI, has claimed that a copyright case brought by the global photography agency Getty Images represents an overt threat" to the generative AI industry.Getty's case against Stability AI for copyright and trademark infringement relating to its vast photography archives reached the high court in London on Monday. Continue reading...
Parents who lost children to online harms helped draft the bill - then watched it collapse under political pressureBereaved parents saw their hopes for change dashed after a bill meant to protect children from sexual predators and drug dealers online died in the Colorado state legislature last month.Several of those parents had helped shape the bill, including Lori Schott, whose 18-year-old daughter Annalee died by suicide in 2020 after consuming content on TikTok and Instagram about depression, anxiety and suicide. Continue reading...
Officials are piloting package of AI tools called Humphrey - named after character in TV sitcom Yes, MinisterAll civil servants in England and Wales will get practical training in how to use artificial intelligence to speed up their work from this autumn, the Guardian has learned.More than 400,000 civil servants will be informed of the training on Monday afternoon, which is part of a drive by the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, to overhaul the civil service and improve its productivity. Continue reading...
The new ROG Xbox Ally handheld games machines will be available at the end of the year - here's what it's like to play on oneJust a few days after Nintendo finally released its follow-up to the Switch, Microsoft has announced its own long-rumoured handheld console: the Xbox Ally. This is a very big deal, not just because it marks the first time Xbox has co-branded a console (with high-end PC specialists Republic of Gamers), but because it's packing top-of-the-line hardware under its hood. I played the Xbox Ally X, one of two models coming before Christmas, a few hours after they were revealed during 8 June's Xbox Showcase, and can easily see it becoming a serious competitor for both the Switch 2 and Valve's Steam Deck.The Xbox Ally springs from the coupling of four different tech firms: Windows, Xbox, AMD and Asus, and it's definitely their golden child. Both the Xbox Ally and Ally X models have 7-inch 1080p touchscreens, with 16GB of RAM in the Ally and 24GB of RAM in the Ally X, and 512GB SSD storage and 1TB, respectively. Each has Ryzen Z2 chips, though Xbox Ally X has the AI Z2 chip, which integrates an AI processor directly into the silicon. As for what that actually means for players, Microsoft's head of gaming devices, Roanne Sones, said during a presentation that players will be able to take advantage of AI experiences without having to compromise anything on the GPU". The devices both run Windows, but the team has modified it for optimal gaming. Continue reading...
Ofcom considering the concerns' raised after claim that up to 90% of risk assessments will be carried out by AIInternet safety campaigners have urged the UK's communications watchdog to limit the use of artificial intelligence in crucial risk assessments after a report that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta was planning to automate checks.Ofcom said it was considering the concerns" raised by the campaigners' letter, after a report last month that up to 90% of all risk assessments at the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp would soon be carried out by AI. Continue reading...
Suspension comes as 13m students take four-day gaokao tests for limited spots at country's universitiesBig Chinese tech companies appear to have turned off some AI functions to prevent cheating during the country's highly competitive university entrance exams.More than 13.3 million students are sitting the four-day gaokao exams, which began on Saturday and determine if and where students can secure a limited place at university. Continue reading...
With number of young girls sharing videos rising, study says following instructions can irritate skin and lead to allergiesSkincare regimes demonstrated by young influencers on TikTok offer little to no benefit, researchers have found, adding that on the contrary they raise the risk of skin irritations and lifelong allergies in children.The team behind the study say there has been a rise in young girls sharing videos of complex skincare routines with moisturisers, toners, acne treatments and anti-ageing products. Continue reading...
by Mark Sweney Media business correspondent on (#6XVF4)
Film institute's report raises fears AI will eliminate junior roles in film, TV, video game and special effects industriesArtificial intelligence companies are plundering 130,000 film and TV scripts to train their models in a raid on copyrighted material that poses a direct threat" to the future of the UK screen sector, according to the British Film Institute.In a wide-ranging report analysing the benefits and threats posed by AI to the UK's film, TV, video game and visual special effects industries, the BFI also raises fears that automation will eliminate the entry-level jobs that bring in the next generation of workers. Continue reading...
We're obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequalityOne Saturday in the spring of 2021, a little achy after receiving our first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, my husband and I decided to stay in bed and click on the first thing suggested to us by our TV. It was WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, a documentary produced by Hulu about the New York startup WeWork's spectacular fall from grace. The film mostly chronicles the misdeeds of founder Adam Neumann, the surfer-dude dolt who turned a good idea - co-working spaces that lease small offices to tech startups - into a surreally overvalued conglomerate, before he made a mortifying attempt to take the company public that eventually ended in his forced resignation. As a consolation prize, Neumann infamously received a $1.7bn golden parachute.The WeWork cautionary tale is partly about slick marketing, which is what seems to have convinced its investors that it was a tech startup. Neumann tried to position WeWork as something much more than a real estate company: he borrowed the tech industry's idealistic language about changing the world but upped the ante, insisting that the company's sole mission was elevat[ing] the world's consciousness". Continue reading...
Musk isn't the first - or last - billionaire to pour big money into US electionsElon Musk said, very loudly and very publicly, what is usually the quiet part of the role of money in US politics.Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. Such ingratitude," he wrote on his X social media platform amid an ongoing feud with Donald Trump. Continue reading...
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Law expected to include safety and copyright issues but delay likely to raise concerns about ongoing lack of regulationProposals to regulate artificial intelligence have been delayed by at least a year as UK ministers plan a bumper bill to regulate the technology and its use of copyrighted material.Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, intends to introduce a comprehensive" AI bill in the next parliamentary session to address concerns about issues including safety and copyright. Continue reading...
A billionaire's vendetta has threatened to cut off the US from the ISS and complicate national defenseAfter a year of effusive praise and expressions of love for each other, Elon Musk and Donald Trump exploded their political partnership in dramatic fashion this week. The highly public split included, among other highlights, the world's richest person accusing the president of the United States of associating with a notorious sex offender. Trump said Musk had lost his mind".As Musk and Trump traded insults, each on his own social network, they also issued threats with tangible consequences. Trump suggested that he could cancel all of Musk's government contracts and subsidies - the best way to save money", he posted - a move that would have devastating consequences not only on the tech billionaire's companies but also on the federal agencies that have come to depend on them. Musk responded by announcing that he would begin decommissioning the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that Nasa relies on for transport missions, although he later reversed the decision. Continue reading...
One year on, Jonathan Haidt talks about the way his book changed the global conversation around children and digital devices - and explains how he handles his own teenagersJonathan Haidt is a man with a mission. You'll have to forgive the cliche, because it's literally true. The author of The Anxious Generation, an urgent warning about the effect of digital tech on young minds, is based at New York University's business school: I'm around all these corporate types and we're always talking about companies and their mission statements," he tells me. So, he decided to make one for himself. It was very simple: My mission is to use my research in moral psychology and that of others to help people better understand each other, and to help important social institutions work well.'"This is characteristic of Haidt: there's the risk that writing your own brand manifesto might seem a bit, well, pompous. What comes across instead is the nerd's desire to be as effective as possible, combined with the positive psychologist's love of self-improvement (one of his signature undergraduate courses is called Flourishing, which sets students homework such as catch and analyse 10 automatic thoughts"). Continue reading...
Electric carmaker sold 36% fewer cars year on year in May as it loses ground to China's BYD and other rivalsSales of new Tesla cars slumped by more than a third in the UK last month as the electric carmaker lost ground to China's BYD and other rivals, amid a political backlash against its billionaire boss, Elon Musk.Tesla sold 2,016 vehicles in the UK in May, down from 3,152 in May 2024 - a 36% drop, according to the monthly snapshot from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). Continue reading...
Fortunate timing and government hesitation allowed the Switch 2 to come out on time, but the headache isn't overNintendo fans across the US are breathing a sigh of relief as they tear apart the boxes housing their new Nintendo Switch 2 video game consoles. On-again, off-again trade tariffs implemented by Donald Trump, which precipitated pre-order delays from Nintendo, made the 5 June release date of the highly coveted hardware feel more like a hope than a certainty. A potential price hike up from $450 loomed over launch day, but would-be buyers' fears did not come to fruition.Nintendo's maneuvering around Trump's tariffs isn't over, though - far from it. The Japanese console maker managed to luckily launch its device squarely within a 90-day tariff pause issued by the president. If tariffs on countries such as India and Japan return to the levels proposed during Trump's liberation day" speech at the start of April, however, experts say Nintendo will have to limber up for yet another delicate trade policy dance. Continue reading...
Tech firm is building humanoid park' in US to try out robots, which could spring out' of its vansAmazon is reportedly developing software for humanoid robots that could perform the role of delivery workers and spring out" of its vans.The $2tn (1.47tn) technology company is building a humanoid park" in the US to test the robots, said the tech news site the Information, citing a person who had been involved in the project. Continue reading...
It's the first major console launch in five years, so is it worth forking out for? From new tech to add-ons, our guide will help you decideSince its announcement in January, anticipation has been building for the Nintendo Switch 2 - the followup to the gaming titan's most successful home console, the 150m-selling Nintendo Switch. Major console launches are rarer than they used to be; this is the first since 2020, when Sony's PlayStation 5 hit shelves. Whether you're weighing up a purchase or just wondering what all the fuss is about, here's everything you need to know. Continue reading...
Latest spat appears to stem from fight between president's sons and Bill Zanker, longtime Trump business partnerA splashy website featuring an illustration of Donald Trump, looking buff and pumping his fist in the air, appeared online on Tuesday. The image is the logo of one of Trump's digital currencies, and the website claims to be the Official $Trump Wallet", hawking a product that would allow customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, primarily the president's own.The website prominently features the name of Trump's coin, $Trump, and invites people to join the waitlist to use the digital wallet. It was first noticed by the crypto newsletter Citation Needed. Magic Eden, an established cryptocurrency marketplace, said on the website that it had partnered with Trump's official digital coin team to create the wallet. The Twitter/X account for one of Trump's cryptocurrencies promoted the wallet product as well. Continue reading...
by Eleni Courea Political correspondent on (#6XQZX)
Government suffers fifth defeat in House of Lords over plans to allow AI companies to use copyrighted materialDefiant peers have delivered an ultimatum to the government - calling on it to offer artists copyright protection against artificial intelligence companies or risk losing a key piece of legislation.The government suffered a fifth defeat in the House of Lords over controversial plans to allow the AI companies to train their models using copyrighted material. Continue reading...
Social media platform claims firm used bots to access content, without requesting consent, to train ClaudeThe social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally scraping" the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access the social network's content despite being asked not to do so, and intentionally trained on the personal data of Reddit users without ever requesting their consent". Continue reading...
MPs on Treasury committee hear that those affected were being contacted and would face no financial loss'HM Revenue and Customs has lost 47m after a phishing scam breached tens of thousands of tax accounts, a group of MPs has heard.Two senior civil servants at the tax authority told the Treasury committee on Wednesday that 100,000 people had been contacted, or were in the process of being contacted, after their accounts were locked down in what the officials said was an organised crime" incident that began last year. Continue reading...
The long-trailed console offers sturdier hardware, improved graphics and seamless online functionality. But it's more of an update than a revolutionLaunch week is finally here, and though I would love to be bringing you a proper review of the Nintendo Switch 2 right now, I still don't have one at the time of writing. In its wisdom, Nintendo has decided not to send review units out until the day before release, so as you read this I will be standing impatiently by the door like a dog anxiously awaiting its owner.I have played the console, though, for a whole day at Nintendo's offices, so I can give you some first impressions. Hardware-wise, it is the upgrade of my dreams: sturdier JoyCons, a beautiful screen, the graphical muscle to make games look as good as I want them to in 2025 (though still not comparable to the high-end PlayStation 5 Pro or a modern gaming PC). I like the understated pops of colour on the controllers, the refined menu with its soothing chimes and blips. Game sharing, online functionality and other basic stuff is frictionless now. I love that Nintendo Switch Online is so reasonably priced, at 18 a year, as opposed to about the same per month for comparable gaming services, and it gives me access to a treasure trove of Nintendo games from decades past. Continue reading...
by Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor on (#6XQZB)
A hacked or compromised account can be a nightmare. But with these tips, it need not be the end of the worldEmail accounts have become more than a longstanding method of communication, morphing into the centre of your digital world as the user login for hundreds of services from shopping to socials. So when you forget your password, your email gets stolen or hacked, it can be a total nightmare.Here's what to do if the worst happens. Quickly taking these steps can help get you back into your email and safeguard the many other accounts linked to it.Try to change your password from a device that's already logged in.Use a familiar device in a familiar location that you have frequently used your email account from before, such as your computer or a phone on your home wifi. Use the same browser you usually would if you have more than one installed.Use account recovery process for provider, such as Google or Microsoft, and access your account through your recovery email or phone if you have one.Answer all the recovery questions to the best of your ability, including any old passwords you might remember, even if you only know part of the answer. Google and Microsoft have tips you can follow. It may take up to 24 hours for you to be verified to recover your account.If all else fails, set up a new email account so that you can quickly migrate your logins for various sites and services to one you can control.Set a new, strong password that is unique for your email account. The password should be at least 12 characters, but the longer the better. Use a combination of alphanumeric and special characters. Some tips include using a combination of random words, a memorable lyric or quote, and avoid simple or guessable combinations. Use a password manager to help you remember it and other important details.Set up two-step verification using a code-generating app, rather than SMS text messages. Make sure you save your two-step backup codes somewhere safe.Use a passkey rather than a password, which uses your device and biometrics to authenticate you and cannot be hacked like a password.Set a recovery email and phone number to help get back into your account if you can't log in.Set up as many security questions as your account allows in settings and make them as difficult to guess as possible. Make sure you write the answers down somewhere safe. Continue reading...
by Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor on (#6XQXP)
Cut-down version of top Windows 11 AI notebook offers premium experience in smaller and less expensive packageMicrosoft's latest Surface Laptop is smaller and cheaper, managing to condense most of what is great about its larger siblings into a more compact frame without compromising too much on power.The Surface Laptop 13in joins the current seventh-generation Laptop 13.8in and 15in that were launched in the summer last year. It sits at the bottom of the premium pile in price, costing from 899 (1,099/$900/A$1,699), but above the Laptop Go 3, which is likely to be phased out.Screen: 13in LCD 1920 x 1280 (178 PPI)Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (8 core)RAM: 16GBStorage: 256 or 512GBOperating system: Windows 11 HomeCamera: 1080P front-facingConnectivity: wifi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, USB-A, 2xUSB-C (3.2), headphonesDimensions: 285.7 x 214.1 x 15.6mmWeight: 1.2kg Continue reading...
Older series from Vampire Diaries to Skins are among the most popular on the platform as decade enjoys a revivalIt is the social media platform that likes to see itself as being on the cutting edge of the latest youth culture and setting the latest trends for others to follow. But across music, television and observations on British daily life, something more familiar is trending on TikTok - a new generation of nostalgia.Music and TV from the 2000s are being rediscovered by gen X and ageing millennials, as well as being discovered for the first time by gen Z. Use of the #noughties nostalgia hashtag is up 36% on last year across entertainment content - while the era is also enjoying a revival in fashion. Continue reading...
Parent company Aylo criticizes requirement that adult website visitors must confirm age with credit card or ID documentFrench visitors to the adult sites Pornhub, Youporn and RedTube will on Wednesday be greeted with a message denouncing the country's age verification requirements, the company said on Tuesday.Parent company Aylo, in reaction to a French law requiring adult sites to take extra steps to verify that their users are 18 or older, will stop operating in France, a spokesperson said. Continue reading...
Firms defend security features after police tell committee 80,000 phones were stolen in London in 2024MPs have accused Apple and Google of profiting from multimillion-pound phone-snatching operations that police say are masterminded by organised crime gangs in Britain, Algeria and China.In 2024, 80,000 phone devices of all kinds were stolen in London alone, up a quarter from 64,000 in 2023. The devices had a street value of about 20m, and iPhones made up the majority. Continue reading...
Fraudsters use fake artists to juice royalties from streaming services - but real musicians are getting blamed. Might they be better off without Spotify et al?There is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services - and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage.Fraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple Music and the rest with AI-generated tracks, to try and hoover up the royalties generated by people listening to them. These tracks are cheap, quick and easy to make, with Deezer estimating in April that over 20,000 fully AI-created tracks - that's 18% of new tracks - were being ingested into its platform daily, almost double the number in January. The fraudsters often then use bots, AI or humans to endlessly listen to these fake songs and generate revenue, while others are exploiting upload services to get fake songs put on real artists' pages and siphon off royalties that way. Continue reading...
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Generative AI is reshaping the job market, and it's starting with entry-level rolesHello, and welcome to TechScape. This week, I'm wondering what my first jobs in journalism would have been like had generative AI been around. In other news: Elon Musk leaves a trail of chaos, and influencers are selling the text they fed to AI to make art.New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drugOne day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT': the workers who lost their jobs to AIUS lawyer sanctioned after being caught using ChatGPT for court brief Continue reading...
Part-interpreters, part-comedians, video jockeys translate and contextualise western movies for audiences at homeOn a recent Saturday afternoon in an informal settlement in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, dozens of young men sat on benches in a dark shack to watch a bootlegged version of the Hollywood comedy-horror film The Monkey.As the English-language action unfolded on the screen, a voiceover translation in the Bantu language Luganda by VJ Junior, one of Uganda's top video jockeys, boomed into the room. Continue reading...
Everyone might be talking about the new title from gaming's favourite plumber, but there's at least one other interesting original launching with the new console this weekThe interesting thing about console launches is that you never know what unexpected treasures will emerge from the first batch of games. Who could have foretold that the hero of the PlayStation launch would be a fireworks simulation (Fantavision), or that the most joyous title in the initial GameCube lineup would involve simians racing each other in giant transparent globes (Super Monkey Ball)?The latest example could well be Konami's Survival Kids, the only new third-party game in the Switch 2 opening wave. It's the latest in the publisher's cult series of tropical island survival sims, which began on the Game Boy Color and, despite never really attracting vast global success, continued on to the Nintendo DS under a new name, Lost in Blue. Now it's back as a familyfriendly co-op survival adventure, in which groups of up to four players are shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago, and must survive by gathering resources, crafting tools, finding food and exploring a series of lush, cartoonish environments. Four people can play online, but the game also supports Switch 2's game sharing, which lets one person who owns the game connect wirelessly with other consoles to play together. Continue reading...
He's spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive - and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast's videos simply very savvy clickbait - or acts of avant garde genius?Jimmy Donaldson, the 27-year-old online content creator and entrepreneur known as MrBeast, is by any reasonable metric one of the most popular entertainers on the planet. His YouTube channel, to which he posts his increasingly elaborate and expensively produced videos, has 400 million subscribers - more than the population of the United States of America and equivalent to the total number of native English speakers currently alive. It's close to twice as many subscribers as Elon Musk has X followers, and over 100 million more than Taylor Swift has Instagram followers. And that number, 400 million, does not account for the people who watch MrBeast's videos in passing, or who are aware of his cultural presence because of their children, or who just sort of know who he is but don't have any intricate awareness as to why he is famous.That number is the number of people who have made the volitional move of clicking that subscribe button, to ensure that they will a) not miss his latest videos and b) can be literally counted by potential advertisers as a more-or-less guaranteed audience. One last fact, before we move away from numbers and into more nebulous modes of consideration: his 2024 Amazon Prime reality competition show, Beast Games, in which 1,000 contestants competed for $5m (3.7m), the largest cash prize in television history, reportedlycost $100m to produce, making it the most expensive unscripted show in history. Jimmy Donaldson, at the risk of belabouring the obvious, isan incredibly big deal. Continue reading...
Richard Bednar apologized after Utah appeals court discovered false citations, including one nonexistent caseThe Utah court of appeals has sanctioned a lawyer after he was discovered to have used ChatGPT for a filing he made in which he referenced a nonexistent court case.Earlier this week, the Utah court of appeals made the decision to sanction Richard Bednar over claims that he filed a brief that included false citations. Continue reading...
From a radio host replaced by avatars to a comic artist whose drawings have been copied by Midjourney, how does it feel to be replaced by a bot?Mateusz Demski, 31, journalist, Krakow, Poland Continue reading...
Once rivalling film premieres for theatrics, could Smyths' revival of the midnight launch tap into a desire for shared real-world experience?There was a time when certain shops would resemble nightclubs at about midnight: a long queue of excitable people, some of them perhaps too young to be out that late, discussing the excitement that awaits inside.The sight of throngs of gamers looking to get their hands on the latest hardware when the clock strikes 12 is growing increasingly rare. But if you happen to walk by a Smyths toy shop at midnight on 4 June, you may encounter a blast from the past: excitable people, most in their teens or 20s, possibly discussing Mario Kart. Continue reading...
I used to mock my wife for spending hours playing the candy-sorting mobile games, now I'm up to my neck in fizzy bottles of shame. It's like Waiting for Godot with gummy bears instead of trampsAs long as I can remember, my wife has started each day with 30 minutes of a Candy Crush game. As long as she can remember, I have started each day by telling her it is pointless casual gamer cack. Now I write for the Guardian, I need to find a more eloquent way of putting that, so I thought I would have a go myself. I am begging you: do not do the same. Candy Crush Soda Saga nearly ruined me in a week.I like the game mechanics. As Oscar Wilde said, the man who doesn't love sliding stuff to form chains of three or more matching shapes does not love life itself. This one is wrapped in a cute candy veneer, all fizzy bottles and gummy bears. And that makes the visuals so alluring. When you slide a Colour Bomb into a Candy Fish all the candies that colour get Candyfished and your eyes are treated to a bazillion of them fizzing around the screen destroying everything, while the firm yet gentle haptic feedback makes it a multisensory burst of pure, effervescent joy. Continue reading...
Drivers using the navigation app confronted with mass of red dots indicating stop signsConfusion reigned on German autobahns and highways at the start of one of the busiest holiday breaks of the year on Thursday after Google Maps wrongly indicated that vast swathes of them were closed.People using the navigation service around major conurbations such as Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin on motorways between western, northern, south-western and central Germany were confronted with maps sprinkled with a mass of red dots indicating stop signs. The phenomenon also affected parts of Belgium and the Netherlands. Continue reading...
After I was turned into a memecoin, I looked into the hype behind the crypto that only a tiny percentage of people profit fromIn November last year, I was turned into a memecoin. Several, in fact.Someone alerted me that a memecoin called Dork Nerd Geek ($DNG) had been minted with a picture of my face, and it already had a market cap (the total value of all coins in circulation) of $29,000. Twenty minutes later it was $100,000. An hour later it was $800,000. Continue reading...
Artificial intelligence tool determines best candidates to take abiraterone, which can halve risk of death from diseaseDoctors have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict which men with prostate cancer will benefit from a drug that halves the risk of dying.Abiraterone has been described as a gamechanger" treatment for the disease, which is the most common form of cancer in men in more than 100 countries. It has already helped hundreds of thousands with advanced prostate cancer to live longer. Continue reading...
Party leader says he wants UK to be a crypto powerhouse' during speech at Las Vegas conferenceReform UK will accept donations through bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, Nigel Farage has announced.During an appearance at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, where he was introduced as a UK presidential candidate", Farage said: As of now, provided you are an eligible UK donor ... we are the first political party in Britain that can accept donations in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies." Continue reading...
Though the billionaire vowed modernization and efficiency, what's left is a trail of uncertainty and reduced functionalityElon Musk formally exited his role in the Trump administration on Wednesday night, ending a contentious and generally unpopular run as a senior adviser to the president and de facto head of the so-called department of government efficiency" (Doge). Though he promised efficiency and modernization, Musk leaves behind a trail of uncertainty and reduced functionality.The timing of Musk's departure lines up with the end of his 130-day term limit as a special government employee" but also plays a part in an effort by the billionaire to signal a wider shift away from Washington as he faces backlash from the public and shareholders. Musk has recently made a show of refocusing his efforts on his tech companies in interviews, saying that he has spent too much time focused on politics and plans to reduce his political spending in the future. Continue reading...
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