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Google launches Bard chatbot amid ‘misleading or false information’ fears
Google has admitted its Bard chatbot can still give “misleading or false information” as it launched the artificial intelligence (AI) engine to the public.
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Resident Evil 4 review - a lavish remake of a horror classic that is still to be bettered
Resident Evil 4 is nothing if not flexible. Since its original release in 2005, Leon S Kennedy’s gruesome foray into a macabre, parasite-infected European village has bounced its way to different consoles, incorporated light-gun esque motion controls, had a HD touch-up, been on mobile phones and gone all virtual reality. Now, though, is the first time that it has had the full-on remake treatment that seems so hot right now.
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Amazon to lay off another 9,000 staff
Amazon is cutting another 9,000 jobs in its second round of deep layoffs this year. Chief executive Andy Jassy announced the redundancies in a company-wide note to employees on Monday, saying: “I’m writing to share that we intend to eliminate about 9,000 more positions in the next few weeks.” Mr Jassy said the cuts were necessary to reflect the “uncertain economy in which we reside”.
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From juicy perks to firings on Twitter, the tech bubble is close to bursting
The timing could hardly have been worse. Jeremy Hunt was due to deliver his “Budget for Growth” in four days’ time. But instead of spending the weekend putting the final touches to his sums and speech, the Chancellor and his team were instead embroiled in a frantic 48-hour attempt to save the UK arm of a bank most people had never heard of.
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No hope of UK rocket launch until 2024 after Virgin Orbit failure
Britain has little hope of hosting a successful orbital rocket mission this year, space officials have admitted, after the failure of Virgin Orbit's "Start Me Up" satellite launch in January.
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The London-educated executive fighting for TikTok’s life
One of Shou Zi Chew’s pieces of life advice is to do things that make you uncomfortable.
The TelegraphThe next challenge for ChatGPT? To save the NHS
Which patient has not consulted Dr Google? Indeed, which doctor, baffled by symptoms or keen just to confirm a hunch, has not turned on occasion to the internet? Today, however, a new technology is going further than hazy diagnosis, proving capable of analysing complex individual patient histories to suggest treatment plans as sophisticated as those of an expert medic. Ask nicely and it will even ditch the jargon and boil its recommendations down into a useful summary. For free. Turns out there
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What is ChatGPT-4 and how is it different to the first one?
Typical, isn’t it? You wait thousands of years for a revolutionary piece of AI software and then two come along at once.
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Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse shows going public was right move, says Deliveroo boss
Deliveroo’s boss has said the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank shows it was right to go public despite the takeaway app’s value dropping 80 per cent since its IPO.
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ChatGPT posed as blind person to pass online anti-bot test
The newest version of ChatGPT tricked an unwitting human into doing online tasks for it by posing as a blind person.
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Binance suspends sterling transfers following crypto crackdown
British customers of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange face being unable to withdraw their money from the platform within months.
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Final Fantasy 16 hands-on: Yoshida looking for an action-packed break out from series 'stagnation'
It’s pretty safe to assume that after 15 main entries, any game series would start to stagnate. Games have evolved massively since the first Final Fantasy was released in 1987 and as Square Enix approach the release of Final Fantasy XVI in 2023, it knows it is time to change.
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Why TikTok must act if it wants to survive
Judging by the TikTok usage of certain MPs, you would never imagine that the Chinese-owned app is at the centre of a geopolitical battle, regarded as a growing danger to national security by intelligence agencies and policymakers across the Western world. The Business and Energy Secretary Grant Shapps posts videos direct from the National Grid Control Centre; Jeremy Corbyn uploads his Commons speeches and Luke Evans, Conservative MP for Bosworth, has taken his 41,000 followers on a guided tour o
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How Britain ceased to be a computing superpower
Britain has fallen behind Russia and China in the global supercomputing race and has a short window to catch-up, the Government has been warned.
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Twitter hit by biggest malfunction since Musk deal
Twitter suffered its biggest malfunction since being bought by Elon Musk on Monday night after an internal change caused pictures and links on the social media site to stop working.
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Pro-Russia propaganda or mindless shoot-’em-up? The Atomic Heart controversy, explained
I’m on top of the world looking down on a pixillated workers’s paradise. Monorails twinkle, suspension bridges shimmer, drones whirr like dystopian worker bees. A statue looms through the clouds: a huge vengeful woman with a sword high in one hand, a giant atom cradled in the other. “We are now flying over the majestic Call of the Motherland monument – erected in 1949 to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II,” says a soothing female voice.
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Sixties nuclear lab to test quantum computer that runs at -270 degrees celsius
A 1960s nuclear research lab in the North of England will host a new quantum computing facility under plans drawn up by a Silicon Valley technology company.
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Elon Musk's bid to implant microchips in human brains rejected over safety concerns
Elon Musk's attempt to implant microchips into human brains has been rejected by US medical regulators over concerns about the safety of the technology.
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Ministry of Defence hires sci-fi authors to dream up wars of the future
Science fiction writers have been enlisted by the Ministry of Defence to help officials imagine what wars of the future will look like.
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Could the West ban TikTok for good?
When Lucy Hitchcock’s fledgling business finally started gaining momentum, she decided to post a celebratory video on TikTok.
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Kirby's Return to Dream Land review - a colourful essential for the younger gamer
In the grey days of February, it can be hard to keep cheerful. Even harder if you’re a gamer. At the moment the entire gaming world is glued to the likes of The Last Of Us, a grisly post-apocalyptic drama based on the acclaimed PlayStation game, or yakking on about God Of War, the grisly fantasy drama released before Christmas. Given how miserable February is anyway, I have decided to excuse myself from the world of grown-up gaming, and instead have been bouncing through the brightly coloured Dr
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Metroid Prime Remastered review - a cracking upgrade of a sci-fi classic
Of Metroid Prime’s many strengths, few games have been able to recreate its sense of otherworldy mystery and hostility. As Samus Aran stepping onto the surface of Tallon IV, everything feels threateningly alien but deeply enticing; skittering, violent creatures, monolithic structures and glowing, tentacular fauna creeping up unreachable climbs. Unreachable for now, at least.
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Ruling in Google’s US Supreme Court case could change the nature of the internet
Google could be forced to take responsibility for videos that YouTube recommends to its users if a landmark legal challenge against the internet giant succeeds in America’s top court.
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JP Morgan cracks down on traders’ use of ChatGPT
JP Morgan has restricted traders' use of ChatGPT as employers grow increasingly nervous over sensitive data being exposed.
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Facebook funding dilemma drags Mark Zuckerberg back into the real world
Mark Zuckerberg spent Facebook’s early days fending off claims that he stole the idea from his Harvard classmates. More recently he has become far more comfortable taking inspiration from elsewhere.
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Britain aims to get quantum computing ‘by 2030’ with record investment
A pair of university professors have secured the biggest ever investment for a British quantum computing company amid a global race to master the high-powered devices.