Category: Technology
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum review – glory and geekery
You’ll need a pretty high geek tolerance level for this very detailed and specialised account of Sir Clive Sinclair’s bestselling ZX Spectrum home computer, whose [more…]
‘I’m empowering my song to go and make love with different people’: Imogen Heap on how her AI twin will rewrite pop
It’s a very Imogen Heap way to say hello: “I’ve got to show you this thing – it’s going to change your life!” She beams [more…]
Political paws for thought | Brief letters
A few years ago, we met a beautiful and unusually marked cockapoo on a beach in Cornwall. On seeing my husband’s “Nurses not nukes” T-shirt, [more…]
Brazil lifts ban on X after Elon Musk complies with court demands
Brazilians are set to regain access to X after a supreme court judge lifted a ban introduced nearly six weeks ago as a result of [more…]
More than 9,000 scam Facebook pages deleted after Australians lose $43.4m to celebrity deepfakes
Australians could see fewer deepfake images of celebrities being hauled off in handcuffs, or promoting a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment on Facebook, after Meta launched a [more…]
South Sudan medics trial AI app to identify snakes and improve bite treatment
The race to treat snakebite patients in time to save them could be eased by the development of software powered by artificial intelligence. The medical [more…]
Firm disclosed phone data of shot Tanzanian politician, UK tribunal hears
Gunmen tried to assassinate a Tanzanian opposition politician after a telecoms company secretly passed his mobile phone data to the government, according to evidence heard [more…]
Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X
Elon Musk fought the law. The law appears to have won. X, Musk’s social media platform, has backed down in its fight with the Brazilian [more…]
Why reaction to Lionsgate’s AI film deal reminds me of the Campaign for Real Ale | Peter Bradshaw
A shiver of unease, combined with a strangely defeated shrug, is how the news that entertainment behemoth Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial [more…]
Brazil top judge accuses X of ‘willful’ circumvention of court-ordered block
In the latest round of the dispute between Elon Musk and Brazil’s top court, a senior judge has accused X of a “willful, illegal and [more…]
