Category: Technology
Labour: changes to EV rules will have ‘negligible’ impact on UK emissions
Labour’s changes to electric vehicle (EV) rules in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs will have a negligible impact on emissions, the transport secretary has said. [more…]
Private Footage review – found-footage study of apartheid takes the split-screen route
Janaína Nagata’s documentary debut resembles a detective investigation. In 2018, the Brazilian film-maker chanced upon an old 16mm reel of what looked like a typical [more…]
Trump extends deadline for TikTok sale to non-Chinese buyer to avoid ban
Donald Trump said he will sign an executive order to extend the TikTok ban deadline. This is the second time the president will have delayed [more…]
Meta faces £1.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia
Meta faces a $2.4bn (£1.8bn) lawsuit accusing the Facebook owner of inflaming violence in Ethiopia after the Kenyan high court said a legal case against [more…]
Don’t weaken online safety laws for UK-US trade deal, campaigners urge
Child safety campaigners have warned the government against watering down landmark online laws as part of a UK-US trade deal, describing the prospect of a [more…]
On my radar: George the Poet’s cultural highlights
Born George Mpanga in north-west London in 1991, George the Poet is a spoken-word artist, author and podcast host. He studied politics, psychology and sociology [more…]
David Cronenberg says Brutalist AI controversy was a ‘campaign against’ the film by rival Oscar nominees
David Cronenberg has suggested the AI controversy over Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent in The Brutalist was an issue manufactured by the campaign of a rival [more…]
Women in business held back by mobile data’s cost in developing world – report
The cost of a mobile data package is all that is holding back many female entrepreneurs in developing countries, according to recent research. While social [more…]
The Thinking Game review – DeepMind study offers wide-lens view of our tech lords and AGI
If you don’t follow science news much, you may only be aware of Artificial Intelligence as a new-fangled thingy that somehow makes TikToks of kittens [more…]
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
As a child, Daveed Diggs and his schoolfriend William Hutson drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends Parliament, filled with gleaming [more…]
