Category: Technology
Indonesia blocks Apple iPhone 16 sales over lack of investment
Indonesia has prohibited the marketing and sale of the iPhone 16 model over Apple’s failure to meet local investment regulations, according to its industry ministry. [more…]
‘An existential threat’: anger over UK government plans to allow AI firms to scrape content
Ministers are facing a major backlash over plans that would allow artificial intelligence companies to scrape content from publishers and artists, amid claims that the [more…]
NHS in England to trial AI tool to predict risk of fatal heart disease
The NHS in England is to trial a “superhuman” artificial intelligence tool that predicts a patient’s risk of disease and dying early. The new technology, [more…]
Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning
Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, the actor Julianne Moore and the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke are among 10,500 signatories of a statement from the creative industries warning [more…]
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…]
