Category: Technology
David Beckham urges World Economic Forum to fight for girls’ rights – business live
our story here – the highest reading for the UK ever. But PWC’s global chair Mohamed Kande, presenting the broader results, says that most international [more…]
The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground
The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used [more…]
Amazon makes ‘largest ever’ UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions
Amazon is to deploy nearly 150 electric heavy goods vehicles as well as piling packages on to trains and post-style trolleys in an effort to [more…]
Drones flying into jails in England and Wales are national security threat, says prisons watchdog
Drones have become a “threat to national security”, the prisons watchdog has said, after a surge in the amount of weapons and drugs flown into [more…]
Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments
Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers. In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks, [more…]
‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread [more…]
Judge halts attempt to retrieve £600m bitcoin wallet from Welsh dump
A computer expert’s decade-long battle to recover a £600m bitcoin fortune he says has been lost in a council dump has been halted by a [more…]
Brazil says Meta getting rid of factcheckers is ‘bad for democracy’
The decision by the social media giant Meta to end factchecking in the United States is “bad for democracy”, Brazil’s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio [more…]
‘Dispiriting’: factchecker reacts to Meta’s move to scrap role
The Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday his company, Meta, would be scrapping factcheckers in the US, accusing them of making biased decisions and [more…]
British AI startup with government ties is developing tech for military drones
A company that has worked closely with the UK government on artificial intelligence safety, the NHS and education is also developing AI for military drones. [more…]
