Musicians around the world have described artificial intelligence as a threat to creativity, but the CEO of one popular platform told AFP he thinks critics are looking at it all…
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Microsoft faces heat from US Congress over cybersecurity
Members of US Congress on Thursday pressed Microsoft to explain a “cascade of avoidable errors” that allowed a Chinese hacking group to breach emails of senior US officials. Microsoft President…
Four arrested in international cyber sweep
Authorities arrested four people and took down or disrupted more than 100 servers in the “largest ever” operation against botnets that deploy ransomware, Europol said Thursday. Dubbed Operation Endgame, the…
Christopher Nolan rebuilt Los Alamos ‘in secret’ for ‘Oppenheimer’
An entire town filled with nuclear laboratories, built from scratch in the remote mountains of New Mexico, with every single person involved sworn to secrecy? It is not just the…
Smartphone makers charge ahead to make better batteries
A smartphone that can be charged in fewer than 40 minutes. Even better: a tiny nuclear battery that could keep it running for 50 years. Facing consumers who are fed…
Renault wins Car of the Year, unveils new EV at Geneva auto show
Renault unveiled a new electric vehicle on Monday and its Scenic model won the Car of the Year award at the first Geneva auto show since 2019, giving a boost…
Fit at 40: The revolutionary Apple Mac in numbers
Forty years ago Steve Jobs revolutionised personal computing by launching the Apple Macintosh, the first PC with a user-friendly mouse and graphical interface that helped the machines enter the everyday…
Neptune and Uranus seen in true colours for first time
Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by UK astronomers reveals. Images from a space mission in the 1980s showed Neptune…
Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead
At a quiet cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son. They are words…