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The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is trying to introduce more search choices where Google has the tightest control: Android smartphones and the Chrome browser. The regulator has proposed allowing users to…
At its Connect conference on Wednesday, it is expected to show a pair without one. The company will unveil new glasses, including a camera-free model, amid growing concern about devices that can record people without…
Our experts have recommended nine books to strike teenagers and young adults’ interest in thinking politically. 1. Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman (2001) Bookshop/Oxford University Press Noughts and Crosses makes…
The Hunga volcano during a 2009 eruption. Credit: TELUSA FOTU Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major…
After Saddam became president in 1979, his cousin played him in The Long Days. The film dramatised his role in a failed 1959 attempt to assassinate Iraq’s then-prime minister, Abdul-Karim Qasim. The film presented the…
Studies have shown the biophilic connection we experience being surrounded by plants improves our mental state and may even slightly shorten hospital recovery rates. This connection has driven the desire for greenery…
What’s surprising, though, is where these tracks are succeeding. My research into YouTube discussions of AI music, explored in a chapter of a new book called Media Imaginaries , found a recurring view that AI was seen as…
Recent parliamentary scrutiny of critical public-sector AI contracts has highlighted growing pressure on institutions to strengthen control over AI operations and deployment continuity. Britain has focused on adoption…
Credit: imaginima The 2013 sci-fi blockbuster film Gravity , starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, popularized the notion of the Kessler syndrome. In the movie, Russia shoots down a defunct satellite and creates a…
It seemed like the obvious way to use a navigation app. That routine worked, but it also meant I was reacting to congestion instead of planning around it. The route was rarely the real problem. My timing was. After I…