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The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation
vMainstream conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominated...
Gliding, not searching: Here’s how to reset your view of ChatGPT to steer it to better results
ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, and people are using it to write articles and...
Can you trust AI? Here’s why you shouldn’t
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly,...
eNaira: Nigeria’s digital currency has had a slow start - what’s holding it back
Nigeria was the first country in Africa to roll out a central bank digital currency....
Turkiye, Qatar to launch joint investment for chip production
Turkiye and Qatar will launch a joint investment for semiconductor production, the...
AI might eventually be an extinction threat, but it poses more pressing risks
Since the AI chatbot ChatGPT was released in 2020, we’ve been hearing about the...
AI scam calls imitating familiar voices are a growing problem – here’s how they work
Scam calls using AI to mimic voices of people you might know are being used to exploit...
Putting a price on exoskeleton assistance puts users in the driver’s seat of honing the tech
My colleagues and I have used a tool from economics to measure the costs and benefits...
Meta’s Threads is surging, but mass migration from Twitter is likely to remain an uphill battle
Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users can see in a...
AI finds drugs that could fight ageing and age-related diseases
Finding new drugs – called “drug discovery” – is an expensive and time-consuming...
China’s gallium and germanium controls: what they mean and what could happen next
From August, China is to restrict exports of gallium and germanium, two critical...
Threads: new Twitter rival looks like a shrewd move but Meta lacks credibility
Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform, Threads, has been released in smartphone...
AI is an existential threat – just not the way you think
The rise of ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence systems has been accompanied...
Biting flies are attracted to blue traps – we used AI to work out why
Flies which feast on blood – such as tsetse and horse flies – inflict painful bites...
Facial recognition technology could soon be everywhere – here’s how to make it safer
The recent coronation of King Charles III was a high-profile example of when facial...
Batteries in electric vehicles have more mileage in city driving rather than highway driving
A Toyota Corolla with a 1.8L engine requires 6.2 litres of gas to drive for 100...