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Think before you click – and three other ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint | Koren Helbig18:28 The invisible downside to our online lives is the data stored at giant energy-guzzling datacentres It’s been called “the largest coal-powered machine on Earth ” – and most of us use it countless times a day. The internet and its associated digital industry are estimated to produce about the same emissions annually as aviation . But we barely think about pollution while snapping 16 duplicate photo… Google remains focused on its long quest for your eyeballs16:20 AI Overviews, announced this week, are the culmination of a long line of products dedicated to keeping you on Google.com Google announced this week that it would begin the international rollout of its new artificial intelligence-powered search feature, called AI Overviews. When billions of people search a range of topics from news to recipes to general knowledge questions, what they see first will now be an AI-generated summary. Google touted AI Overviews at its annual I/O developer conference … ‘It’s very hard to get spare parts’: London museum ‘retires’ treasure-trove gallery of household gadgets16:20 Science Museum’s Secret Life of the Home collection, including tea-making machines, early microwave cookers, gramophones and the first flushing toilets will close on 2 June They changed our parents’ and grandparents’ lives by using technology to tackle the curse of household drudgery. Thanks to the vacuum cleaner, fridge, washing machine and microwave, the lives of householders were transformed i… Spam, junk … slop? The latest wave of AI behind the ‘zombie internet’15:16 Tech experts hope new term for carelessly automated AI webpages and images can illuminate its damaging impact Your email inbox is full of spam. Your letterbox is full of junk mail. Now, your web browser has its own affliction: slop. “Slop” is what you get when you shove artificial intelligence-generated material up on the web for anyone to view. Continue reading... How a smear campaign against NPR led Elon Musk to feud with Signal18.května Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad People For nearly two weeks, an esoteric debate has raged on X, formerly Twitter: could users concerned about privacy and security trust the messaging app Signal, or was the Telegram platform a better alternative? X’s chatbot, Grok AI, described the trending mom… ‘Personalising stuff that doesn’t matter’: the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app18.května The wellness project claims to help users make ‘smarter food choices’ based on ‘world-leading science’. But many scientists claim its fee-based services are no better than generic advice “Your body is unique, so is the food you need.” This is the central credo of personalised nutrition (PN), as professed by its leading UK advocate, the health science company Zoe. Since its launch in April 2022, 1… OpenAI putting ‘shiny products’ above safety, says departing researcher18.května Jan Leike, a key safety researcher at firm behind ChatGPT, quit days after launch of its latest AI model, GPT-4o A former senior employee at OpenAI has said the company behind ChatGPT is prioritising “shiny products” over safety, revealing that he quit after a disagreement over key aims reached “breaking point”. Jan Leike was a key safety researcher at OpenAI as its co-head of superalignment, ens… As the AI world gathers in Seoul, can an accelerating industry balance progress against safety?18.května Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come This week, artificial intelligence caught up with the future – or at least Hollywood’s idea of it from a decade ago. “It feels like AI from the movies,” wrote the OpenAI chief executive , Sam Altman, of his latest system, an impressive virtual assistant . To underline his point he posted a single wo… How China is using AI news anchors to deliver its propaganda18.května News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible The news presenter has a deeply uncanny air as he delivers a partisan and pejorative message in Mandarin: Taiwan’s outgoing president, Tsai Ing-wen, is as effective as limp spinach, her period in office beset by economic under performance, social problems and protests. “Water … ‘We’re the peace activists’: my surreal, soul-sucking day at Palantir’s first AI warfare conference17.května America’s military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone On 7 and 8 May in Washington DC, the city’s biggest convention hall welcomed America’s military industrial complex, its top technology companies, and its most outspoken justifiers of war crimes. Of course, that’s not how they would describe it. It was the inau… Pushing Buttons: Big studios are making big cuts – but indie gems like Animal Well are still out there17.května A wave of innovative indie games bring a sense of optimism to an industry in urgent need of a confidence boost • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s a deeply unhappy time for game developers, as anyone paying attention to the games industry this year will know. Thousands of jobs have fallen victim to corporate cost-cutting, as in-progress games have been cancelled… Lorelei and the Laser Eyes review – eerie visuals and a thrilling story16.května Annapurna Interactive; PC, Switch This compulsive atavistic mystery is told through bewildering yet tantalising non-linear narrative strands that the player must tease apart It is both a pleasure and a relief to discover that while the titans of the mainstream games industry are tearing themselves apart in their unquenchable thirst for shareholder value, there are still smaller companies out ther… iPad Pro M4 review: ludicrously good hardware that’s total overkill for most15.května Apple sets new standard in screen and power but Pro model verges away from consumer tablet needs Apple’s latest iPad Pro is thinner and lighter, and has a stupendous new OLED screen, plus oodles of power to do practically anything. But it is no longer just the super-premium iPad – it is also aiming to be an impressive tool for the creative industry. It still looks and acts like an iPad, ready to … ‘I don’t see the point of me without the politics’: video game writer Meghna Jayanth on the benefits of staying indie14.května After a less happy time attached to triple-A games, Jayanth has settled on smaller, freer developers – and is using that freedom to speak up for causes bigger companies would rather ignore Can a video game writer do her best work at the industry’s biggest scale? Well: Meghna Jayanth is fine where she is. Last year, with Outerloop Games, she released Thirsty Suitors , a fluorescent fusion of messy… Hades II’s audacious, invigorating spin on Greek myth makes it worth playing right now13.května Developer Supergiant Games has released its hotly anticipated sequel to 2020’s Hades in an early-access, unfinished state – but its powers are already godlike Time comes for us all, and in Hades II, even the gods are not spared its wrath. This epic Greek-mythology-themed action game is the first sequel by arthouse studio Supergiant Games, meaning it has the tough task of surpassing a progenitor t… |
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