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Millions of Americans are turning to AI for election information, but chatbots are getting voting facts wrong and recommending candidates, raising concerns they could influence voters' decisions.
Read moreA suspected cyber-attack targeting fridges and freezers in European supermarkets forced stores to throw away huge quantities of food and stock in an incident that echoed a similar hacking attack in France last month
Read moreDozens of shops across European countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their fridges.
Read moreLetters: Jane Rosenthal and Siobhan McGovern respond to an article advocating for the death of email signoffs
Read morePatroclo and Achille’s interspecies affair sheds new light on social and sexual relations between animals, scientists say
Read moreI thought the explanation I’d given about black holes was family-friendly; but after what she had said, I had to rethink my examples
Read moreBolema Bossio Wangi, father of the young man killed on October 23 during the racist attack in Yvelines, hoped on Monday that the national tribute which will be paid to the victims would be "the occasion of a real…
Read moreThe new words that end up a part of everyday speech can tell us a lot about the zeitgeist. In a world changing faster than ever, we need to coin some more, writes Emma Beddington
Read moreCasserole dishes, electric heaters and silk shirts: your autumnal favourites show you’re hunkering down – with one eye on party season • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Autumn, we’ve been expecting you. After a September that seemed to miss the memo about changing seasons, October made up for it with serial storms and nights that drew in faster than you could say “fall back”. Time to hunker down and, whisper it, even put the heating on – or at least fire up an electric heater if you’re still holding out on the radiators. But while you were drawn to the indoor pleasur
Read moreExclusive: Gap between NHS claim and trusts’ comments described as ‘very misleading’ by senior health official More than two dozen hospital trusts the NHS claims have benefited from Palantir’s medical data platform are not using all or most of the AI-powered technology, the Guardian can reveal. The 29 hospital trusts that NHS England publicly lists as “realising benefits” from the controversial £330m federated data platform (FDP) have said the system is not live or they are not using any of its applications. The apparent gap between the NHS claim and the trusts’ understanding was described as
Read moreDeployments of surveillance vans over five months resulted in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts. WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations. Continue reading...
Read moreOil prices sank more than four percent Monday as a report that Donald Trump wanted to negotiate with Iran raised hope of ending the Middle East war, as the US president prepared for pivotal midterm elections.…
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