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Meeting the pope’s call to put humanity first in a world of artificial intelligence | Letter

Dr Susan Oman on a campaign that is designed to raise public awareness of AIYour editorial on Pope Leo XIV’s call to centre human dignity in AI debate makes an important argument (The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first, 25 May). While governments, […]

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So dumb it just might work: can these dumbphone evangelists convince you to dump smartphones?

As part of a growing anti-tech movement, startup dumb.co is pushing flip phones as a way for young people to find ‘social and spiritual freedom’“They aren’t as dumb as they look,” our facilitator said, referring to the dark gray flip phone in his hand. He just as easily could have been talking about us, the

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Irish datacentres have increased household bills by hundreds of euros, report finds

Growing fleet of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricityEnergy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a new report.The centres have “drained” €715m (£620m) from the Irish economy and increased household bills by a

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Oura launches Ring 5, world’s smallest smart ring, as it heads towards IPO

Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bnStylish Finnish-American smart ring company Oura may be the darling of wearables, adorning the fingers of celebrities and sportspeople, but it is not resting on its laurels as it heads towards an IPO later this year. This week

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Google employee charged with using insider data to rig bets on Polymarket

US DoJ alleges software engineer Michele Spagnuolo, 36, earned $1.2m betting on Google’s most-searched listThe US justice department has charged a Google software engineer with using insider information to rig bets tied to Google’s most-searched list on prediction market Polymarket, earning $1.2m in profits, according to a complaint unsealed on Wednesday.Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian

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‘Instagram truly is the new LinkedIn’: why gen Z is using social media to get hired

In this competitive market, gen Z has started to turn to untraditional ways to land a job – including dating appsSibusisiwe Khupe, 26, entered the job market once again in September after a wave of unexpected layoffs at London marketing agency Wieden+Kennedy.She knew landing her next full-time role was not going to be easy. Young

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Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate

Perplexity AI’s research team reimplemented their Unigram tokenizer from scratch in Rust and open-sourced the code in pplx-garden, their inference technology repository. At production input lengths, the new encoder cuts p50 latency by roughly 5x versus the Hugging Face tokenizers crate, ~2x versus SentencePiece (C++), and ~1.5x versus IREE’s tokenizer (C), with zero steady-state heap

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A Coding Guide to Implement a pgvector-Powered Semantic, Hybrid, Sparse, and Quantized Vector Search System

In this tutorial, we build a complete pgvector playground inside Google Colab and explore how PostgreSQL can work as a powerful vector database for modern AI applications. We start by installing PostgreSQL, compiling the pgvector extension, connecting through Psycopg, and registering vector types for smooth Python integration. Then, we create embeddings with SentenceTransformers, store them

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Studio Display XDR review: Apple’s pro display shines very brightly

Crisp 27in 5K Mac monitor is packed with features and some of the best HDR performance you can get for work or playApple’s new 27in Studio Display XDR is its best monitor yet, with an exceptionally bright and gorgeous 5K screen that wants to be the pro display for Mac-wielding content creators everywhere, with a

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Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment? – podcast

Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have got people wondering whether robots are about to enter our everyday lives, just as chatbots have. And the country leading the charge is China, where

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