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How does live facial recognition work and how many UK police forces use it?

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Technology has been deployed since 2020 in London, leading to concerns over data privacy and racial biasAI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warnGuilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognitionThe Labour government thinks facial recognition technology is “the biggest breakthrough for catching criminals since DNA matching”. It wants all police […]

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AI chatbot fraud: the ‘gift card’ subcription that may cost you dear

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After subscribing to the Claude chatbot, mystery payments started to appear on one family’s credit card bill. They are not aloneDavid Duggan* was so impressed with the ability of the Claude chatbot to answer medical questions and organise family life, that a $20-a-month (£15) subscription seemed like money well spent.But then his wife spotted two

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‘Sick of swiping’: the dating event where your mates do the talking

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‘Date My Mate’ nights, which involve pitching a friend to a room of singles, are gaining momentum across the countryFor many young people, the dating game has been nothing but a thankless task of endless swiping and ghosting, with little hope of finding love.But as dating apps fall out of favour, and a relationship recession

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‘Temu Range Rover’: what the best-selling Jaecoo 7 says about China’s electric car ascendancy

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Loaded with extras and produced at a cut price, the crossover SUV has overtaken rival cars from US, Japanese and Korean firmsThe UK is no stranger to foreign cars. The bestseller lists in recent years have been dominated by the US’s Ford Puma, Japan’s Nissan Qashqai, Korea’s Kia Sportage and occasionally even Tesla’s Model Y.But

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AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

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Researchers say results mark a ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to hang up the scrubs?A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outperformed human doctors in high-pressure

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Stephen Fry sues tech conference organisers for £100,000 over fall from stage

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Actor and presenter broke his hip, right leg, pelvis and ribs when he gave a talk at CogX festival at O2 Arena in 2023Stephen Fry is suing two companies that organised a tech conference where he was injured in 2023 after falling off the stage, high court documents show.The actor and presenter broke his hip

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In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants | Rafael Behr

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Trump is volatile, capricious and unreasonable – but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manageDonald Trump is not impressed by soft power. He respects hard men with military muscle. But he can be moved by pageantry, which is the purpose of King Charles’s visit to

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If it feels like the world is rejecting science and truth, here are five ways to fight back | Helen Pearson

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All of us can choose to consider facts, not vibes, in our next decision. One simple hack is go and look up some easily accessible peer-reviewed studiesHelen Pearson is an editor for Nature and author of Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really WorksIn 1992, a group of rebel doctors published a radical idea in

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How AI job scams are destroying people’s hopes | Letters

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Sasha Cooklin, Darryl Dixon and Niall Leonard respond to an article by Victoria Turk about the boom in AI-driven fraud in recruitmentArtificial intelligence isn’t just being used by scammers to promise fake roles and trick job-seekers, it is becoming increasingly prevalent in responses and screening processes for real jobs (AI job scams are booming –

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‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?

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A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motivesShortly before Christmas 2022, Chakrit Sakunkrit, owner of the Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary on the Thai island of Koh Samui, invited 200 guests to spend a few days celebrating his 60th birthday. One sultry afternoon, Sakunkrit and a small group gathered

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