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Can we electrify the world? Ambition takes centre stage in pre-Cop31 climate talks

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Apart from effort to electrify, there were geopolitical tensions around climate science and the 1.5C goalElectrifying the world – with electric vehicles, electric heating and cooling, and modernised heavy industry – could be the next biggest step towards phasing out fossil fuels, replacing the 80% of global energy that still comes from hydrocarbons. As using […]

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The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech | Taylor Lorenz

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Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerfulThis week, the UK announced a wide-ranging ban on social media that will soon block users from communicating or accessing information on apps such as X, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat unless

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Taliban order ban on smartphones as officials shown destroying devices

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Directive aimed at government workers, but reports of wider implementation spark warnings of future Afghanistan-wide prohibitionThe Taliban have ordered a sweeping ban on the use of smartphones by government officials – in what some analysts say could foreshadow broader, population-level restrictions.In a directive issued by the Taliban’s military courts and reviewed by the Guardian, the

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France to ditch AI data tools from Palantir for domestic provider

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Switch to ChapsVision announced by PM comes amid concern about reliance on US-controlled technologyFrance’s domestic intelligence service is to ditch AI data tools from the US tech giant Palantir in favour of a domestic provider in an effort to avoid “strategic dependency”, the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has said.“We must use our own AI models;

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How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’

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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s governor, squares off with state lawmakers over the facilities powering an AI boomA controversial haunted house near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taps into its dark history every fall to scare tens of thousands of visitors. In 1968, a local news station documented appalling conditions for disabled people in the red brick buildings on the

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Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth

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IPO mints Musk as world’s first trillionaire – now SpaceX is public, it will be harder than ever not to have a stake in its future Hi and welcome to TechScape. Nick Robins-Early here, US tech and power reporter at the Guardian. I’m filling in for your usual host Blake Montgomery, who is out this

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AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists

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Tech is helping to identify and save new specimens and could open ‘genomic goldmine’ of fungi dataThe rise of AI and digitisation could be a turning point in the “race against extinction” faced by botanists trying to identify and save vital plants before they vanish, according to a major report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.New

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Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook | Max von Thun

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The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of visionBeti Hohler is a Slovenian national who lives in the Netherlands. Like tens of millions of other Europeans, she uses Apple’s app store and has an Amazon account. When she travels for work or leisure, she may want

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Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace | Heather Stewart

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As such technology advances quickly, firms should not lose sight of what qualities humans bring to jobsA robot magician called D4YRL was rejected as a member of the Magic Circle last week, for being insufficiently human.While D4YRL’s tricks were exemplary, the august organisation decided “he” did not engage the audience’s emotions as a flesh-and-blood performer

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UK sets out AI infrastructure push at London Tech Week – how does it stack up?

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Government announces plans to invest billions, but questions linger over how its proposals on chips, social media and more will workOwnership of the commanding heights of the AI economy is a political talking point around the world, as countries seek to assert some control of a technology dominated by the US and China.London Tech Week,

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