How to stay cool without air con – and help take some heat off the planet
Research suggests UK homes are uniquely unprepared to cope with rising global temperatures – but there are greener solutions to uncomfortable heat than air conditioning
‘A real opportunity’: how ChatGPT could help college applicants
With the end of affirmative action, generative AI could ‘democratize’ admissions by giving students who don’t have tutors or counselors a leg up
One scientist can be wrong. But deny the scientific consensus at your peril
In sniping at ‘failures’ on Covid, the former MI6 chief is reinforcing a false message
Can AI-generated art be copyrighted? A US judge says not, but it’s just a matter of time
American copyright legislation currently invokes a ‘human involvement’ criterion. But judging by the way smartphones have trivialised the ‘craft’ of photography, something has to give
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb: ‘UFOs should be the subject of mainstream inquiry. Science must bring clarity’
The Harvard scientist on his search for alien technology, academic jealousy and why we must fund space exploration
Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city
Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buys 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California
Trump’s return to Twitter solidifies a sharp right turn for Musk’s platform
By posting his mugshot, Trump joins Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene in transforming site now known as X
John Warnock, Adobe co-founder and inventor of PDF, dies aged 82
Creator of pioneering document sharing technology founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke
The EU has just clamped down on big tech. Britain, take note
The Digital Services Act is finally bringing social media giants to heel after 20 years of laissez-faire. Yet Westminster still dithers, says journalist Chris Stokel-Walker
How the EU Digital Services Act affects Facebook, Google and others
Threat of big fines and EU-wide ban hoped to curb manipulative practices and harmful content
Lost in a crowd: why phone signal is still so scarce at UK music festivals
Big events place a strain on networks but when 6G arrives, many of today’s problems will evaporate
The professor’s great fear about AI? That it becomes the boss from hell
Some concerns about artificial intelligence are very speculative, but there are genuine risks, says the man aiming to demystify the technology in the Royal Institution Christmas lectures
New York Times, CNN and Australia’s ABC block OpenAI’s GPTBot web crawler from accessing content
Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT
OnlyFans owner pays himself $1.3m a day from UK-based adult content site
Company’s 2022 accounts show pre-tax profits up by 22% to $525m, while Leonid Radvinsky took $338m in dividends