The global outcry over the sexualisation and nudification of photographs – including of children – by Grok, the chatbot developed…
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Imagine you’re shopping for a dinner party this weekend and you spot some nice, but expensive, bottles of wine. You’re…
When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream. Tesla’s Optimus is pitched as an…
One of the first modern coworking spaces, C-Base in Berlin, was launched 30 years ago by a group of computer…
The amount of renewable energy produced around the world is increasingly exceeding demand – particularly from wind and solar sources.…
When Roro (not her real name) lost her mother to cancer, the grief felt bottomless. In her mid-20s and working…
Switching off can be surprisingly expensive. Much like the smoking cessation boom of the 1990s, the digital detox business –…
Social media and mobile phones are major disruptors of face-to-face conversations. Recent research has conclusively demonstrated that the indiscriminate (and…
In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as…
Online adverts are sometimes so personal that they feel eerie. Even as a researcher in this area, I’m slightly startled…