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When I picture the robot carer that might look after me when I’m old, I see something vaguely human – an endlessly patient android that can make dinner, help me out of bed, and pretend to laugh at stories it’s heard 300 times while it secretly scrolls through whatever the robot equivalent of Tinder is on its internal smartphone. The reality already rolling into people’s homes is less dramatic – though probably far more useful. Take Barcelona resident Irene Veglison. She hasn’t danced in more than two decades. Three months after Sandi moved in though, she was swaying along to…
It’s always nice to start a sci-fi or fantasy book series knowing that there’s an ending waiting for you. That said, you don’t get the pleasure of wondering along with other fans what comes next, because the answers are already out there. Of course, if you opt to start reading an unfinished series, you run the risk of never seeing the ending, since there’s no guarantee the author will ever get around to writing it. But in some cases, series like that are worth the read anyway. The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson No need to worry Credit: Tor Books We’ll…
ChatGPT has become the everyday assistant for drafting emails, summarizing PDFs, and even reviewing contracts. But that convenience comes with a catch: every file you drop into the chat window doesn’t just vanish after you get your answer. It’s logged, potentially retained for weeks, and on personal plans, it can even be used to train future versions of the model unless you specifically disable that. So before you upload your next document, it’s worth knowing exactly what happens to it once it leaves your device. Related ChatGPT Remembers Everything About You—Here’s How to Stay in Control ChatGPT remembers… but you…
Your smart TV hangs on the wall in your living room, pride of place. Most folks, myself included, don’t really think about it beyond what I want to watch in the evening, once my hands are finally unglued from a keyboard. You wouldn’t be wrong to do exactly the same after a long old day. But the news that over 200 million LG TVs were reportedly hoovering up data while in standby mode really got me thinking about how else my smart TV could be breaching my privacy without me realizing. And then it dawned on me: my model has…
Google TV is one of the best operating systems around, but I can’t say the same for its home screen experience. It’s cluttered, and half the time, you’re just scrolling through sponsored content or watching suggestions from services you don’t even subscribe to. The worst part here is the lack of control. There’s no real way to fix any of this from within Google TV’s own settings. The good news is that there are enough third-party launcher apps that solve this problem. I’ve tried almost all the popular options, but these four are the only ones worth your time. FLauncher…
You don’t need to read the name on the dial to understand the innate quality of a watch. Beautiful design, exceptional finishing, specs that border the improbable, you pay for more than the label. Or do you? More and more often, watchmakers are offering timepieces that seem to completely outclass their price tags; the kind of models that you could quite easily convince less informed collectors are worth an extra decimal point than you paid. We’re talking skeletonization, guilloche and retro style ripped out of a vintage catalogue – all for prices that make you wonder what the catch is.…
Summary Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger believes AI has a greater than 10% chance of causing human extinction within the next decade. Today’s more immediate AI threats include autonomous security breaches, increasingly convincing scams, and possible declines in unaided critical-thinking performance. Protect yourself by securing personal data and using AI selectively instead of outsourcing every task — and your underlying skills — to it. An Anthropic safety researcher says he believes there’s a greater than 10% chance AI kills us all within the next decade. Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic’s Alignment Science team, made the extraordinary estimate after his colleague Jacob…
My Roku Streaming Stick 4K has sat on Auto since the day I plugged it into my LG OLED. I never questioned it because Auto sounds like the setting a company chooses when its engineers have already solved the problem for you. Besides, with all the free Roku content, why would I second-guess a default? And then it happened. During a movie, half a conversation disappeared during a fight scene, and I had to rewind twice to catch what I’d missed. A few nights after that, a swell in a soundtrack on another film turned into something closer to static…
The iPhone Duo is here. If you fancy spending as much as a MacBook Pro on a bend-o-phone with an Apple logo, boy are you going to want to save up your pennies before the 16 October pre-order date. But now that an iPhone can multitask, letting you use more than one app at once, maybe you don’t even need a Mac now, right? And definitely not an iPad? Spoiler: wrong. Second spoiler: I’m miffed about this, because so many other decisions Apple made about the iPhone Duo software are really good. I know. Usually, I’m grumpy, cynical and jaded. I’d normally…
One of this year’s hottest upcoming phone series has just been revealed. Yes, it’s time for the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max (as well as the iPhone Duo), but as you’ll hear, it isn’t time for the standard iPhone 18 – yet. What’s the difference this year? For some time now, reports have suggested that Apple would break its regular yearly cycle of iPhone launches as it juggles with multiple different models of iPhone and smartphone development slows down year-to-year. So we have a premium-only iPhone lineup coming this year, in the shape of the iPhone 18 Pro and 18…