Category: Tech

Google to delete users’ location history, Rabbit AI gadget tested

Google will delete everything it knows about users’ previously visited locations, the company has said, a year after it committed to reducing the amount of personal data it stores about users. The company’s “timeline” feature – previously known as Location History – will still work for those who choose to use it, letting them scroll…

Plans to use social media posts to train AI criticised, Nvidia overtakes Apple

Plans to use peoples' public posts and images on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools belonging to parent company Meta have been attacked by digital rights groups. The social media giant recently has been informing UK and European users of the platforms that, under privacy policy changes, external taking effect 26 June, their information…

Tech skills training failing women in AI age, report claims 

Women are 40% more likely to have their work replaced by automation than men 80% of women in tech say they are not getting the career development they want A new report by social enterprise Code First Girls and Tech Talent Charter says the current approach to technology skills is ‘not fit for purpose’, leaving…
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TikTok hack targets Paris Hilton, X now officially allows X-rated content

TikTok says it is addressing a cyber-attack that targeted brands and celebrities, including Paris Hilton and CNN. However, the video-sharing app told the BBC that a "very limited" number of accounts had been compromised. It added that it was working with users to restore access to their accounts. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company…

MrBeast overtakes T-Series as biggest YouTube channel, iPhone 5S becomes obsolete

MrBeast has overtaken T-Series as the biggest YouTube channel in a long-running battle for the most subscribers. Indian music label T-Series, which uploads trailers and music videos, held the record for the largest YouTube channel for five years, before it was toppled on Sunday. MrBeast, real name Jimmy Donaldson, was already the individual with the…

Top 5 lessons that elite sport teaches business about performance errors

Author Karen Meager offers five tips that can be used to teach leaders about improving sustainable well-being and performance... As organisational psychologists, we are interested in behaviours that can be successfully adapted and adopted for the world of work. In researching elite sports for our new book, ‘Rest, Practise, Perform’ we observed approaches that can…

AI tools ‘much hyped but not much used’, YouTube rolls out Playables

Very few people are regularly using "much hyped" artificial intelligence (AI) products like ChatGPT, a survey suggests. Researchers surveyed 12,000 people in six countries, including the UK, with only 2% of British respondents saying they use such tools on a daily basis. But the study, from the Reuters Institute and Oxford University, says young people…

AI regulators are under-resourced, Tories turn to TikTok ahead of UK election

Regulators for artificial intelligence in the UK are "under-resourced" compared to developers of the technology, the Commons science committee chief has warned. Outgoing chairman of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Greg Clark, said he is "worried" by the gap between regulators and the "finance that major developers can command". In a report produced by…