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The end of typing? Why workers are suddenly ditching their keyboards

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The end of typing? Why workers are suddenly ditching their keyboards

Employees are now whispering to AI voice dictation tools rather than clacking the keys. Will ‘voicepilling’ make everyone more productive – or just more annoying?

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Stanford professor teaches his classes ‘tech-free’—here’s the skill he wants his students to build

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Stanford professor teaches his classes ‘tech-free’—here’s the skill he wants his students to build

"Just as we must be responsible for our bodies in an era of office work, we must now keep our minds active," says Jamil Zaki, director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab.

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Family of teen who died from a drug overdose after consulting ChatGPT sues OpenAI

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Family of teen who died from a drug overdose after consulting ChatGPT sues OpenAI

The family of Sam Nelson, a California teen who died from a drug overdose after allegedly taking advice from ChatGPT, is suing OpenAI. Jo Ling Kent reports.

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The 100 best novels of all time

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The 100 best novels of all time

A countdown of the greatest literature published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

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He's So Random

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He's So Random

A software engineer wanted to resist the usual algorithms. So he created his own—and transformed his whole existence.

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The Most Awkward Cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2

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The Most Awkward Cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2

The Last Supper makes a conspicuous—and strange—appearance during a gathering of self-styled elites.

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Bulls and bears both believe this could be 1999 all over again. Embrace it or dump your tech stocks?

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Bulls and bears both believe this could be 1999 all over again. Embrace it or dump your tech stocks?

We are not guaranteed a close rerun of the 1999-2000 extremes. Just because things got crazier then doesn't mean that's ahead of us.

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SoftBank has injected $450 million into this British AI chip company

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SoftBank has injected $450 million into this British AI chip company

U.K.-based Graphcore is developing AI chips and systems and was acquired by the Japanese giant in 2024.

3 months ago

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The car park that changed British art: Bold Tendencies at 20

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The car park that changed British art: Bold Tendencies at 20

Two decades after it opened in a multi-storey in Peckham in London, the space has redrawn the map for how to present art – with rooftop cocktails and the pink staircase that launched a thousand selfies

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‘I shared a single bed with my mother for three years’: Sung Tieu on her monument to immigrant workers in Venice

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‘I shared a single bed with my mother for three years’: Sung Tieu on her monument to immigrant workers in Venice

At the German pavilion, the artist has re-created the housing estate where she grew up to tell the forgotten history of migrants, including her parents, hired under a socialist agreement between East Germany and Vietnam – then abandoned

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EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media

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EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media

"We are investigating platforms that allow children to go down \"rabbit holes\" of harmful content," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.

3 months ago

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Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI

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Trump heads to China to spread the gospel of American tech while emulating Xi Jinping on AI

Tim Cook and Elon Musk, among other tech CEOs, will accompany the US president on a trip to China

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