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BBC News - Technology

The medieval secrets being revealed by AI - A 400-year-old coded text found at the Vatican Library is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked with the help of artificial intelligence.

2 days ago

AI versions of Churchill, Kahlo and Gandhi on Question Time

1 day ago

'Controversial' North Korean invasion setting for next Call of Duty game

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How my brother went from liberal Hollywood actor to manosphere 'messiah'

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Science says dating app users fall into the same cycle. Here's how to spot it -- Download, burnout, delete, repeat: Dating app users follow a predictable and dangerous pattern. These are the signs you're falling for it – and how to escape.

17 hours ago

Businesses use Google's AI to trick you. Google is quietly fighting back -- A BBC investigation revealed a simple way to get AI chatbots to spit out misinformation. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem.

6 days ago

Can Pope Leo save us from AI?

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The space tech solving the world's signal problem

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How to stop AI from turning your brain to mush -- GPS ruined our sense of direction. Search engines weaken our memory. AI, scientists warn, could do the same to everything from creativity to critical thinking.

24 days ago

We can now track animal panic from space - and it's bad news for poachers -- The new Icarus satellite is tracking signals hidden in animal behaviour – which could save the lives of cheetahs, rhinos and elephants.

6 days ago

Big tech bets on new mascots in bid to seem more cuddly -- The likes of Apple, Microsoft and Google are all putting cartoon characters centre stage.

15 days ago

How sunburn inspired a new way to store energy -- Scientists are developing molecules that can store heat for months and release it when needed - a potential step towards cleaner energy for heating.

22 days ago

How the Victorians Built Britain

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How to Build A Dinosaur

16 days ago

Inside the Rage Machine

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The Darkest Web

3 months ago

Dating Apps: The Inside Story

5 months ago

Trump and the Tech Titans

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Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

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How a 19th Century visionary helped shape Sheffield's green spaces today -- Victorian entrepreneur J. G. Graves is also described as "the forerunner of the Amazon parcel".

13 hours ago

Ukraine using AI drones to strike vital convoys supplying Russian troops -- BBC Verify has analysed videos of attacks in occupied Ukraine on Russian trucks carrying ammunition, fuel and food.

19 hours ago

Social media ban 'won't keep children safe', commissioner warns -- Scotland's children's commissioner has warned a social media ban could drive children to less regulated or riskier parts of the internet.

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Endless creepy yellow corridors, 30bn TikTok views - and now a Hollywood film -- YouTuber Kane Parsons' eerie YouTube series has been adapted for a film called Backrooms.

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AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year -- The Home Office says the tool will make it easier to identify adult migrants "attempting to game the system".

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Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW -- BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.

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Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs -- The gaming giant said the handheld had not changed but the rise reflected "the current state of component costs"

2 days ago

King's College team wins access to cutting-edge Google quantum chip -- King's College London researchers hope the chip will help answer previously unanswerable questions about the most important natural processes.

2 days ago

Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans -- The BBC has been contacted by hundreds of users who claimed they had been wrongly banned from the sites.

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Google worker charged with using internal data to make $1.2m on bets -- The longtime Google employee was charged in New York for allegedly breaking insider trading laws.

2 days ago

The world's carmakers are struggling to compete with China -- The BBC visited China's EV factories and found they are dominating the ecosystems shaping the global auto industry.

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Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi diagnosed with cancer -- Bondi, who was diagnosed shortly after being ousted in April, is also joining the White House's new advisory council on AI.

3 days ago

Public warned after discarded batteries spark fires -- Householders are being urged not to put batteries and vapes in their bins.

3 days ago

Snapchat child sex abuser jailed for 15 years -- Luke Edmonds, 25, is jailed after pretending to be a teenager to groom girls for sex.

3 days ago

'Like a prisoner being released' - Relief for Iranians as internet shutdown ends -- The government imposed the blackout after the start of the war with the US and Israel in February, cutting most Iranians off from the outside world.

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