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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.

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Meta brings High Court challenge over Ofcom fees

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Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war

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Finding 'hidden sperm' in men deemed infertile

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AI firms claim their products could destroy humanity. Are they right? -- They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

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This is why your charging cables keep breaking -- Charging cables are the most overlooked technology in your life, until they break and you're stuck with a dying phone. Here's how to take better care of them.

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Who is really paying the influencers?

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Drone delivers first Amazon parcels in UK

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Why Sam Altman and his former hero Elon Musk are taking their toxic feud to court -- The battle between the AI big hitters has largely played out on social media. Now it is coming to the courtroom.

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How will Apple change under 'product guy' John Ternus? -- How Ternus responds to challenges facing Apple will go a long way to deciding the tech giant's future, writes Zoe Kleinman.

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How technology is transforming India's silk industry -- Silk production is an increasingly high-tech business in India.

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Can we predict the next global crisis? -- Spotting the events that might lead to a major period of upheaval is notoriously difficult. Could artificial intelligence be the crystal ball we need?

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Inside the Rage Machine

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Trump and the Tech Titans

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Dating Apps: The Inside Story

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The Darkest Web

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Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

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The First Inventors: Investigating Ancient Australia

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Riverdale actor calls out TikTok singer Mr Fantasy - but is all as it seems? -- The actor has branded the singer an identity thief - but plenty of fans think they're the same person.

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Award-winning farmer hopes to inspire more women -- As well as a blog and podcast, farmer Milly Fyfe leads initiatives to help people connect with food.

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'We had people come just to see it': Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone -- The unmanned aircraft can drop off 100 parcels a day within a 12km radius of Amazon's hub.

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Woman covertly filmed for 'humiliating' social media content - then told to pay -- Alice says the video was posted on social media and viewed about 40,000 times.

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The no-nonsense judge calling the shots in Musk v Altman trial -- The feud has fuelled a costly showdown between two tech titans.

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Former OpenAI board member says Elon Musk offered her sperm donations -- Shivon Zilis is the mother of four of Musk's children. That relationship began as she advised OpenAI.

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How insect brains could spark next AI revolution -- Insects' lightning-fast reactions could transform AI and robotics, Sheffield researchers say.

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Vapes warning as fires in bin lorries rise -- A local authority says there have been three waste fires since the start of the year.

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Robot wars - what an operation in Ukraine tells us about the battlefield of the near future -- After Ukraine's President Zelensky said territory had been captured using just robots and drones, what is the future of unmanned warfare?

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'I thought he was going to hit me', OpenAI co-founder says of Musk -- OpenAI president Greg Brockman spoke during the second week of a month-long trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.

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Apple to pay up to $95 to some US iPhone buyers over AI lawsuit -- Claims from last year said the tech firm's advertising of Apple Intelligence fooled iPhone buyers.

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US to safety test new AI models from Google, Microsoft, xAI -- New agreements between the companies and the Commerce department build on Biden-era pacts.

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AI chatbots giving misleading voting advice in run-up to election -- Candidate lists, constituency names and policy details are among the mishaps made by popular chatbots.

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Pornhub to become accessible again for some UK users -- UK iPhone users who have completed Apple's device-based age checks will no longer be blocked from the site's adult content.

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AI firms should face 'minimum wage for robots' to limit job cuts, says tech boss -- A tech entrepreneur warns "white-collar workers in places like Cardiff" are "in firing line of AI".

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