Musician charged with using bots to boost streaming revenue
Getty Images A musician in the US has been accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools and thousands of bots to fraudulently stream songs billions of times in order to…
Could PS5’s old-school adventure be a lesson for Sony?
Sony Bot the difference: Astro Bot features dozens of cameos from well-known PlayStation characters It’s just a few hours before reviews of one of the year’s biggest PlayStation 5 releases…
Thieves snatched his phone in London
Akara Etteh Akara Etteh had his phone stolen as he walked out of a Tube station. Early on a Saturday morning in April, Akara Etteh was checking his phone as…
Google abusing ad tech dominance, UK competition watchdog finds
Google uses anti-competitive practices to dominate the market for online advertising technology, a UK watchdog has provisionally found. The potentially unlawful behaviour could be harming thousands of UK publishers and…
How airline seats became key tech products
Chris Baraniuk It’s estimated that one third of the world’s airline seats are made in Northern Ireland In a warehouse building in a quiet town in Northern Ireland, a robot…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says his arrest is ‘misguided’
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has hit out at French authorities, calling his arrest last week in relation to allegations of insufficient moderation on the messaging app “misguided”. In…
Trump says Musk could head ‘government efficiency’ force
Donald Trump said he would enlist Elon Musk to run a “government efficiency commission” if he wins a second term as US president. Speaking to the Economic Club of New…
AI solves the ‘cocktail party problem’ and proves useful in court
Getty Images In groups people screen out chatter around them – and now technology can do the same It’s the perennial “cocktail party problem” – standing in a room full…
Volvo gives up plan to sell only EVs by 2030
Car company Volvo has announced it has abandoned its target to produce only fully electric cars by 2030, saying it now expects it will also be selling some hybrid vehicles…
Markets slide as Nvidia shares plunge almost 10%
Financial markets in Asia and the US have tumbled on concerns that the world’s largest economy could be headed towards a recession. Shares in American chip giant Nvidia slumped by…