Lab-grown foie gras and chicken are being tested by scientists to ensure they are safe for humans to eat, and could hit British restaurants and dinner tables in the next five years. It is the closest any such “cultivated meat” product has yet come to approval for human consumption in the UK, the Food Standards […]
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Tech companies have been warned to protect young people online after MPs voted down a blanket social media ban for under-16s. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ofcom, the communications regulator, have written to several platforms to demand stronger protections for children. Ofcom has given Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube until the end
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WhatsApp, the messaging service run by Meta, is going to allow under-13s on its platform, as long as they have parental consent. Parents will sign their children up to WhatsApp and then link their accounts with parental controls in place, in an update rolling out over the coming months. The accounts must remain linked until
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Google’s AI can identify breast cancer better than a human doctor, and potentially save the stretched NHS a huge amount of time and effort, a new study shows. If at this point you’re wondering why it isn’t being adopted immediately, well, if you read between the lines, the study shows that too. It’s a tale
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PlayStation gamers could be owed £2bn in compensation, according to a lawsuit launched on Tuesday. If successful, the class action case brought by consumer champion Alex Neill could mean cheaper PlayStation games and UK gamers receiving around £162 each in compensation. The case hinges on how the digital PlayStation Store, run by the console’s manufacturer
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MPs have voted against a proposal to ban under-16s from using social media. The Conservatives had pushed for the move via an amendment to the government’s flagship education legislation currently going through parliament: the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. It had been backed by the House of Lords, but was defeated in the Commons on
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Anthropic, which owns the AI assistant Claude, is suing the Trump administration after what it called an “unprecedented and unlawful” decision to blacklist the firm on national security grounds. The Pentagon designated the artificial intelligence company a “supply chain risk” on Thursday over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology. It has
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Earth experienced its fifth-warmest February on record last month – with temperatures at 1.49C above pre-industrial levels, scientists have said. The month was marked by “extreme rainfall and widespread flooding in Western Europe and the third-lowest sea ice extent in the Arctic”, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Tuesday. Experts say climate change was
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X has been questioned by MPs over “the most appalling and offensive” AI posts about the Hillsborough disaster. Over the weekend, Grok, X’s AI tool, was found to be falsely blaming Liverpool fans for the 1989 disaster, which led to the deaths of 97 fans, and using derogatory language about the city. A Sky News
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Elon Musk’s Grok is producing hate-filled, racist posts online after being asked for “vulgar” comments in the latest concerning trend by users on X. A Sky News analysis of the chatbot’s public responses shows highly offensive AI-generated replies with profanities about Islam and Hinduism – disparaging the religions with racist vitriol. The UK government described
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