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Reliable in romance | Smooth operator | Tory chatbot | Swimming tortoises Before Lizzie Cernik puts everybody off online dating (Dating burnout: meet the people who ditched the apps – and found love offline, 18 January), let me suggest you reinstate Guardian Soulmates, which was by far the most reliable dating site. I met interesting and gracious men, who were invariably socialists too, which was always my top priority. I’m now 83 and in a loving and equal relationship. I was lucky t

From haunted dolls to horror films, there is a big appetite right now for fear-as-fun. Are we all just practicing for what 2023 throws at us?A friend gleefully informed me that you can buy haunted dolls – “vessels” for unquiet spirits – on eBay. Rebekkah Sexual Spirit (“her vessel is missing an arm … she says she does not care”) has been snapped up, but you can get Maggie (“NOT A TOY”; “a vast mass of dark energy”; “can mak

Exclusive: Artificial intelligence expert questions firewall strategy, as Victoria opts to wait and seeFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastQueensland will join New South Wales in banning access to ChatGPT in state schools, though artificial intelligence experts have questioned how effective such a strategy is.Nine newspapers revealed on Sunday morning the NSW Department of Education would ban the techn

Prospects for artificial intelligence and green transition fuel sense that the only way is up for the global economyThe world has become hard-wired for pessimism, and there was plenty of it on display in Davos last week.Much has changed in the 52 years since the World Economic Forum was first held in the Swiss ski resort. At that original WEF summit the global economy was dominated by the rich nations of Europe and northern America, currencies were fixed under the Bretton Woods system, and oil w