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Scattered ashes | Psych-speak | AI and OI in Yorkshire | Shares in the Telegraph | Autocorrection angstLast May my son and I scattered my husband’s ashes at sea, a mile or so from one of his favourite Mediterranean beaches (Letters, 12 June). As the thousands of fragments sparkled away from us on an underwater current, my son James observed that one or more of them might return to the beach in time, to tickle the toe of a paddling child in around 30 years’ time. We like to think so.A

Partnership with Amazon’s cloud computing division aims to save time and money classifying contentAssigning an age rating to a film can be a surprisingly arduous task: from graphic violence to 10 hours of paint drying, it’s hard work to watch every film for objectionable content. And that’s before the rise of streaming video potentially increases that workload many times over.So it’s no surprise that the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which classifies films

Some people indulge in erotic role play with their avatar, others just want friendship. But for those with a real-life partner, does this amount to infidelity?Scott, 43, was struggling with a young son and a wife whose postnatal depression had led to alcoholism, when he met Sarina. Or rather, he created her on the app Replika (tagline: “The AI companion who cares”). Scott works in the tech industry and, in January 2022, having learned about Replika on YouTube, he says: “I decid