• Ethical alternatives to American goods | Brief letters

    Ethical alternatives to American goods  | Brief letters
    Trumping consumption | Greenland and Crimea | Running robots | Coffee, beer and newsprint | Extra time in examsPleased to see I’m far from alone in trying to avoid American products (This un-American life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?, 19 April). Mostly there are alternatives. There is no need to make your own cleaning products – for example, there are Bio-D and Faith in Nature. I have a Kobo e-reader and a Doro phone. A good source of alternatives is Eth
  • Cutting the complexity from digital carpentry

    Many products in the modern world are in some way fabricated using computer numerical control (CNC) machines, which use computers to automate machine operations in manufacturing. While simple in concept, the ways to instruct these machines is in reality often complex. A team of researchers has devised a system to demonstrate how to mitigate some of this complexity.
  • Microsoft says everyone will be a boss in the future – of AI employees

    Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasksMicrosoft has good news for anyone with corner office ambitions. In the future we’re all going to be bosses – of AI employees.The tech company is predicting the rise of a new kind of business, called a “frontier firm”, where ultimately a human worker directs autonomous artificial intelligence agents to carry out tasks. Continue reading...
  • Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer

    Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents say AI company has distributed leaflets that downplay pollution dangersElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is stirring controversy in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s where he’s building a massive supercomputer to power his company xAI. Community residents and environmental activists say that since the supercomputer was fired up last summer it has become one of the biggest air polluters in the county. But some local officials have cha
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