TikTok’s power to deliver “exhilaration” and the UK’s relationship with China are shaping the UK government’s acceptance of the short video app despite “genuine concerns”
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AI tool can give ministers ‘vibe check’ on whether MPs will like policies
A new artificial intelligence tool can warn ministers whether policies are likely to be very unpopular with their party’s MPs, using a search described as
David Beckham urges World Economic Forum to fight for girls’ rights – as it happened
our story here – the highest reading for the UK ever. But PWC’s global chair Mohamed Kande, presenting the broader results, says that most international
The Brutalist and Emilia Perez’s voice-cloning controversies make AI the new awards season battleground
The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used
TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister says
TikTok users posting videos of cats or dancing do not pose a security threat to the UK, a cabinet minister has said, as he defended
Australian Open avatars helping tennis reach new audience
The proposition is compelling: near-live, commentated coverage of the Australian Open, free to anyone across the world via YouTube, enhanced via a stream of comments
‘Like a big box of chocolates’: Tom Hanks puts his typewriters on display
Some celebrities collect art, rare film prints or plain old action figures. (Welcome to the club, Leonardo DiCaprio.) Tom Hanks, somewhat famously, collects something that’s
Drones flying into jails in England and Wales are national security threat, says prisons watchdog
Drones have become a “threat to national security”, the prisons watchdog has said, after a surge in the amount of weapons and drugs flown into
Ministers consider ban on all UK public bodies making ransomware payments
Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making ransomware payments under government proposals to tackle hackers. In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks,
Brazil says Meta getting rid of factcheckers is ‘bad for democracy’
The decision by the social media giant Meta to end factchecking in the United States is “bad for democracy”, Brazil’s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio