Three UK partners with Internet Matters

Three UK partners with Internet Matters

Three UK has partnered with Internet Matters, as part of its commitment to promoting digital well-being and online safety for children and families. In light of the rise of social media usage amongst young people and digital safety being a key issue, the partnership underpins Three’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategy to …

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Tinder, Hinge and other dating apps face legal reckoning

Tinder, Hinge and other dating apps face legal reckoning

As the rest of us were celebrating love on Valentine’s Day, dating apps were hit with accusations of crimes against it. Match Group — the parent company that owns the majority of the major dating apps, including Tinder, Hinge, The League, Match.com, PlentyOfFish and more — was sued on the 14th in a proposed class …

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Klarna is selling a buy-now-pay-subscription. Is it worth it?

Klarna is selling a buy-now-pay-subscription. Is it worth it?

Klarna, a major buy-now, pay-later provider, is offering a new monthly subscription for its customers for $7.99. The biggest attraction? It eliminates service fees. “The main proposition of Klarna Plus right now is that you don’t pay any service fees,” Klarna Chief Marketing Officer David Sandstrom said in a statement. “So if you love Klarna …

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Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses

Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses

A chatbot based on Google’s large language model can take medical histories from simulated patients and offer a range of diagnoses.Credit: Tero Vesalainen/Getty An artificial intelligence (AI) system trained to conduct medical interviews matched or even surpassed human doctors’ performance at conversing with simulated patients and listing possible diagnoses on the basis of the patients’ …

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Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers, says people should live in giant space stations

Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers, says people should live in giant space stations

Artificial intelligence is more likely to save humanity than to destroy it, Jeff Bezos said recently. The billionaire also said he would like to see the human population grow to one trillion, with most people living in huge cylindrical space stations. In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, the Amazon AMZN founder and former CEO …

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