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Alibaba has become the latest Chinese technology giant to unveil its own ChatGPT-like AI model. Tongyi Qianwen, which translates to “truth from a thousand questions”, will be added to the firm’s existing apps, including workplace messaging and a voice assistant. Like OpenAI’s GPT tech, which has been added to websites from Microsoft’s Bing to travel
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YouTube is investigating a new email scam which has seen users receive messages from a seemingly authentic account. The Google-owned company has warned people to be cautious after reports of a phishing campaign claiming to be sharing details of a “new monetisation policy” and “new rules”. Monetisation is what allows creators to make money from
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E3, gaming’s biggest trade event, has been cancelled. Once the obvious home for the industry’s biggest players to make major annual announcements, the show has been heavily disrupted since the COVID pandemic and usurped by other initiatives. The likes of Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have become used to hosting their own livestreams instead, showing off
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Parts of Scotland will be treated to a display of the Northern Lights tonight. The spectacular sight comes during a period of heightened activity on the sun, whereby a coronal hole has emerged this week and hurtled superfast solar winds towards Earth. When these winds collide with our planet’s charged atmosphere during what are known
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A Tokyo-based space company, ALE, has announced it will create the world’s first artificial meteor shower in 2025 – producing man-made shooting stars that could be seen from the UK. Named project Sky Canvas, the celestial light show will involve launching satellites up into space and deploying “space fireworks”. The objective is entertainment on an
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