Most of us would love a break from the 9-to-5 grind, evidenced by the recent hype over the four-day workweek. But a new startup from the UK promises to help you toil even less than that â while remaining just as productive.  The company is called Tomoro and itâs on a mission to cut the working week to just three days within the next five years. It aims to achieve... Read more âș
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Large Language Models (LLMs) â such as those used in chatbots â have an alarming tendency to hallucinate. That is, to generate false content that they present as accurate. These AI hallucinations pose, among other risks, a direct threat to science and scientific truth, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute warn. According to their paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour, âLLMs are designed to produce helpful and convincing responses without... Read more âș
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Security compliance (and particularly ISO 27001) is like the project in school you had the whole year to complete â and ended up starting in a panic the night before. Given the time, resources, and complexity of completing the certification, itâs one of the things startup founders are most likely to put off for a later date in favour of growth-focused tasks like sales and product development. What many donât... Read more âș
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The UK doesnât plan on introducing AI regulation anytime soon â in contrast to the EUâs and Chinaâs strict legislation efforts. During a Financial Times conference on Thursday, the countryâs first minister for AI and intellectual property, Viscount Jonathan Camrose, confirmed government concerns over regulation curbing growth and said that a UK law on artificial intelligence wonât be coming âin the short term.â While he refrained from critising other nationsâ... Read more âș
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The UK has become the first country in the world to approve CRISPR gene-editing therapy. The landmark biotech decision involves the treatment of two specific blood dieseases, but also opens the door for the use of the technology in treating many other genetic disorders. Regulators approved the use of CRISPR for the treatment of inherited diseases sickle-cell anaemia and ÎČ-thalassaemia on Thursday. The former affects the shape of red blood... Read more âș
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AI has made another assault on the English language. After taking the title of the Collins Dictionary word of the year, artificial intelligence this week assailed the Cambridge version. This time, the impact is more subtle â but deeper. The first example emerged from Cambridgeâs word of the year for 2023: âhallucinate.â Itâs an old word, but the award is due to a new meaning. In the latest versions of... Read more âș
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For UK battery startup NyoBolt, six seems to be the magic number. First, in June it showcased an EV that could be fully charged in just six minutes (a claimed record). And today it unveiled a new kind of supercharger that can also be recharged in â you guessed it â six minutes. Dubbed Bolt-ee, it essentially looks like a four-wheeled metal box with an interactive touchscreen for a face.... Read more âș
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An executive at one of generative AIâs leading companies has quit over the startupâs controversial use of copyrighted content. Ed Newton-Rex had been VP of audio at Stability AI, which produces the popular image-generator Stability Diffusion, but resigned due to the firmâs treatment of creators. âIâve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I donât agree with the companyâs opinion that training generative AI models... Read more âș
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French startup Circular claims to have created the worldâs thinnest and lightest smart ring â as well as the first-ever to use haptic navigation. The wearable, named the Circular Ring Slim, became available on pre-order today. Weighing just 2 grams and measuring a mere 2.2 mm in thickness, the device packs big features into a tiny frame. To analyse the userâs health, the ring assesses seven biometrics and 142 derived... Read more âș
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Deepfake fraud attempts have increased by a whopping 31 times in 2023 â a 3,000% increase year-on-year. Thatâs according to a new report by Onfido, an ID verification unicorn based in London. The company attributes the surge to the growing availability of cheap and simple online tools and generative AI. Face-swapping apps are the most common example. The most basic versions crudely paste one face on top of another to... Read more âș
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Oura, the Finnish health wearable startup, is suing one of its biggest rivals, claiming it copied its ring device and accessed proprietary information. The Oulu-based company, which makes the Oura Ring health tracking device and has raised more than âŹ140 million, has filed legal action against Indian company Ultrahuman. In a lawsuit filed in a court in Texas in early September, Oura accuses Ultrahuman of violating its patents and accessing... Read more âș
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was directly responsible for over 1 million fatalities in 2019, and the death toll keeps rising. It occurs when bacteria become resilient to antibiotics, making infections more difficult to treat â or in some cases impossible. In Finland, scientist Windi Muziasari has made it her mission to tackle this âsilent pandemic.â In 2018, after completing her PhD studies at the University of Helsinki, Muziasari founded Resistomap â... Read more âș
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With cybercrime on the rise across the UK and more SMEs being targeted, security is more important than ever before. Even if you believe your business is secure from data leaks and cyberattacks, if youâre not able to demonstrate this to potential clients, your sales team could be missing out on growth-driving deals. This is especially the case for enterprise clients that often require potential partners to demonstrate compliance with... Read more âș
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A new AI model Google DeepMind is the worldâs most accurate 10-day global weather forecasting system, according to the London-based lab. Named GraphCast, the model promises medium-range weather forecasts of âunprecedented accuracy.â In research published today, GraphCast was found to be more precise and faster than the industry gold standard for weather simulation, the High-Resolution Forecast (HRES). The system also predicted extreme weather from a more distant future than was... Read more âș
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Over the past year, AI image generators have taken the world by storm. Heck, even our distinguished writers at TNW use them from time to time. Truth is, tools like Stable Diffusion, Latent Diffusion, or DALL·E can be incredibly useful for producing unique images from simple prompts â like this picture of Elon Musk riding a unicorn. But itâs not all fun and games. Users of these AI models can... Read more âș
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While the glittering lights of Europeâs cities hold the promise of new opportunities, ideas, and fun, they also hold smog and a growing air pollution problem. Not to mention the fact that itâs hard to live your dream city life as youâre trapped in bumper-to-bumper traffic or spending your morning folding yourself into one metro after another. As the population of urban dwellers increases across cities from Stockholm to Milan,... Read more âș
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Norway-headquartered Otovo has secured âŹ40mn to expand its rent-to-buy online marketplace for solar panels, as it seeks to cash in on booming demand from homeowners looking to slash their energy bills. Otovo rents out solar panels and inverters at a fixed monthly cost, which includes all repairs and maintenance. The platform, currently available 13 European countries, uses satellite data and mapping information to calculate how much sunlight a section of... Read more âș
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People have been harnessing tidal energy for milling grain for more than 1,000 years. As youâd imagine though, todayâs contraptions for tapping this 24/7 power source are a little more sophisticated. One of the most eye-catching designs to emerge in recent years is a giant metal âkiteâ which swims underwater against the current, turning its rotor and generating electricity. Power is then sent to the grid via a subsea cable... Read more âș
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ChatGPTâs engine cooperates more than people but also overestimates human collaboration, according to new research. Scientists believe the study offers valuable clues about deploying AI in real-world applications. The findings emerged from a famous game-theory problem: the prisonerâs dilemma. There are numerous variations, but the thought experiment typically starts with the arrest of two gang members. Each accomplish is then placed in a separate room for questioning. During the interrogations,... Read more âș
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The European Space Agency has signed a deal with Airbus and Voyager Space to secure its next home in orbit. The two companies are currently developing Starlab, one of several planned replacements for the International Space Station (ISS), which is set to retire in 2030. Under the agreement, ESA will assess how the Starlab space station could be used to provide continued access to space for Europe after the retirement... Read more âș
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