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No Man's Sky's unofficial official community group The Galactic Hub have launched a treasury, and cryptocurrency, to add end-game value (though it has no value)
In today’s newsletter: Archie Bland breaks down a report into how Conservative reforms were linked with an increase in deaths from treatable causes
In today’s newsletter: devastating results for the Conservatives in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton intensify questions over the prime minister’s future
Media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) tends to invoke tired references to The Terminator or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000 killing people on a spaceship. Hollywood loves a story about a sentient robot destroying humanity to survive. Google researcher Blake Lemoine last week grabbed headlines for getting suspended after releasing transcripts of a “conversation” with its Lamda AI research experiment. Lemoine believes that Lamda is sentient and aware of itself, and describes the machine as a “coworker.” He told the Washington Post that part of his motivation for going public ...
Sharing our baby’s care has given my partner the time to bond with our son. Why is this a privilege, not a right? says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett