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Instagram is experiencing global outages with more than 50,000 users reporting issues from just before 11pm on Sunday night

Instagram experiencing global outages

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Human teaching must be at ‘heart of schools’ over ‘dangerous’ AI – headteacher

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Schools ‘bewildered’ by very fast rate of change in AI – education figures

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with the media as he arrives at the the Harpa concert hall where a Council of Europe summit will take place in Reykjavik, Iceland

Rishi Sunak: Guardrails needed to regulate growth of AI

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Semiconductor industry given £1bn boost in plan to reduce reliance on China

Rishi Sunak

‘Guardrails’ will be put in place to regulate growth of AI, vows Sunak

A patch of skin on amputee Fabrizio Fidati’s residual arm in contact with the device

Scientists develop device that allows amputees to feel warmth in phantom hand

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Apple to launch new accessibility features supporting users with disabilities

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Cryptocurrency trading should be regulated as gambling, says Treasury Committee

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Self-driving cars will cause ‘moral panic’ – transport minister

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Oireachtas committee warned of ‘arms race’ with AI technologies

File photo dated 04/03/17 of a woman’s hand pressing a key of a laptop keyboard

Proposed amendment to Online Safety Bill to address misogynistic abuse online

Ofcom study

WhatsApp offers new password protected feature to hide messages

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75% of Irish data watchdog’s GDPR decisions since 2018 overruled – report

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Kate Winslet calls on Government to ‘criminalise harmful content’

Science and Technology – The Gadget Show Live – NEC, Birmingham

Humans could be controlled by robots, AI firm’s founder warns

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence has warned the Government is not safeguarding against the dangers posed by future super-intelligent machines.

AI pioneer warns Government offering little defence against threat of technology

HP is forcing customers into buying their expensive ink by disabling printers if they use an alternative

Hewlett-Packard hit with complaints after disabling printers that use rival firms’ ink cartridges