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Australian regulator investigates Goo...
Australians are reportedly paying their telco providers for the data harvested by tech giantThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will investigate reports Google harvests huge amounts of data from Android phones, including detailed location information, after the software company Oracle revealed Google could be harvesting a gigabyte of data from devices each month. Not only […]
Volvo XC40: ‘It has the swagger of a ...
Volvo’s chunky little crossover has a big future ahead of itVolvo XC40 Price £34,9700-62mph 7.9 secondsTop speed 130mphMPG 56.5CO2 127g/kmOfficially, this is the best car made in Europe this year. At a glitzy ceremony in Geneva, which was more Eurovision than Oscars, Håkan Samuelsson, CEO of Volvo, stepped up to a spotlit stage to collect […]
Electric dreams of Philip K Dicklebur...
Georgina Chapman | In the Night Garden | Smart Compose | Philip K Dick | SuguruNo criticism of Georgina Chapman (‘I was so humiliated and so broken’, 11 May), but of the Guardian. Again you show an unhealthy interest in fashonista celebrity and weight loss – “the British fashion designer describes how she lost 10lbs […]
Fake terror attacks: why are the frig...
A fake Isis attack in an Iranian mall is the latest example of extreme YouTube pranks, a trend driven by American teensIt sounds like another terrifying story of insurgent terrorism in the Middle East: on Tuesday, men dressed in the black garb of the Islamic State stormed through a mall in Iran, brandishing swords and […]
Google’s AI program DeepMind learns h...
Google’s AI beat humans at a game that involved racing around an unfamiliar virtual environmentNotch up another win for the robots: the latest program from Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has trounced experts at a maze game after it learned to find its way around like a human.Scientists noticed that when they trained the AI […]