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What does boom in resource-hungry data centres mean for our future energy plans? | Science & Tech News
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“Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!” wrote poet John Betjeman in 1937. The scruffy trading estate west of London may only have got uglier since. But it’s definitely not somewhere you’d want to obliterate. Slough is now Europe’s largest data hub and the second largest in the world. Nearly every foreign exchange transaction passes…
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AI could predict patients’ future health conditions, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to predict the type of health conditions a patient is likely to develop in the future, a study has found. The technology could be used to help doctors when it comes to monitoring patients or making decisions around diagnosis, researchers said. The AI tool, known as Foresight, belongs to…
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TikTok’s US future in doubt as House demands end to China ownership | Business News
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TikTok’s Chinese owners are facing the prospect of the video app being banned in the United States unless they sell its American operation. A vote by the US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly supported a measure to force ByteDance into divestment within six months on national security grounds. The Bill still needs to pass the…
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How the whisky industry could help provide sustainable fuel for the future | Climate News
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Scientists at a university in Scotland believe they have discovered a way to turn waste water from the whisky industry into sustainable fuel. A team from Heriot-Watt University has developed materials that can use waste water from distilleries to produce green hydrogen which, unlike fossil fuels, does not produce carbon when it is burned. Green…
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Humanity ‘staring down barrel’ of potentially losing up to half of future medicines through plant extinction | Science & Tech News
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Humanity is “staring down the barrel” of potentially losing up to half of its future medicines through plant extinction, scientists have warned. Nearly half of all plants that flower are at risk, amounting to more than 100,000, while it is believed around 77% of all those as yet undescribed by science are at risk. Some…
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Starfield: Why sci-fi epic means so much to gamers – and could be key to Xbox’s future | Science & Tech News
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Games don’t get much bigger than this. On 6 September, Bethesda Game Studios, one of the most celebrated development teams in the world, will offer players something completely new for the first time in two decades. Far removed from the elves, orcs, and magic of its premiere Elder Scrolls franchise; as well as the post-apocalyptic…
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How AI could transform the future of crime | UK News
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“I am here to kill the Queen,” a man wearing a handmade metal mask and holding a loaded crossbow tells an armed police officer as he is confronted near her private residence within the grounds of Windsor Castle. Weeks earlier, Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, had joined the Replika online app – creating an artificial intelligence…
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Is this the future of comedy? The AI acts taking to the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe | Ents & Arts News
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It’s arguably the biggest existential threat facing humanity, so you’d think artificial intelligence (AI) might be an unlikely source for punchlines… but not at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Instead, an invasion is under way in the city, led by Vanessa 5000. Clown Courtney Pauroso’s invention, described on her posters as: “Artificially intelligent. Genuinely stupid. ChatGPT…
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NHS must embrace robotics and AI to be fit for future, surgeons warn | Science & Tech News
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The NHS must embrace robotics and AI if it is to make it through the current crisis and be fit to face future ones, surgeons have warned. Waiting lists for routine treatment, let alone complex surgery, have reached an all-time high this year as the health service grapples with a backlog made worse by the…
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SaxaVord Spaceport: Ancient cemetery found at future UK rocket launch site | Science & Tech News
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The remains of an ancient cemetery dating back thousands of years have been uncovered at the site of a UK spaceport. The discovery was made during groundworks at the SaxaVord complex in the Shetland Islands, which hopes to host Britain’s first ever vertical rocket launch before the end of 2023. Pits, large boulders, and burnt…