Technology

The Game Awards’ conductor talks creating a Games of the Year medley and the return of Flute Guy.

It’s the holidays, and you know what that means: an endless stream of wishlists, gift guides, and splashy sales of products competing for our cash. Since this is the 21st century, so many of those are tech products — wearables, AI-infused gadgets, smart birdhouses, a firepit you control with an app, you name it. It’s…

It is a small but fast-growing sector, and other providers of AI-powered clones include fellow UK business Synthesia and US start-up Delphi. The idea is that users can free up their time, with their digital clone taking on some of their workload, be it talking to employees, or offering advice to clients.

A cutting-edge tool from Open AI appears to be poorly moderated, allowing it to be abused by cyber-criminals.

“We use sophisticated technology, hire child safety experts, report content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and share information and tools with other companies and law enforcement, including state attorneys general, to help root out predators.”

Tom Petty’s B-side track Love Is A Long Road has seen a near 37,000% increase in streams on Spotify.

President Bukele is celebrating as his $120m Bitcoin reserve is finally in the black – but economists are not.

The Access Controller is a ‘highly customisable kit’ of buttons, triggers and sticks, the firm says.

In a nondescript Culver City warehouse, members of the metal band Avenged Sevenfold wear protective booties over their shoes to avoid scuffing the floor-to-ceiling green screen. The surroundings couldn’t be more different from their usual fire-and-brimstone aesthetics. That will soon change, of course, with the green screen swapped out for a series of fantastical concert…

“I have every confidence that between all of our colleagues around the world, we will invent technologies, philosophies, methodologies, practices, monitors, regulations, design practices, to keep technology safe,” founder, President and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang told the BBC at a roundtable interview on Wednesday.