iPhone 16 review: more buttons and speed for Apple’s standard phone
Apple’s latest iPhone bucks the trend of buttons vanishing from phones, gaining not one but two new controls on the outside, plus a big jump in chip performance and two-day battery life on the inside.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.The standard iPhone 16 is Apple’s smallest and lowest-priced handset in the new 16 series, costing from £799 (€959/$799/A$1,399) sitting below the bigger and more expensive 16 Plus and 16 Pro models
‘It’s not me, it’s just my face’: the models who found their likenesses had been used in AI propaganda
The well-groomed young man dressed in a crisp, blue shirt speaking with a soft American accent seems an unlikely supporter of the junta leader of the west African state of Burkina Faso.“We must support … President Ibrahim Traoré … Homeland or death we shall overcome!” he says in a video that began circulating in early 2023 on Telegram. It was just a few months after the dictator had come to power via a military coup.Other videos fronted by different people, with a similar professional-looking appearance and repeating the exact same script in front of the Burkina Faso flag, cropped up around the same time.On a verified account on X a few days later the same young man, in the same blue shirt, claimed to be Archie, the chief executive of a new cryptocurrency platform
Google to buy nuclear power for AI datacentres in ‘world first’ deal
Google has signed a “world first” deal to buy energy from a fleet of mini nuclear reactors to generate the power needed for the rise in use of artificial intelligence.The US tech corporation has ordered six or seven small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from California’s Kairos Power, with the first due to be completed by 2030 and the remainder by 2035.Google hopes the deal will provide a low-carbon solution to power datacentres, which require huge volumes of electricity. The company, owned by Alphabet, said nuclear provided “a clean, round-the-clock power source that can help us reliably meet electricity demands”.The explosive growth of generative AI, as well as cloud storage, has increased tech companies’ electricity demands
TechScape: Elon Musk is stumping hard for Donald Trump
Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, technology news editor at the Guardian US. Thank you for joining me.Average daily notifications: 270Apps with the most total notifications: – Messages: 391 – New York Post: 190 – Slack: 121Elon Musk is stumping hard for Donald Trump.The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has funded a pro-Trump political action committee with tens of millions of dollars and planned a packed campaign schedule to boost the former president in Pennsylvania
Oura Ring 4 review: best smart ring gets comfort and battery upgrade
Oura’s stylish smart ring worn by celebrities and athletes alike has slimmed down for its fourth iteration, making it easier to put on, more comfortable to wear and last longer between charges.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.The Ring 4 swaps the clear plastic insides of its predecessor for shiny titanium to look even less like a cutting-edge piece of tech on your finger
Ofcom urged to act after US firm claims Roblox is ‘paedophile hellscape’
Child safety campaigners have urged the UK communications watchdog to make a “step-change” in its implementation of new online laws after a video game firm was accused of making its platform an “X-rated paedophile hellscape”.Roblox, a gaming platform with 80 million daily users, was accused of lax safety controls last week by a US investment firm.Hindenburg Research claimed Roblox’s games exposed children to grooming, pornography, violent content and abusive speech. The company, which has stated that it is seeking to profit from a fall in Roblox’s share price by taking out a so-called “short” position on the company’s stock, added it had found multiple accounts named using variations of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and child sexual abuser, and had been able to set up an account under the name of a notorious American paedophile.“We found Roblox to be an X-rated paedophile hellscape, replete with users attempting to groom our avatars, groups openly trading child pornography, widely accessible sex games, violent content and extremely abusive speech – all of which is open to young children,” said Hindenburg
Kimmel on Trump’s latest attacks: ‘When they go low, they go really low’
Calls for ACCC investigation into live music industry amid warnings artists may be getting ‘ripped off’
‘It’s quite a thing to do a show here and openly use the word looting’: artist Hew Locke on decolonising the British Museum
Sculpture by the Sea 2024: giant melanoma on Sydney beach to deliver ‘message that will be hard to ignore’
Melissa Leong: ‘The weirdest thing I’ve done for love? Live on an abattoir’
Carol Vorderman to leave LBC radio show after ‘health scare’
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