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Tech Digest roundup: Protecting British jobs from AI ‘will be a challenge’ warns taskforce head
Protecting British jobs will be a challenge as artificial intelligence systems become more advanced, the new head of the government's AI taskforce has told the BBC. Ian Hogarth said it was "inevitable" that more jobs would become increasingly automated. The whole world will have to rethink the way in which people work, he added. "There…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Trials begin on HVS hydrogen-powered truck
British trials have started of a heavyweight truck powered by a gas that's lighter than air - and emits nothing but water. Sky News was given exclusive access to the first British-designed and built heavy goods vehicle (HGV) to be fuelled by hydrogen as it was driven around the Horiba Mira test track in Warwickshire.…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Half of female gamers suffer abuse while playing
One in 10 women feel suicidal because of the abuse they face while gaming. New research for Sky Broadband shows that of 4,000 female gamers surveyed 49% have faced abuse or harassment when playing or streaming online - rising to 75% of those aged 18 to 24. The levels of harassment are so strong that…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Verified Twitter users to lose Blue Tick from April 1st
Many verified Twitter users are set to lose their blue ticks at the beginning of next month. The social media platform has said that on 1 April it will start removing its "legacy" verified checkmarks. These cover most blue-tick accounts that are not government officials or organisations - meaning many musicians, actors, journalists, authors, among…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google’s Bard chatbot launches
Image: Google Google’s Bard chatbot launched on Tuesday in the UK and US, as the company completes its dash to release a competitor to Bing Chat and ChatGPT. It is seen as a do-or-die moment for the company, whose profitable web search service risks being outcompeted by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Microsoft AI can replicate human voice after 3 seconds
Microsoft has unveiled an AI voice simulator capable of accurately imitating a person’s voice after listening to them speak for just three seconds. The VALL-E language model was trained using 60,000 hours of English speech from 7,000 different speakers in order to synthesize “high-quality personalised speech” from any unseen speaker. Once the artificial intelligence system has…
Tech Digest daily roundup: GM Motors pulls Twitter ads after Elon Musk takeover
The largest automaker in the US has pulled paid advertising on Twitter after Elon Musk completed his takeover of the social media company. Musk's $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter completed on Thursday and he reportedly sacked the company's chief executive and two other top bosses. The world's richest man tweeted "the bird is freed" and…
