OpenAI to use FT journalism to train artificial intelligence systems
The Financial Times has struck a deal with ChatGPT developer OpenAI that allows its content to be used in training artificial intelligence systems. The FT…
View More OpenAI to use FT journalism to train artificial intelligence systemsCountries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years
Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in…
View More Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years‘Water everywhere’: Shropshire farmers race to salvage harvest after record rain
With his farm almost entirely surrounded by the banks of the River Severn in north Shropshire, Ed Tate is used to flooding on his land…
View More ‘Water everywhere’: Shropshire farmers race to salvage harvest after record rainMysterious Roman dodecahedron to go on display in Lincoln
They are known as one of archaeology’s great enigmas – hollow 12-sided objects from the Roman era with no known purpose or use. Only 33…
View More Mysterious Roman dodecahedron to go on display in LincolnReal terms average pay lower in most UK local authorities than in 2008, TUC finds
Pay packets are smaller than they were in 2008 in most local authority areas in the UK, according to analysis by the Trades Union Congress,…
View More Real terms average pay lower in most UK local authorities than in 2008, TUC findsBest Binoculars (2024): Nikon, Celestron, Swarovski, Zeiss
One caveat: Cabela’s frequently sells the pre-2018 model of these at a steep discount but doesn’t label it as such. I have not tested that…
View More Best Binoculars (2024): Nikon, Celestron, Swarovski, Zeiss11 Best Sleeping Bags (2024): Ultralight, for Car Campers, Warm Weather, for Kids
John Muir famously set off for the mountains with “some bread and tea in a pair of blankets with some sugar and a tin cup.”…
View More 11 Best Sleeping Bags (2024): Ultralight, for Car Campers, Warm Weather, for KidsFrom petri dish to plate: meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the table
The redbrick offices, just north of Hamburg’s River Elbe and a few floors below Carlsberg’s German headquarters, are an unexpectedly low-key setting for a food…
View More From petri dish to plate: meet the company hoping to bring lab-grown fish to the tableThe demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’
If anything is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it is the rise and stall of the account of Oprah Winfrey. Oprah joined the platform…
View More The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’10 Best Robot Vacuums (2024): Mops, Budget Vacs, Great Mapping
No other product I’ve tested has advanced as quickly as the humble robot vacuum. Just a few short years ago, they were mostly annoying, overpriced…
View More 10 Best Robot Vacuums (2024): Mops, Budget Vacs, Great Mapping