Bank of England starts recruiting Britcoin team
The Bank of England is recruiting a team to work on the development of a digital pound as payments using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are set to soar....
Developer creates “self-healing” programs that fix themselves thanks to AI
Enlarge / An AI-generated and human composited image of "Wolverine programming on a computer."Benj Edwards / Midjourney Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do...
Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town
Enlarge / A screenshot of the "Generative Agents" demo where 25 AI-controlled characters live out life in a town called Smallville.J.S. Park, J.C. O’Brien, C.J. Cai, M. Morris, P. Liang,...
AMRC demos UK’s first, fully operational standalone 5G factory of the future
UK manufacturers are another step closer to creating a more adaptable manufacturing ecosystem, with advantages in manufacturing efficiency and flexibility, thanks to the delivery of the UK’s first, fully...
Far North Fiber plots route for pan-Arctic connectivity
In what is said to be a major step forward for the project, Far North Fiber, which aims to build the first pan-Arctic submarine cable system connecting Europe and...
China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger
China proposed new checks on artificial intelligence chatbots on Tuesday, in an effort to control how its tech industry rolls out generative AI models, as popularized by ChatGPT in the...
UK broadband industry to see huge increases in tariffs in April 2023
Just as they were having to deal with substantial inconvenience due to two major network outages, Virgin Media broadband users were hit again on 4 April when their supplier...
Apple releases last week’s security patches for older iPhones, iPads, and Macs
Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15.Apple Last week, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 16.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1 to patch two actively exploited security vulnerabilities and fix other small bugs....
Analysts say Mac sales are down 40% as post-pandemic PC sales slump continues
Enlarge / Apple's M2 Pro Mac mini.Andrew Cunningham The analysts at IDC have released their worldwide PC sales numbers for the first quarter of 2023, and the news isn't good...
There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes
Enlarge / Infrared image of a person jimmying open a vehicle.Getty Images When a London man discovered the front left-side bumper of his Toyota RAV4 torn off and the headlight...