AI is already getting boring

It could end white-collar work. It could end poverty. It could end humanity. From AI’s boosters and doomers alike, bumptious predictions abound. But in workplaces, the technology, like so many before it, is becoming mundane. Are things really differen…

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Britain is losing its hybrid war with Russia and is unprepared for conflict, warns top former US aide

Exclusive: Ex-government advisor and White House aide Fiona Hill leads a growing chorus of experts warning that the UK has no capacity to survive an escalation of a hybrid attack from Vladimir Putin let alone a full-scale global conflict, reports world…

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From the archives: Strandbeests, wind-powered works of art

For years Dutch artist Theo Jansen has created what he calls Strandbeests – ambulatory contraptions that walk across the beach powered by nothing but the wind. Elizabeth Palmer reports on these eclectic works of art, in a “Sunday Morning” story that fi…

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Malian Defence Minister Sadio Camara killed by rebels

Mali’s Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in coordinated attacks targeting military sites, officials said, marking a major blow to the ruling junta. The killing comes amid a surge in violence by jihadist and rebel groups, raising fresh concerns …

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