Samsung has revealed that ‘Galaxy AI’ is coming to its next smartphone, the S24 series.
It’s thought the flagship phone’s new processor will allow it to run AI apps on the device itself, rather than through the cloud.
Our tech reporter Saqib Shah tells the Tech & Science Daily podcast what he thinks the AI on Samsung’s new models will likely do, and explains why he thinks their focus on AI is an indication of where things are headed.
In the UK, facial recognition technology could soon replace passports in airports.
The director of the UK’s Border Force, Phil Douglas has told The Times he was “really impressed” by e-gate schemes in Australia and Dubai, where you’d simply have to look into a camera to gain entry to a country.
He also revealed that he wanted to create an “intelligent border” that used “much more frictionless facial recognition than we currently do”.
A group of MPs are calling on the government to repurpose a now closed covid testing lab into a research facility for tackling antibiotic resistance.
The Rosalind Franklin Laboratory in Leamington Spa opened in 2021 and was the first Covid-19 testing mega lab in the UK, processing around 8.5 million tests during the pandemic.
It closed in 2023, but a cross-party group of MPs are now calling on the Government to use the facility to research bacteria-killing viruses called phages, which are normally harmless to humans.
They work by penetrating the bacterial membrane and replicating inside the cell until it bursts open, killing the bacterium.
The Met Office has revealed that 2023 was the second hottest year ever on record for the UK.
Provisional figures show 2023 had an average mean temperature of 9.97C, and only 2022 was hotter when temperatures exceeded 40C for the first time in recorded history.
Met Office scientists have calculated that 2023’s average temperature would have been a one-in-500-year event without humans changing the climate through producing greenhouse gases.
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Redditors tell Google what they want from Bard AI, ‘teenage T. rex’ fossils ‘are a different dinosaur species’ and a US teenager becomes first human to ‘beat’ Tetris on NES.
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