Who won the 2020 presidential election? Alexa can’t always say. And chatbots built by Microsoft and Google won’t answer at all. In a pivotal year for global democracy, some artificial intelligence chatbots and voice assistants are still struggling to answer basic questions about elections in the United States and abroad, raising concerns the tools could […]
Next week, President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump will face off in a presidential debate on CNN. The network announced the rules this weekend. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: A week from Thursday, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will meet face-to-face in a presidential debate. There is a lot here that’s going […]
The Reform UK candidate Grant StClair-Armstrong has resigned after it was discovered he had previously encouraged people to vote for the far-right British National party. StClair-Armstrong, 71, is standing for election in North West Essex, challenging the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch. The Times reported that he wrote a blog post in 2010 that lamented the […]
Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondentJun 16, 2024, 11:28 AM ET MUNICH, Germany — Ukraine defender Illia Zabarnyi said he is grateful to the “warriors” defending his country for giving him the opportunity to play in Monday’s Euro 2024 opener against Romania at the Allianz Arena in Munich. Ukraine’s presence in Germany is their first involvement in […]
23 hours ago By Kavita Puri, Presenter, Three Million podcast BBC “I feel enormous shame about what happened,” Susannah Herbert tells me. Her grandfather was the governor of Bengal, in British India, during the run-up and height of the 1943 famine which killed at least three million people. She is only just learning about his significant role […]
Getty Images Long waits for cancer care are becoming routine across the UK with nearly half of all specialist cancer centres experiencing delays most weeks, the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has said. The college has warned of an “impending crisis” in the cancer workforce, with a “staggering” 30% shortfall in radiologists and 15% shortfall […]
Since Amazon acquired the primary-care service One Medical, elderly patients have been routed to a call center — staffed partly by contractors with limited training — that failed on more than a dozen occasions to seek immediate attention for callers with urgent symptoms, according to internal documents seen by The Washington Post. When one patient […]
US regulators are investigating after a Boeing 737 Max 8 flown by Southwest Airlines rocked side to side while in air, a potentially dangerous movement known as a Dutch roll. It is one of two new inquiries involving Boeing planes that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently confirmed. The agency is also involved after […]
In Russellville, Arkansas, 300 couples from across the country signed up, saying “I do” just before the sky went black. As the sky brightened, the group cut wedding cakes and danced – all part of the aptly named Total Eclipse of the Heart festival. Following the Moon one state over, in Ellsinore, Missouri, was amateur […]
There’s the Tory tax-cutting rhetoric and then there’s the tax-rising reality: between 2019 and 2024 the Conservatives delivered the largest rise in tax as a share of GDP of any postwar parliament (3.3%, equivalent to more than £3,000 per household). Higher taxes should mean more pressure for fair taxes – to maintain public consent for paying in. […]