Microsoft chief: AI surveillance like Orwell’s 1984 could be three years away

The tech giant’s president fears automated spying on private citizens if politicians do not get to grips with the march of artificial intelligence. Facebook to take action against users repeatedly sharing misinformation as Biden’s spies hunt Covid source. QAnon slogans are disappearing from mainstream sites, say researchers. German scientists claim to have solved Covid vaccine blood-clot puzzle. Climate crisis boiling point as world nears maximum working temperature. Police investigate ‘arson attack’ at Tesla’s German Gigafactory. Scientists hail ‘entirely new and promising way’ to combat heart failure. Stephen Hawking’s office and archive saved for the nation...including his Simpsons script. 

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