5 h. ago 'I don't know if my friends are dead or alive': Protesters march through Cardiff

Thousands have been killed in Iran

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3 d. ago Mystery remains after dad found dead in river after night out with friends

Nigel Stevens, 57, had been out with friends by a river before he was found dead two days later, and inquest heard

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4 d. ago Love Machines by James Muldoon review – the risks and rewards of getting intimate with AI

The sociology professor is suitably comfortable with AI helpers that he creates his own – it’s their inventors’ motives and unregulated environment he argues we should be concerned aboutIf much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them. A research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute who has previously written about the exploited workers whose labour makes AI possible, Muldoon now takes us into the uncanny terrain of human-AI relationships, meeting the people for whom chatbots aren’t merely assistants, but friends, romantic partners, therapists, even avatars of the dead.To some, the idea of falling in love with an AI chatbot, or confiding your deepest secrets to one, might...

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4 d. ago Love Machines by James Muldoon review – inside the uncanny world of AI relationships

A sociologist talks to the people putting their faith – and their hearts – in the hands of robotsIf much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them. A research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute who has previously written about the exploited workers whose labour makes AI possible, Muldoon now takes us into the uncanny terrain of human-AI relationships, meeting the people for whom chatbots aren’t merely assistants, but friends, romantic partners, therapists, even avatars of the dead.To some, the idea of falling in love with an AI chatbot, or confiding your deepest secrets to one, might seem mystifying and more than a little creepy. But Muldoon refuses to belittle...

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1 week ago Horror moment families learned police had mixed up friends and other was actually dead

The devastated parents of a 17-year-old boy spent three weeks grieving and planning his funeral - only for police to discover that he was in fact alive, in hospital

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1 week ago Pal’s desperate 999 call after man, 46, ‘murdered by love rival who dumped his mutilated body in landfill’

THIS is the desperate 999 call a friend made to report a man missing before he was found dead, naked and mutilated in a landfill. Cumali Turhan, 45, had been at The Globe pub in Chelmsford, Essex, before he disappeared in the early hours of November 19, 2024. Seven weeks after his friend made the call...

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1 week ago Pictured: Boxer, 18, who died trying to save his friend in Swiss bar fire

Benjamin Johnson, 18, a member of the Lausanne Boxing Club, died alongside at least 39 others on New Year's Eve as an inferno ravaged the popular Constellation bar in Crans-Montana.

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2 w. ago Anthony Joshua's emotional visit to funeral home after fatal car crash left two friends dead

Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital in Lagos after suffering minor injuries in a car crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that killed two close friends.

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2 w. ago Anthony Joshua's 'tormenting' struggle after surviving crash that killed pals

British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua, 36, is recovering in hospital after a car crash killed two of his closest friends who were pronounced dead at the scene

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2 w. ago Anthony Joshua car crash dead passengers named as close friends of boxer

Anthony Joshua was involved in a fatal car crash in Nigeria on Monday which claimed the lives of two others who have now been named, while various tributes have been paid to them on social media

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3 w. ago Pat Finn dead: Friends star dies aged 60 after secretly battling cancer

Legendary actor Pat Finn has died at the age of 60 after secretly battling cancer, it has been announced

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3 w. ago Mother pens heartbreaking letter to murdered son as she spends second Christmas without him after he was shot dead in Liverpool while riding bike with friends

Life 'feels pointless' now for Carolyn Cox after her son Ellis Cox was gunned down on June 23, 2024, close to the Liverpool Loop Line on the Liver Industrial Estate.

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3 w. ago Beloved YouTuber found dead in his home as friend makes grim discovery

Adam Williams, who is best known under his YouTube name Adam the Woo, died on Monday. Authorities found him unresponsive in his bed after a friend called 911, it was reported

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4 w. ago Family of Aria Thorpe, nine, who was stabbed to death say she was 'the most beautiful little soul' as they add: 'Our hearts are broken in a way we never imagined possible'

Aria Thorpe, who celebrated her birthday with friends just two weeks ago, was found dead at a property in Lime Close, Weston-super-Mare just after 6pm on Monday.

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