23 h. ago How and why parents and teachers are introducing young children to AI

Guardian readers share the ways and reasons they are preparing their children and students for a future that may necessitate familiarity with generative artificial intelligenceSince the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative artificial intelligence has trickled down from adults in their offices to university students in campus libraries to teenagers in high school hallways. Now it’s reaching the youngest among us, and parents and teachers are grappling with the most responsible way to introduce their under-13s to a new technology that may fundamentally reshape the future. Though the terms of service for ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other AI models specify that the tools are only meant for those over 13, parents and teachers are taking the matter of AI education into their own hands.Inspired by a story we published on parents who are teaching their children to use AI to set them up for success in school and at work, we asked Guardian readers how and why – or why not – others are...

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27 h. ago The big picture: a Chad gymnast scores top marks for determination

Behind Antonio López Díaz’s image of the inspirational Achta Derib is a story of how small changes can transform livesThe wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And yet Achta Derib’s pose in this photograph by Antonio López Díaz, a finalist in the professional sports category at the Sony world photography awards, suggests reserves of determination that will carry her across continents to perform at the highest levels of her sport.For Díaz, who has been documenting her journey since 2019, Derib’s story “stands as a symbol of resilience”. She was one of hundreds of girls from Chad who joined a pioneering gymnastics class at a school outside the capital, N’Djamena. Set up in 2016 by a Chadian Jesuit priest and a Spanish club president, with support from Spain’s Ramón Grosso Foundation, the class was the first of its kind in the central African country, where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line. Chad lacked gymnastic...

Politics

67 h. ago The heartbreaking true story that inspired the 'Ask for Angela' campaign

The daughter of Angela Crompton, who died in 2012, has expressed frustration after a BBC investigation found many bars didn't respond properly to the codeword.

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2 d. ago Dying for Sex release date, cast, plot and trailer: Everything to know about the Michelle Williams drama

Dying For Sex is inspired by a podcast delving into the true story of Molly Kochan who was diagnosed with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer.

Events

4 d. ago Your House review – scavenger hunt through a delightfully difficult puzzle

iOS, Android, Mac, PC (version played); Patrones & EsconditesInspired by a remarkable true story, this book-like journey through a deserted house filled with secret panels and hidden passages presents some ingenious conundrumsYour House is inspired by a remarkable true story. Back in the 2000s, a rich New York couple paid architect Eric Clough to renovate their new apartment, with the slightly odd request that a poem about their family should be hidden away in one of the walls, like a time capsule. Inspired by this, Clough took it upon himself to make a few unorthodox modifications to the dwelling without his clients’ knowledge.Just over a year after the couple and their children had moved in to their home, Clough sent them a cryptic note. This clue led them to a hidden panel, behind which was a book, which in turn led them on a scavenger hunt through their own apartment. Clough had crammed the rooms with hidden messages and complex puzzles that it took the family weeks to solve...

Politics

6 d. ago Is there no end to Labour's appetite for jollies? Angela Rayner 'asked to go on a private safari' during an official trip to Africa

The Deputy Prime Minister is said to have asked if she could add the personal trip to the itinerary for a visit to Ethiopia in February.

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6 d. ago Is BBC Three's Crongton based on a true story? Inside ‘shocking’ inspiration behind new drama

The gritty inner-city drama is likely to resonate with many young people, but is it based on real life?

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8 d. ago George Foreman movie leaves fans 'stunned' after boxing icon's death

Netflix film Big George Foreman has proven a hit with fans since added to the streaming platform and has been praised for its inspiring true story and life affirming message

Sport

1 week ago West End musical tells story of Briton who fell in love with an American during 9/11 atrocity

Brit Nick and his American wife Diane Marson met when their plane was grounded in Newfoundland on 9/11. They fell in love and their story has inspired a West End romantic musical.

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1 week ago The untold story of the supermodel's dress that inspired Princess Diana's iconic wedding gown... and it's now on sale for an eye

No one who witnessed Princess Diana's marriage to Charles, then Prince of Wales, in 1981 could forget the moment her dress was revealed to the world.

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1 week ago What’s it like to have a serial killer for a father? Melissa Moore knows — and her story is being told

The eight-episode series ‘Happy Face’ for Paramount+ is inspired by the true story of Melissa G. Moore and the shocking discovery that her father was the infamous serial killer known as Happy Face. Andrea Cavallier reports

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1 week ago What’s it like to have a serial killer for a father? Melissa Moore knows

The eight-episode series “Happy Face” for Paramount+ is inspired by the true story of Melissa G. Moore and the shocking discovery that her father was the infamous serial killer known as Happy Face. Andrea Cavallier reports

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1 week ago Is Protection based on a true story? The inspiration behind gritty new ITV drama

New ITV drama Protection sees witness protection officer DI Liz Nyles (Siobhan Finneran) investigate the murder of a family in witness protection.

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2 w. ago The ‘Happy face’ killer left 8 women dead and his daughter traumatized. A new TV show will bring their story to life

The eight-episode series “Happy Face” for Paramount+ is inspired by the true story of Melissa G. Moore and the shocking discovery that her father was the infamous serial killer known as Happy Face. Andrea Cavallier reports

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2 w. ago Toxic Town true story as Netflix viewers left in tears by horrific real

Netflix's drama, Toxic Town, starring the likes of Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood and Robert Carlyle, is inspired by the true story of a group of British mothers who fought for the truth

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2 w. ago Happy Face: this drama about a serial killer’s daughter is so mind

At times, this true-crime drama feels like a meta satire of an industry that milks private pain for entertainment. It is, however, no such thing You know the feeling: you’re watching a shocking docudrama about a toxic waste scandal, or the baseless prosecution of 555 sub-postmasters, or the fraudulent founder of a blood-testing biotech company, and you start thinking – did this all really happen? So you do some digging online. Usually, it turns out there has been a mild massaging of the truth in the name of narrative efficiency: a couple of characters conflated, a timeline slightly rejigged. Only very occasionally (once?) will a case of dramatic licence result in a hysterical media storm, a global debate about the ethics of dramatisation and Netflix being hit with a $170m lawsuit. And yet it is almost unheard of to settle down to watch a series based on real events – or, in the case of Paramount+’s Happy Face (from Thursday 20 March), “inspired by a true life story” – and be confron...

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2 w. ago Is Adolescence based on a true story? Inspiration behind real

Adolescence is streaming on Netflix and it tells some harrowing truths about the pressures faced by young people of today.

Politics

3 w. ago Travellers' green belt land grab: Councils are bombarded with appeals to clear 'illegal pitches'

MailOnline data shows more and more enforcement notices are being issued against traveller pitches, often consisting of one or more mobile homes erected on private land.

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3 w. ago ‘What’s wrong with us? : Novelist Virginia Feito on our morbid obsession with true crime

Her debut Mrs March is being adapted by Elisabeth Moss, and her new novel has already been snapped up for the screen. Virginia Feito reveals the real-life inspiration for her shocking story of a psychopathic Victorian nannyWhatever people make of Virginia Feito’s new book, a scabrous, morbidly funny murder ballad, they can’t say they weren’t warned. Thanks to several instances of real and imagined violence to men, women, children and babies – not to mention a deer, a duck and three whippets – Victorian Psycho lives up to its name, and to the first sentence of its prologue: “Death everywhere.”“It’s not like a surprising twist that builds slowly over the pages,” the 36-year-old Spanish writer says of her second novel. “You know where we’re going from the very start.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago PSG stars show their true colours with response to heartbreaking Liverpool loss

Liverpool beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the Champions League round-of-16 first leg on Wednesday night, with Harvey Elliott scoring a late winner after a dominant display from the French side

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