Hollywood actors strike over AI fears: Tech & Science Daily podcast

Hollywood actors strike over AI fears
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Fears about the use of Artificial Intelligence have broken into yet another industry: Hollywood.

Around 160,000 actors have gone on strike over pay and fears that they may be replaced by digital replicas.

The Screen Actors Guild wants guarantees from studios and film makers that AI and computer-generated faces and voices will not be used to replace actors.

The European Space Agency is trying to alter the path of a satellite that’s running out of fuel, and is due to hurtle towards the Earth.

ESA says it’s going to attempt a first-of-its-kind manoeuvre, using the remaining fuel to direct the Aeolus satellite, so it falls into the sea in late July.

The young London tech company Nothing, has just released its second smartphone, called the Nothing Phone 2, and it is once again impressing fans and critics, largely with its design.

The Evening Standard’s technology journalist David Phelan tells Tech & Science Daily why the phone has been well received, and who he thinks its target audience is.

Protests have broken out on TikTok after a court in Italy cleared a school caretaker of groping a young girl 'because it lasted for seconds'.

The girl, who was 17 and at school when it happened, said the man approached her from behind, put his hands in her knickers and slightly lifted her in the air as she pulled up her trousers.

A panel of judges said in their ruling that the whole thing lasted “about five to 10 seconds" and was done without "libidinous or lusty intent".

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