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A rejuvenated Grand Palais, major new exhibitions and a suburb with high hopes for the 2024 Summer Olympics: Paris has been doing itself up for its biggest sporting event in years. This week we've shown how Paris is being transformed for the hundreds of thousands of visitors arriving during this very special summer. Also: Why tourism is driving growing numbers of people in Spain onto the streets in protest. Coman Hamilton,dpa trends & features \-------------------- TOP STORY: How Paris is reinventing itself for the Olympics Words: 948 Images: 9 Locals in Spain tell tourists to 'go home' as ove...
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Telecommunications provider Vodafone is looking to invest some €140 million ($151 million) in artificial intelligence (AI) systems this year to improve the handling of customer inquiries, the company said on Thursday. Vodafone said it is investing in advanced AI from Microsoft and OpenAI to improve its chatbot, dubbed TOBi, so that it can respond faster and resolve customer issues more effectively. The chatbot was introduced into Vodafone's customer service five years ago and is equipped with the real voice of a Vodafone employee. The new system, which is called SuperTOBi in many countries, ha...
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Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has stopped using fax machines, the Bundestag press office announced in response to a dpa enquiry. The Bundestag administration has ensured that all work processes and activities for which fax machines were previously used can now be carried out completely digitally, the press office said. "The fax machines have therefore been dismantled in recent weeks." In November last year, the Budget Committee called on the Bundestag administration to remove all fax machines from its premises by June 30, 2024, at the latest. Some of the machines still st...
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Japan in the 13th century: The fearsome Mongol Empire threatens the island of Tsushima. An invasion is imminent. We slip into the role of the young samurai warrior Jin Sakai. With a brave troop of warriors, he confronts the attackers, but all his valour is in vain - the samurai suffer a devastating defeat. As one of the last survivors, we now hold Tsushima's fate in our hands. Since its initial release as a PlayStation exclusive in 2020, "Ghost of Tsushima" has sold millions of copies. The launch of "Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut" the following year included a wealth of improvements, inclu...
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A remote-controlled car is expected to fetch more than a quarter of a million pounds at auction to become the “most expensive” in the world, according to experts. The vehicle, which has a top speed of just under 80 km/h, is a scale model of the Ferrari F2002 driven by Michael Schumacher when he became Formula One world champion in 2002, and is a third of its size. The car will be auctioned with a guide price of £200,000 ($253,000) at the UK's Whittlebury Park, Silverstone, along with 60 other items of motor racing memorabilia on Thursday, three days before the British Grand Prix. Schumacher si...
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Can artificial intelligence write a decent film script? Swiss filmmaker Peter Luisi wanted to find this out and turned his AI-generated script into a film with real actors. In doing so, he wanted to spark debate about the use of AI in the film industry. Now, he's found his film being kicked out of a London cinema where it had been due to be screened in late June. The Prince Charles Cinema in Soho got cold feet after the film's promotion was met with much criticism on social media. "It's a shame," Luisi told dpa. "I don't think bowing to these comments is the right way to go. But I respect this...
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Thirty-six lawmakers from across the European Union have called on member states to vote against plans by the bloc's executive to require tech companies to monitor their platforms for child sexual abuse content, citing data security concerns. In an open letter made available to dpa, the politicians said they were convinced the proposed measures are incompatible with EU basic rights. The European Commission in 2022 presented the proposed Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, designed to curb the spread of material showing the sexual abuse of children. The law would make it compul...
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Berlin (dpa) — Players and critics have rarely been so unanimous: The action adventure "Hellblade" is considered a modern classic in video game history. The battle of the Celtic warrior Senua against the Nordic mythical world became a major hit for the studio Ninja Theory in 2017 and won numerous awards. Seven years on, the studio, now owned by Microsoft, is releasing a successor. Can "Hellblade II" build on the success of its predecessor? Not your typical action hero The focus of the game is again on Senua. After the Celtic warrior has gone through hell and defeated the goddess Hela, the next...
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Metallica is set to take to a virtual stage in "Fortnite" later in June for a series of live concerts for players of the cult battle royale game. To ring in the start of season four, three live performances are set to take place at different times on June 22 and 23, Universal Music said, announcing the "METALLICA:FUEL.FIRE.FURY" exclusive for "Fortnite" players. "James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo from Metallica are the Icons of Season 4," Fortnite said, announcing various festival-themed additions to the game. The US band is the first to be experienced in the game ...
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Berlin has quite literally rolled out a green carpet for football fans around its central Brandenburg Gate this summer as it joins other cities hosting the 2024 Euros men's football championship. This week on dpa trends, we've been releasing travel guides on host cities like Leipzig, Dortmund, Munich and Frankfurt - everything football fans need to know about the stadium, where to find public screenings and what landmarks are most worth seeing between matches. Coman Hamilton,dpa trends & features \-------------------- EUROS 2024 - HOST CITY GUIDES: Berlin, a Euros guide: Green carpet rolled ou...
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