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What a Douglas Adams classic can teach us about the age of AI

As a spillover of the application of artificial intelligence (AI) across many fields, questions about the nature and forms of intelligence have acquired new urgency. In many ways, this has revived an old philosophical puzzle: what exactly does it mean to think, to know, or to understand?

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Panic on the streets of north London as Arsenal freeze again in January

In today’s Football Daily: Arsenal and a familiar winter wobble

The Guardian - UK

Apple has managed to turn my favourite Sci-Fi idea into a reality

Apple's Ron Huang and Areeba Kamal explain how live translation has given the AirPods superpowers

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy review – flimsy extravaganza needs deeper thought

The madcap sci-fi tale is retold on a lavish scale, complete with in-show merch, but it never really blasts off

The Guardian - UK

Inside the mad genius of making an immersive Hitchhiker’s Guide stage show

Douglas Adams’s trippy, plotless voyage into the cosmic and absurd is this week becoming an immersive theatre production and, according to its producer Arvind Ethan David, it makes perfect sense

The Independent UK

Kākāpō: The chonky parrot that can live almost 100 years

This flightless nocturnal parrot is only found in New Zealand.

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I adore Revenge of the Savage Planet's lush, lurid playground of alien absurdity – but it's not for everyone

Finding busy work at the end of the universe.

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20 Years Later, A Forgotten Sci-Fi Adventure Deserves Better Than Its Tepid Reception

When it was released in 2005, 'Hitchchiker's Guide to The Galaxy' was poorly received. It didn't deserve that.

Inverse

The Guardian view on the meaning of life: Easter and the ultimate question

Editorial: From Verdi to Douglas Adams, artists and writers have wrestled with why we are here. The Christian festival gives us pause to reflect

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk heaps praise on AfD’s Alice Weidel during live talk on X

X owner and far-right politician appear to agree on everything, as Musk faces accusations of meddling in German election

The Guardian - UK

CFMoto Debuts First-Ever V4 Engine, Doesn't Tell Us a Single Thing About It

V4 engines are all the rage right now. Whether it's Ducati, KTM, or Yamaha, everyone's got to have one to compete at the tippy top of the superbike spear. So it's no wonder that newcomer, but heavy-weight player, CFMoto would be not only developing a V4 platform but saving its…

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Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel

The Famous Computer Cafe aired in California in the early 1980s.

PC Gamer

The Ultimate Guide To 50 Sci-Fi Essentials Under $25 On Amazon

Epic adventures, mind-bending tales, and futuristic thrills, all perfectly priced for your next journey.

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Towel Day 2024: What's the deal with towels in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?'

An explanation of Towel Day and its meaning in the world of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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The Guardian - AU

Pulp, page-turners and pure joy: the ultimate summer reading list, picked by you

After we published our list of the best beach reads, we asked readers for their suggestions – including ‘mercifully brief’ fantasy, raucous comedy and a crime thriller that’s ‘tense as hell’

Evening Standard

Highgate Cemetery to charge £25,000 for burial spots close to grave of Karl Marx

The cemetery is the resting place of George Michael, George Eliot and Douglas Adams as well as Karl Marx

The Guardian - AU

The ultimate summer reading list: 15 sci-fi and fantasy novels to escape into

From Douglas Adams and Liu Cixin to Terry Pratchett and Claire G Coleman, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

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Grok is Elon Musk’s new sassy, foul-mouthed AI. But who exactly is it made for?

On November 4, X owner Elon Musk unveiled his new AI chatbot Grok: a sarcastic ChatGPT alternative supposedly “modelled” after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of Musk’s favourite books.

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Alan JW Bell obituary

Director of Last of the Summer Wine and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who favoured the use of film in making TV programmes

Evening Standard

White Holes by Carlo Rovelli review: a miniature book for anyone who likes to think

This is a miniature masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett review – a fantasist’s formative years

The Discworld creator’s short tales from the 70s and 80s reveal a young talent bursting with invention and wit

Fortune

The 3 books and series that most inspired Elon Musk

We are learning more and more just how much video games, science fiction, and fantasy shaped Elon Musk's worldview—and dreams for the future.

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: how Hitchhiker’s Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago

In unseen notes to be published in a new book, Douglas Adams foresaw the success of a host of technology we now take for granted

PC Gamer

ULTRARAM's inventor tells us why the revolutionary RAM replacement could slay dumb memory DIMMs

Clever enough to have been designed by a super-intelligent shade of blue.

The Guardian - UK

In brief: 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams; Alchemy; Mercury Pictures Presents – review

A fascinating glimpse into the mind of the humorist and sci-fi writer; a rip-roaring historical thriller; and a subversive novel set in golden-age Hollywood

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