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Jeeves, please fetch me a glass of port. Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/ZDNETWhen you think of ChatGPT, what comes to mind?The latest tech fad? A get-rich-quick moneymaker for some and a lose-your-job-quick worrymaker for others?Perhaps you've even experienced a tinge of mere general creepiness.Also: The best AI chatbots: ChatGPT and other noteworthy alternativesFor me, there are three distinct groups of humans reacting to generative AI -- the Fearful, the Experimenters, and the Capitulists. (Those last ones are…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSometimes, there’s just no beating a good plot twist. David Fincher’s grisly 1995 noir Se7en, which marks its 25th anniversary today, is celebrated for many things, among them its shocking final twist.But even upon repeat viewings, many people don’t notice the subtle clues left earlier in the film, which tipped their hand towards Se7en’s climactic reveal.Foreshadowing can be a fine…

It looks like the world won't be able to produce enough lithium to feed the accelerating EV revolution. Not by a long way. And while we see all manner of alternative battery technologies in our line of work, it's not clear that within the next 5-10 years there'll be a high-density, high-powered, safe, cheap, long-life, stable, environmentally responsible, road-homologated, wide-temperature-range, lithium-free battery alternative that makes it out of the lab and into automotive-grade, giga-scale production. Lithium is…

Photo: Disney+Episode six of Andor provided one hell of a payoff to the heist that’s been brewing over the course of the last couple episodes of the Disney+ series. “The Eye,” directed by Susanna White with a script from Dan Gilroy, is likely to go down as one of the greatest hours of Star Wars committed to screen.The Diego Luna-led, rebellion-era tale from Tony Gilroy has really set itself apart and we’re only halfway through!The episode opens on the morning of the Aldhani cell’s heist, in a brief exchange of ideologies…

Riding a city bike comes with two certainties: thieves will target you and tourists will walk in your path. AirBell addresses both issues by discretely hiding one of Apple’s AirTag trackers inside a small mechanical bell with a loud and pleasant ding.Bicycle theft is an unfortunate reality in many large cities, especially in Amsterdam where I live with my family of five. We use bikes as our primary means of transportation every day, rain or shine. We can’t afford to be without them. As such, I’ve already fitted a few of…

The thirst for gold has long been a force of evil in cinema, and the latest action piece from stuntman turned director Jesse V Johnson falls under its glittering spell, interweaving vicious greed with the wreckages of war. Set during the second world war, Hell Hath No Fury revolves around a coveted sack of stolen Nazi gold, its location known only to SS general Von Bruckner (Daniel Bernhardt) and his French lover Marie (Nina Bergman).As the war rapidly marches towards its conclusion, the once radiant Marie is punished by…