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Janus Films handout film still: THE BEAST Directed by Bertrand Bonello. The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely ?erase? their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Le?a Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay).

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Léa Seydoux and George MacKay dazzle in shocking sci-fi film The Beast

Bertrand Bonello's twist on a Henry James novella from 1903 may be the most indirect critique of technology ever made. This film is memorable and absolutely terrifying, says Simon Ings

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FEE8WC Seoul, South Korea-November 15, 2015; Men playing in the outside ?Baduk? that is the Korean name for Go. November 15, 2015 Seoul

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New book explores how games shape the world – for better or for worse

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Engaging new book explores how vital mathematics is to map-making

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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Michael Crichton and James Patterson's novel Eruption fails to thrill

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How to take on AI's challenge to ideas about what can be conscious

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Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon alongside other members of the Indigenous-led Ceibo Alliance.

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Amazonian activist Nemonte Nenquimo tells her story in a potent memoir

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

The author of All Systems Red, the latest pick for the �鶹��ý Book Club, on why her novella takes on the thorny topic of what a machine intelligence might do, if it could make its own choices

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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