The Guardian Weekly - November 03, 2023
The Guardian Weekly - November 03, 2023
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In this issue
November 03, 2023
Hope or horror?
The great AI debate dividing its pioneers
5 mins
Bots and robbers What is AI, and will it make us all redundant?
What is artificial intelligence?
3 mins
Rewards v risks It's not luddism to rein in Al's undreamed-of power and potential
Will it destroy us, or will it save us? An age-old debate between tech optimists and tech pessimists that has played out over centuries as the steady march of human progress delivers new technologies, from the wheel to the printing press to the smartphone. Today it is a conversation being conducted with increasing urgency about artificial intelligence.
3 mins
Ghosts of Gaza Phones flooded with news of dead
Last Sunday morning, phones belonging to the 2.3 million people trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip slowly came to life again, inundated with updates, messages and missed calls after the lifting of a 36-hour neartotal communications blackout imposed by Israel.
3 mins
A matter of time Israeli troops are now on the ground in Gaza - but for how long?
The heavy fog that cloaked Gaza's agony on the morning after Israeli troops arrived was burned away by the sun - only to be replaced by the smoke of hundreds of bombs, and between the blasts, there was a new sound: machine gun fire. The taking of Gaza territory had begun.
2 mins
Human shields How has Hamas been accused of using them?
In audio released by the Israel Defence Forces, a member of the Military Intelligence Directorate can be heard calling a Palestinian man in Gaza urging him and his family to evacuate south. But the man says it is hard to comply because Hamas is blocking roads, and \"sending people back home\". He adds that Hamas is shooting at Palestinians trying to leave the area.
2 mins
Party protest Labour faces Muslim backlash at Gaza stance
'I was a Labour party member for 31 years. The Palestine crisis was the end of the tether for me. I cannot tolerate Keir's policies any more,\" said Waheed Akbar, the former mayor of Luton.
2 mins
'I feel guilt' Deserters urge Russian soldiers to join them
Men tell of escape to Armenia and feelings ofremorse as growing numbers of troops flee criminal war’ in Ukraine
3 mins
Las Vegas is model for gambling sector purge
Ukrainian officials seeking to oust Russian actors from the country's gambling industry are going to emulate the methods of the US authorities in the 1980s when they rooted out the Italian mob from the casinos of Las Vegas.
2 mins
How Jokowi's son could go from food seller to vice-president
Indonesia's next vice-president could be a familiar face. Gibran Rakabuming Raka, 36, is the son of the current president Joko Widodo and his swift rise to the top of the country's political echelons is proving controversial, raising questions about dynasty-building and the strength of the country's democracy.
3 mins
Newcomers threaten Patagonia's paradise
Anational park has drawn hundreds of people tosettlein the remote area, witha potential threat to wildlife and a way of life
5 mins
The small town that's teaching Japan about immigration
An unassuming industrial town in Japan, far from the busy tourist hubs of Tokyo and Kyoto, is in the middle of an unprecedented social transformation. Õizumi, rather than the country's capital, is at the forefront of Japan's foreigner-friendly future.
3 mins
'Stick with the fight,' urge young gun control activists
Following 2023's deadliest mass shooting in the US that occurred in Lewiston, Maine, last week, young gun control activists are once again speaking up against the failures of lawmakers amid an all too familiar tragedy.
3 mins
Root and branch - The battle to save a city's trees
What started outasasmall protest escalatedintoa decade-long battle between Sheffield counciland hundreds of ordinary people, who decided totake radical action to save their neighbourhood trees
10+ mins
Fast and furious
Caster Semenya is the Olympic gold-winner whose elevated testosterone levels led people to question her right to compete. With a few choice words for World Athletics, the middle-distance runner talks about labels, leaked medical records and how lowering her hormones affected her body
10+ mins
A poverty so vicious that only a grim new vocabulary describes it
It starts slowly. A food bank crops up inside your local mosque. You notice more sleeping bags on the walk to work. Over time, the signs seem to grow.
4 mins
This malaria vaccine will transform our battle with the mosquito
Want to guess the most dangerous animal in the world? When my team asked children in Edinburgh during a public outreach event with schools, they said sharks, alligators, spiders and lions.
3 mins
Even the French are giving up on arthouse
Independent cinema risks being sacrificed on the altar ofmarket forces. From Jules et Jim to Blue Is the Warmest Colour, that would be aterrible loss
3 mins
Breezy does it
From Barcelona to Bohemia, artists are using arange of innovative techniques to capture and harness the power of mighty winds
3 mins
Nature's way - A gripping, semi-historical imagining of the memories and experiences of a French botanist in colonial Africa
Readers of David Diop's previous novel, which won the International Booker prize, probably won't have forgotten the experience. At Night All Blood Is Black is narrated by a young Senegalese soldier recruited to fight for France in the first world war and brutalised in the trenches.
3 mins
The Guardian Weekly Newspaper Description:
Publisher: Guardian News & Media
Category: Newspaper
Language: English
Frequency: Weekly
The Guardian Weekly is an international English-language news magazine based in London, UK. It is one of the world's oldest international news publications and has readers in more than 170 countries.
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