Month: February 2021

Clubhouse app: what is it and how do you get an invite to the audio app Elon Musk uses?

The exclusive invitation-only social networking app is a hybrid of conference calls, talkback radio and Houseparty Part talkback radio, part conference call, part Houseparty, Clubhouse is a social networking app based on audio-chat. Users can listen in to conversations, interviews and discussions between interesting people on various topics – it is just like tuning in …

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Romeo & Juliet review – Verona is a dystopia in trailblazing tragedy

Available onlineSam Tutty and Emily Redpath star in an ambitious new version of Shakespeare’s play created with digital wizardry The warring houses of Montague and Capulet are living in a “near future” in this cutting-edge digital production, set in a disturbed world in which rich families and urban gangs have been forced to live, cheek-by-jowl, …

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Facebook moderators ‘told not to discuss working conditions’

Workers in Dublin office claim US company used NDAs to try to stop them talking to Leo Varadkar Facebook has been accused of using nondisclosure agreements to try to build a “wall of secrecy” and prevent its moderators from discussing working conditions with Leo Varadkar, the Irish tánaiste (deputy PM). The moderators claim that Facebook …

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Google apps feel strain as firm’s privacy standoff with Apple drags on

Google failure to update more than 80 apps to comply with Apple’s ‘nutrition label’ requirement means users are being told apps are out of date Google’s privacy standoff with Apple has lasted so long that even the company’s own apps are complaining about it. Since early December, Apple has required any iOS app to include …

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Pvt Chat review – refreshingly grownup take on virtual sex

This mumblecore drama about a man’s obsession with an online sex worker is uncomfortably funny and semi-insightful In a 2016 Vanity Fair article, Nancy Jo Sales wrote about prostitution going mainstream, describing a new economy of young people selling their bodies to pay off student loans or just to get by in the tough economic …

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Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal to star in The Last of Us TV series

The Game of Throne actors will take on the roles of Ellie and Joel in HBO’s adaptation of the blockbuster video game Game of Thrones actors Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal – who also stars in Disney’s Star Wars spinoff The Mandalorian – have been cast in HBO’s television adaptation of blockbusting video game series …

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Instagram removes anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr for false Covid-19 claims

Moves comes as platforms attempt to crack down on misinformation and conspiracy theories about Covid vaccines The prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr has been booted from Instagram for repeatedly sharing false claims about Covid-19 and the safety of vaccines. Continue reading… Moves comes as platforms attempt to crack down on misinformation and conspiracy theories …

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Clubhouse app: what is it and how do you get an invite to the audio app Elon Musk uses?

The exclusive invitation-only social networking app is a hybrid of conference calls, talkback radio and Houseparty Part talkback radio, part conference call, part Houseparty, Clubhouse is a social networking app based on audio-chat. Users can listen in to conversations, interviews and discussions between interesting people on various topics – it is just like tuning in …

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Salesforce shifts away from in-person work: ‘The 9-to-5 workday is dead’

Most workers for San Francisco’s biggest private employer will come into an office just one to three days a week Salesforce has become the latest tech company in San Francisco to signal a transition away from in-person work, declaring the “9-to-5 workday is dead”. The city’s largest private employer announced on Tuesday it would permanently …

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