When a group of amateur investors on a Reddit messageboard began buying up stock in a video games retailer it forced huge losses on major Wall Street hedge funds that had bet against it. But following a trading frenzy the stock began to fall, almost as quickly as it had risen At the beginning of …
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Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, announced last week the platform will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users in an attempt to “turn down the temperature” on online divisiveness. Continue reading… Facebook has said it …
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The gigantically tall character in a wide-brimmed hat has become the latest meme to light up social media with speculation, fan art and barely concealed lust When Capcom launched a new trailer and demo for its forthcoming horror sequel Resident Evil Village at the end of January, the company probably didn’t realise it was about …
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Using animation, archive and clips from the movie franchise, Rodney Ascher’s genre-bending doc gives philosophers and kooks space to explain why we are living in a synthetic world With Room 237, a deep dive into theories about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, writer-director-animator Rodney Ascher practically invented a new sub-genre of documentary: the fathoms-five-low inspection of …
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In A Glitch in the Matrix, film-maker Rodney Acher speaks to people who are convinced that the world we’re living in isn’t real Rodney Ascher’s new documentary A Glitch in the Matrix opens, as so many nonfiction films do, with an interview subject getting settled in their camera set-up. In this instance, a guy named …
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Platform popular with US far right has faced an uncertain future after being essentially forced offline Parler, the social media platform favored by the US far right, has dismissed its CEO John Matze. Continue reading… Platform popular with US far right has faced an uncertain future after being essentially forced offline Parler, the social media …
Paying $14.99 a month for workout videos when you can find them free on YouTube might seem pricey, but Josh Taylor finds some advantages I abandoned my paltry selection of panic-bought fitness equipment and the hastily cobbled-together workout videos from my local gym fairly quickly over the course of Melbourne’s 2020 lockdowns. But there was …
The internet might not be as funny as real life but it is funny. We asked comedians to tell us how funny. Here’s what Sam Taunton said Years ago an electrician came around to replace the light fittings at my ex-girlfriend’s all-female sharehouse. He walked in, announced he’d forgotten his toolbox, asked to use the …
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Strategic shift beyond music content helps streaming service to grow advertising income by 29% to €281m Spotify recorded a doubling in podcast listening hours in the fourth quarter of 2020, as locked-down listeners hunting for entertainment tuned in to Michelle Obama and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, driving a Wall Street-beating 24% year-on-year increase …
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Lockdown helped company make £19.4bn but it has not stated how much tax it paid in the UK last year Jeff Bezos and the world Amazon made | Long Read Amazon’s UK sales soared by 51% last year to a record $26.5bn (£19.4bn) as people trapped at home due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns turned …
