Month: March 2021

Donald Trump video clip removed from Facebook ‘in line with block’

Former US president has been banned from the platform since early January after the violent insurrection of the Capitol Facebook on Wednesday removed a clip of an interview with Donald Trump from its platform, according to the former president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump. In a post shared to her Instagram account, Lara Trump, who is a …

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It Takes Two review – joyful family adventure for socially distanced duos

Electronic Arts, PS4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PCIspired by family-in-peril adventures like Frozen, this engrossing if didactic puzzler uses old-fashioned teamwork to great effect One of the big cultural stories of lockdown is how friends are staying in touch and having fun through game worlds. The time is right, then, for the latest two-player …

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Bottega Veneta ditches Instagram to set up ‘digital journal’

Fashion world will watch with interest after brand replaces social media posts with magazine Issue Bottega Veneta has been the hottest fashion house on social media since the British designer Daniel Lee arrived at the Milanese label less than three years ago. The model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley posted no fewer than 39 selfies featuring her “Pouch” …

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Infinitum: Subject Unknown review – solo time loop echoes lockdown

This iPhone-shot sci-fi drama with cameos from Ian McKellen and Conleth Hill is impressively realised, though the plot ultimately frustrates You’ve got to admire wife and husband film-makers Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart. Stuck in their London flat at the start of the pandemic, the pair wrote a sci-fi script together: a Groundhog-Day-meets-The-Matrix tale of a …

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‘Fake’ Twitter users rush to Amazon’s defense over unions and working conditions

Similar accounts have been used before during periods when the company was facing increased scrutiny and criticism A surge of “fake” Twitter accounts have emerged to defend Amazon and push back against criticism of working conditions at the company amid a fiercely fought union election for the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. Continue reading… Similar …

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Amazon union vote count set to start for Alabama warehouse workers

Campaign viewed as one of the biggest and most consequential unionization drives in recent America history Vote counting is set to begin in an election to determine whether Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, will form a union in what is viewed as one of the biggest and most consequential unionization drives in recent America …

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Apple to let repairers in Australia and New Zealand sign up to spare parts program

Scheme expanded to 38 more countries as tech giant faces heat on the right to repair iPhones and Macs Apple will allow independent repairers in Australia and New Zealand to sign up to a new program this week which will provide access to its tools and spare parts, as the company faces heat on the …

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In Trumpian move, Jeff Bezos reportedly orders Amazon chiefs to hit back at critics

The Amazon News Twitter account and executive Dave Clark have been lashing out at critics online – just as Alabama workers vote on unionization Say what you will about the relative merits of the continued existence of Amazon, the humble online bookstore that might end up being the last company in the world at this …

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Suspected Russian hackers gained access to US homeland security emails

Intelligence value of SolarWinds hacking of then acting secretary Chad Wolf is not publicly known Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of homeland security (DHS) and members of cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, the Associated Press (AP) has learned. The intelligence value …

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Selfie review – droll Gallic eye on slaves to the algorithm

Online metrics are pillow talk, and digital secrets go public in this tragicomic portmanteau of five stories about our relationship with technology As ever-evolving technologies produce instant gratifications and fresh horrors, Selfie sees modern life as a tragicomic minefield fraught with absurdities. This French anthology film delivers biting social critique with a side helping of …

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