‘I got this call: do you want to audition for a show about video games? It sounded exactly the thing a dweeb with round glasses could do’ I was a single mother and had just launched my own production company in the midst of a recession. My son Harry was 10 and for Christmas in …
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Like many people, I’ve long been addicted to using Jeff Bezos’s company. But now it seems it really is time to leave it alone Oral hygiene chews for petite dogs. Space-saving storage bags. Disposable face masks. High-protein small-breed dry dog food. Non-drowsy antihistamine. Behold my recent Amazon purchases! As you can see, I live a …
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Why are young people imagining themselves as the protagonist in fictionalised versions of their lives? Staring longingly out of a window watching the sunset across the New York skyline, or sitting on a balcony while Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey plays softly in the background. These are just a couple examples of a TikTok …
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ONS survey shows proportion of older people going online has shot up from 29% in 2013 to over half in 2020 The proportion of people aged 75 and over using the internet has nearly doubled in the last seven years, official data shows. Figures compiled by the Office of National Statistics show that while there …
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Smart-home devices like thermostats and fridges may be too smart for comfort – especially in a country with few laws preventing the sale of digital data to third parties You may have a roommate you have never met. And even worse, they are nosy. They track what you watch on TV, they track when you …
National Labor Relations Board found that Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa were terminated last year after circulating a petition Amazon illegally fired two employees who advocated for better working conditions during the pandemic, the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found. The online retailer last year terminated the employment of Emily Cunningham and Maren …
Maggie Kelly went looking for secondhand clothes and a crib and found the mother tribe It was that special brand of 2020 pessimism and a hefty dose of first-mum nerves that turned me in the pregnancy Grinch. Everything was new, overwhelming, and expensive. List upon list grew with every 3am bolt from the blue. Cribs, …
South Korea firm promises service and software support as it shifts focus to more profitable businesses South Korean electronics manufacturer LG has decided to wind down its mobile phones unit after admitting defeat in the global smartphone market. LG said on Monday it had made a “strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone …
Experts urge users to secure accounts and passwords after breach exposes personal details of more than 500 million people Australians are being urged to secure their social media accounts after the details of more than 500 million global Facebook users were found online in a massive data breach. The details published freely online included names, …
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Ex-president marks holy day with brief, abusive statement Trump ‘money bomb’ raised millions from unwitting donors Donald Trump is reportedly working on a social media platform of his own, after being banned from Twitter and Facebook for inciting the Capitol riot. Related: Dominion: will one Canadian company bring down Trump’s empire of disinformation? Continue reading… …
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