Month: April 2021

Alphabet: revenue soared for Google owner as Covid brought more people online

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Company exceeded Wall Street’s expectations with $55bn in revenue, even as it continued to face landmark antitrust lawsuits Revenue for Google’s parent company, Alphabet, jumped by 34% on the previous year in the first quarter of 2021, the company announced on Tuesday, fueled in part by a sustained surge in ad sales during a pandemic …

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‘Self-driving’ cars could get green light for use on UK motorways this year

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Automated lane-keeping systems likely to be allowed only when traffic is moving slowly Motorists could legally allow their cars to “self-drive” on British motorways later this year – but only slowly, the government has announced. Drivers could soon be allowed to read a newspaper or watch a film via the car’s built-in screen in periods …

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Apple iOS 14.5 update includes ‘app tracking transparency’ feature

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Setting means iPhone users can stop advertisers following their digital lives – to the ire of Facebook Users of iPhones can now prevent advertisers tracking them across their apps, after the release of the latest software update from Apple introduced the controversial feature despite the protests of Facebook and the advertising industry. The update, iOS …

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Tesla reports record quarterly profit as electric car sales boom

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Car company makes $438m on revenues of $10.39bn Delivery doubled to 184,800 vehicles in early 2021 Tesla announced a record quarterly profit on Monday as sales of its electric vehicles boomed in the first three months of year. Related: Tesla crash: investigators ‘100% sure’ no one driving car in fatal Texas incident Continue reading… Car …

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Always take the weather with you: 100 years of forecasting broadcasts

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In the century since the first on-air report in 1921, meteorologists have – almost – got the science of forecasting down to a fine art Exactly 100 years ago today, at 10.05am on 26 April 1921, an unassuming cleric and academic, Rev William F Robison, the president of St Louis University, made history as the …

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The lockdown habit that’s hardest to break: using an iPad as a babysitter | Emma Brockes

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How am I supposed to wean my children off screens when they know I’m addicted too? It started, last March, as an act of necessity – sticking the kids on iPads all day so I could make a hard deadline that fell six weeks into lockdown. There was no way around this; at five years …

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‘In the game, I knew myself as Hannah’: the trans gamers finding freedom on Roblox

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37m people use the gaming platform every day in search of adventure – and for teenagers exploring their gender identity, it is also a place of liberation When she was a child, Hannah discovered two portals to other worlds. The first was her Nintendo 64, which could transport her to the dark dungeons of Zelda …

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