Such an update would be another signal that Covid lockdown entertainment boom is over Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Spotify is expected to report this week a significant slowdown in the number of new subscribers in the first quarter, the latest pandemic winner to signal that the lockdown entertainment boom is …
The bosses of Tesla and Amazon want to take humans to Mars and beyond – but won’t show basic humanity on Earth Elon Musk’s SpaceX just won a $2.9bn Nasa contract to land astronauts on the moon, beating out Jeff Bezos. Related: Revive the US space program? How about not | Nicholas Russell Continue reading… …
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The takeaway service may have felt like a lifeline during lockdown, but its ambitious vision will dramatically change the way we eat Shukran Best Kebab – the finest Turkish restaurant in the Seven Sisters area of north London, according to some people (although it is surrounded by fierce rivals to the throne) – joined Deliveroo …
The UK government is finally taking a look at the sale of the chip designer to US firm Nvidia, but why not just buy a controlling interest? Last September, Nvidia, the American manufacturer of graphics processing chips, and the Japanese company SoftBank announced an agreement under which Nvidia would acquire the British chip designer Arm …
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Tech boss ‘proud’ to be working with space agencies as astronauts begin six-month mission Four astronauts on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft have successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month mission. Frenchman Thomas Pesquet is the first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut to fly in the billionaire tech entrepreneur’s …
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Why not applaud the explosion of literacy in texts and posts? Better to welcome rather than vilify a tool that can play a part in learning I heard you on the radio the other day, explaining why you thought the proposed European Super League was a bad idea. I must say I was surprised, as …
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Readers on the row over text messages between James Dyson and Boris Johnson about a tax waiver for people coming to Britain to work on ventilators Gaby Hinsliff jokes about patriotism moving “in mysterious ways”, with the “great British patriot” James Dyson taking his “clean out of the country” (A lot of people pitched in …
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Cryptocurrency falls below $50,000 as White House looks to bring levy on investment gains into line with income taxes Speculators in Bitcoin have been left nursing heavy losses after reports Joe Biden is planning to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to tackle inequality and finance trillions of dollars in higher social spending. The cryptocurrency …
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A silly and dated new attempt to transport the classic fighting game to the big screen is a late-night drunk watch at best Configuring one’s expectations before settling down to watch the latest big (and small) screen adaptation of Mortal Kombat is something of a process. The largely wretched game-to-movie subgenre carries with it little-to-no …
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I was a pupil of Bill Broderick, at the Royal Liberty school, where I enjoyed his maths lessons. From somewhere, he acquired a stock of ancient mechanical calculators, so old that you had to manually turn wheels to set each individual number – but we loved them. And in a school where the rod was …
