Valve’s newly announced handheld console promises to put the latest PC games in your pocket. But do they belong there? It looks like Valve has done it again. The company that surprised everyone by pivoting from game developer to digital shopkeeper with the launch of Steam, then leapt into virtual reality with the HTC Vive …
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President says he hopes platform won’t take his earlier remark ‘personally’ and instead act to save lives Joe Biden has tempered his assessment that social media platforms are “killing people” by hosting misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines, saying Monday that he hoped they would not take it “personally” and instead would act to save lives. …
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I can’t persuade the ride-hailing company something is wrong even though its bill is absurd Last week I booked an Uber from our favourite pub to my home in north London – a trip of 1.75 miles I have taken several hundred times. I was riding with two friends whom I regularly drop off on …
Venomous snakebites cause tens of thousands of deaths each year. But homegrown apps are coming to the rescue – and protecting reptiles from reprisals When 12-year-old Anay Sujith felt a sharp sting in his leg while asleep in his hut in a village in Kerala, “I started yelling and woke up my parents,” he recalls. …
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Future fund scheme will see the Treasury co-invest with private enterprise in bid to make UK a ‘science superpower’ Fast-growing firms working on “gamechanging” technology, including in areas such as life sciences and clean energy, are being invited to apply for a slice of a £375m fund aimed at fostering innovation in the UK. The …
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Announcement highlights cyberthreat posed by Chinese government hackers as US trying to curb Russia-based hacks The Biden administration has blamed China for a hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software that compromised tens of thousands of computers around the world earlier this year. Related: UK and allies accuse Chinese state-backed group of Microsoft hack Continue …
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US says Microsoft Exchange hack shows ‘aggressive behavior’ by China UK and allies accuse Chinese state-backed group of Microsoft hack Explainer: what is the Microsoft hack? 3.30pm BST This week marks six months that Democrats have held the majority in the Senate, and it kicks off with a lot of legislating on the joint pieces …
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First human spaceflight of Blue Origin’s sub-orbital New Shepard rocket to launch in Texas How billionaire space race could be giant leap for pollution The billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will attempt his most ambitious delivery on Tuesday, when he accompanies an octogenarian aviation pioneer, a college student and his own brother Mark into space …
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Britain has joined the US and other allies in formally accusing China of being behind the cyber-attack In March, tens of thousands of organisations around the world discovered their private internal discussions had been cracked open and lain bare by a group of Chinese hackers. Four previously undiscovered weaknesses in Microsoft’s Exchange software, known as …
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British foreign secretary says Beijing will be held to account if it does not stop ‘systematic cyber sabotage’ Britain and its allies have formally accused Chinese state-based hacking groups of being behind the exploitation of an estimated 250,000 Microsoft Exchange servers worldwide earlier this year. The UK foreign secretary said the cyber-attack amounted to “a …
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