Corinne and Luke, both 31, met online in August 2013 when they bonded over a video game. They now live together in London In August 2013, Corinne was living with her family in north London and working in a dull admin job. “I was playing a lot of video games as an escape,” she says. …
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Xbox One/Series X/S, PC, PlayStation 4/5; Remedy EntertainmentWriter Alan Wake searches for his missing wife while tackling a malevolent force disguised as darkness in this clunky but atmospheric reboot A flashlight often spells vulnerability in horror games; it’s something to grasp desperately when the bullets run dry. In Alan Wake – Remedy’s 2010 very Stephen-King-inspired, …
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The site rejected my request to pay for new locks and refused to discuss it further Can you please ask Airbnb how it allowed a fraudster to stay in my house and steal my speakers and keys? I rent out my home in east London whenever I go back to Ireland to visit family. In …
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This April, Sophie Zhang told the world about her employer’s failure to combat deception and abuse. Her advice? No screenshots, lawyer up – and trust yourself Two years ago, I did something I almost never do: I put on a dress. Then I dropped my phone and other electronics off at the home of friends …
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State reports 1,612 new local coronavirus cases and eight deaths amid testing of updated phone app About 70,000 Victorians have downloaded the updated Service Victoria app as the state pushes ahead with regional trials for the vaccinated economy. The smartphone app allows Victorians to view and download vaccine certificates for the double jabbed, which can …
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Facebook executive wouldn’t say if he believed platform bore responsibility for amplifying baseless claims of stolen election Frances Haugen: Facebook whistleblower – and modern hero? The Facebook executive Nick Clegg took a damage-limitation tour of US political talkshows on Sunday, but remained evasive over questions about the social media giant’s contribution to the deadly attack …
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Demand for capacity grows on back of hit Netflix shows, online games and more The breakout success of the Korean drama Squid Game has prompted a local broadband provider to launch legal action to force the maker, Netflix, to help pay for the huge surge in traffic, the latest flashpoint in the argument over who …
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts I imagine that a couple of hundred years ago the idea of recording and playing back audio or video was as ridiculous as the idea seems now of recording and playing …
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Following the publication of the National Space Strategy last week, photojournalist Jonny Weeks explores how the south-west is primed for Britain’s first sovereign rocket launch “When we first started, people would laugh at us,” says Melissa Thorpe as she guides a group of visitors around an exhibition in a vast hangar at Newquay airport. “But …
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Teenage boys’ easy access to violent sexual images is creating a crisis for them – and for women, argues the anti-porn campaigner Violence against women is never far from the news, but currently it is high on the agenda – and porn features again and again as a factor. From the murder of Sarah Everard …
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