Month: October 2021

Dirty work: film, books, games and more to help with the daily grind

From Office Space to the Rakes’ 22 Grand Job, Guardian critics suggest culture to cope with the pressure, politics and crushing ennui of earning a living Fashions in workplace design have changed since Office Space. When Mike Judge released his cult comedy of unhappy software programmers in 1999 – two years before Ricky Gervais launched …

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Why detective video games are the perfect way to experience a mystery

Detective fiction tells a story pieced together by some clever person – and in a video game, that’s you In one of her best books, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie puts these words into the mouth of her least favourite character, Hercule Poirot: “Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The …

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Our society is troubled. Beware those who blame it all on big tech | Nesrine Malik

The push for online regulation risks absolving the right of responsibility for the toxicity they continually stoke Every time a dramatic, unforeseen political event happens, there follows a left-field fixation that some out-of-control technology created it. Whenever this fear about big tech comes around we are told that something new, even more toxic, has infiltrated …

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‘We’re all climate journalists now’: how the weather took over everything

From the business section to the food magazine, Guardian editors are becoming focused on one dominant story Once upon a time, it was really only environment journalists who covered the climate crisis. At the Guardian, this is rapidly changing, as the emergency sprawls into more and more aspects of our daily lives, from food to …

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Microsoft Surface Go 3 review: small Windows 11 tablet can’t keep up

Beautiful, well-made design does not hide the poor performance and battery life at this price Microsoft’s smallest tablet PC gets Windows 11, newer chips and a small price cut but really needed more to make it worth the investment. The Surface Go 3 has a tempting starting price of £369 ($399/A$629) – £30 less than …

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Frances Haugen to testify to MPs about Facebook and online harm

Whistleblower and critic of Mark Zuckerberg will give evidence to MPs scrutinising the online safety bill The Facebook whistleblower is to give evidence to MPs and peers scrutinising the online safety bill, amid calls for a toughening up of the landmark legislation. Frances Haugen has triggered a deep crisis at Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire …

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Five questions in Westminster for Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen

MPs and peers to pick brain of former Facebook employee in connection with draft online safety bill Frances Haugen brings her searing assessment of Facebook to Westminster on Monday with an appearance at the joint committee scrutinising the draft online safety bill. The former facebook employee has provoked an onslaught of criticism of Mark Zuckerberg’s …

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Facebook rolls out campaign to fight misinformation ahead of Australian election

Social media giant teams up with newswire AAP to push videos encouraging voters to critically examine facts Facebook and the Australian Associated Press newswire service will roll out “check the facts” videos over the next month as the social media giant prepares for a federal election campaign that could be filled with misinformation and disinformation. …

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