I’m determined to hold out for as long as I can, but these days you need a QR code for everything from ordering at a restaurant to boarding a flight I’ve always gotten by fine without owning a smartphone – until now. Covid has made my already obsolete 90s-designed Nokia flip-phone nearly useless. I’m suddenly …
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This wildly hagiographic documentary about the billionaires fiddling with their massive rockets will have you cringing all the way into suborbital space For a documentary created with the Washington Post, a newspaper owned by a company controlled by Jeff Bezos, the new Discovery+ special Space Titans has an impressive amount of Elon Musk in it. …
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A new analysis reveals that an estimated 818,000 climate misinformation posts received 1.36m views everyday The scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is “staggering” and “increasing quite substantially”, a new analysis of hundreds of thousands of posts has found. A report released on Thursday by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent watchdog group, and …
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Analysis: The question now is what effect the US move will have on Israel and on foreign governments who use NSO’s spyware The US commerce department’s blacklist is usually reserved for America’s worst enemies, such as Chinese companies that have been accused of aiding human right abuses, and Russians who proliferate biological and chemical weapons …
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Decision against company at heart of Pegasus project reflects deep concern about impact of spyware on US national security interests NSO Group has been placed on a US blacklist by the Biden administration after it determined the Israeli spyware maker has acted “contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the US”. The …
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Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook, also calls misuse of user data as unethical as child labour A former adviser to Mark Zuckerberg has said democracy “may never recover” if Facebook does not change and has called for misuse of users’ data to be labelled as unethical as child labour. Roger McNamee, an early …
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It takes special design to keep players exploring, and game developer Arkane, known for its refined aesthetic, has some unexpected sources This year, there is one game world I have enjoyed exploring more than any other. We’re so spoiled for visually rich open environments these days, it takes something special to keep players immersed, to …
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Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: The Jack Ma saga sheds light on wealth, politics and fame in today’s China Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here After a long hiatus and endless gossip, Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma, has finally resurfaced. Last month, he was spotted meeting business partners in …
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We have never been more reliant on the internet – yet Pamela Paul still gets DVDs in the post and buys CD players. Why? Because we have lost more to the digital era than we realise, she says Pamela Paul must be one of the last subscribers to the branch of Netflix that allows its …
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Delphi, an online AI bot, promises to answer any moral question users pose. We put it to the test Corporal punishment, wearing fur, pineapple on pizza – moral dilemmas, are by their very nature, hard to solve. That’s why the same ethical questions are constantly resurfaced in TV, films and literature. But what if AI …
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