Thea-Mai Baumann had used the account for more than a decade but it suddenly vanished, taking all her work with it An Instagram user with the handle @metaverse last month found herself blocked from her account, which featured a decade of her life and work – after parent company Facebook changed its corporate name to …
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(Exbleative; Future Friends Games; Xbox One, PC)Soar across alien vistas powered only by kinetic energy in this interplanetary search for the mysterious, life-giving monolith Exo One transposes the humble, tactile pleasures of rolling a marble along a gulley or skimming a pebble across a clear lake into a planet-straddling adventure told with all the humming …
From the very first game on the console to a lonely space-rodent and a rejuvenated Spider-Man, these are our best picks for the PS5 One of the most quietly significant games of the 00s has been transformed here into a visually incredible, endlessly rewarding dark fantasy. Make your way through imposing medieval castles, a horrendous …
Technology industry issues warning before MPs and peers publish report on online safety bill Introducing criminal sanctions for tech executives in the online safety bill could be copied by non-democratic regimes, the industry has claimed before an influential report this week. A joint committee of MPs and peers scrutinising the bill will publish its findings …
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Analysts expect 71m VR and AR devices will be sold in 2025, and a new ecosystem of apps is coming Trying on clothes without stepping into a changing room, seeing your menu choices in 3D, viewing an art gallery’s contents outdoors and, of course, catching a Pokémon. This is the world of augmented reality, and …
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The year ahead for the social media giants, podcasts and games – and will there be yet another hyped return for virtual reality? Twitter has an unfortunate reputation as the punchbag of social media. It has failed to deliver the huge returns of bigger rivals such as Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram, it hasn’t been the …
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Stress tips, oysters and buying your own star… Back in the 80s they had big plans for what the humble telephone was going to do for us all ‘Some thoughts on the phone,’ the Observer Magazine cover of 2 November 1986, with its nod to Rodin’s The Thinker, was not, in fact, a philosophical treatise …
Demi Skipper began her journey in May 2020, offering a bobby pin for trade on Craigslist. This month, she was offered a house in Tennessee After a year and a half of pouring blood, sweat and tears, Demi Skipper has successfully taken one single hair pin and traded it up all the way to a …
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Implosion of online trading hubs highlights pitfalls of what one legal expert describes as ‘tulipmania’ investments Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Andrew Yeo doesn’t know what’s happened to tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency belonging to hundreds of …
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The richest person in the world often attracts headlines for the wrong reasons. But his upending of traditional car-production methods should not be forgotten As I write, Tesla, the manufacturer of electric vehicles (EVs), has a market capitalisation of $1.051tn, which makes it the world’s sixth most valuable company by market cap. Tesla shares are …
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