The Facebook CEO won’t talk to the Guardian. So we built a Zuckerbot and interviewed it instead What does Mark Zuckerberg care about? The 37-year-old tech executive has a wife, two kids, $110bn , and near absolute control over a group of companies – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp – that shape the information, entertainment, and communication …
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After another disastrous year for the company, experts and activists see clear ways to tackle its problems This year the public saw an alarming side of Facebook, after a huge leak of internal documents revealed the extent of vaccine misinformation and extremism on the platform, a two-tier system of who gets to break the rules, …
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With emulators available even on smartphones, dipping into your playing past is easier than ever Nick Bowman gestures to the old-fashioned gaming consoles littering his desk. “Whenever I am having kind of a crappy day, I pull out the Nintendo,” he says, pointing. “That’s a licensed one. I also have a Raspberry Pi that I …
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Holiday family gatherings in Meta’s virtual world would probably include robot avatars and a digitized appearance by Mariah Carey If you witnessed Mark Zuckerberg’s unveiling of the “Metaverse” this year, you’ll be familiar with his utopian vision: a future in which we abandon our woefully outdated reality in favor of his virtual world. After all, …
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With telecoms barely working, a plunging currency and young people emigrating, it’s a bleak Christmas for weary Lebanese In Lebanon’s year of loss and deprivation, simple pleasures have steadily drained away along with its fortunes. But amid a crisis renowned for breaking new ground, few Lebanese had thought their ability to stay in touch was …
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Our 20 favourite pieces of the year After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the legacy of colonialism, when I got to Oxford I realised how many British people still failed to see how empire had shaped lives like mine – as well as their own Continue reading… Our 20 favourite pieces of the …
The company will send out a software update that will prevent its games from being played on center consoles while the vehicle is in motion Under pressure from US auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while its vehicles are moving. The National Highway …
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A virtual present can be bought hassle-free as late as Christmas morning, and with a bit of creativity, it can feel just as special as a physical gift Postal delivery deadlines have well and truly passed, and the window of time for a last-minute gift run has just about shut. Add rising Covid-19 cases to …
US chipmaker responds to backlash after telling its suppliers to avoid region at centre of human rights abuse allegations The US chipmaker Intel has apologised for telling its suppliers not to source products or labour from Xinjiang, a province that human rights groups and governments including the US allege uses forced labour, after facing a …
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Prototype uses carousel of canisters to create flavour samples on hygienic film over flatscreen TV A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multisensory viewing experience. The device, called Taste the TV (TTTV), uses a carousel of 10 flavour canisters that spray in …
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