Month: December 2021

VR experience offers journey into US president’s nuclear bunker – video

Nuclear Biscuit, a simulated experience, allows US officials to wargame a missile attack and see the devastating consequences of their choices.  Players experience what the president would have to do in the event of a nuclear crisis: make a decision that would end many millions of lives – and quite possibly civilisation on the planet …

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Gaming is culture – even Fortnite has something to say about society

In the first edition of our gaming newsletter: why games, like all art, have the power to connect, entertain and cause change Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian’s brand new gaming newsletter. If you’d like to receive it in your inbox every weeek, just …

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You hate your job – what next? The two writers exploring toxic productivity

Out of Office, a book by Charlie Warzel and Ann Helen Petersen, explores the toxicity of productivity culture and why now is the best moment for change Ever wonder why, with every new piece of so-called productivity enhancing technology we adopt, we just end up with more, not less work? Slack was supposed to get …

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Dyson tells many of UK staff to work in office even after plan B guidance change

Vacuum cleaner maker claims large parts of business are impossible to carry out from home Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The vacuum cleaner maker Dyson has told many of its UK employees to continue working in the office, claiming that large portions of its business are impossible to carry out from …

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MPs call for online safety bill overhaul to protect children and penalise tech firms

Committee’s report says sweeping changes needed to tackle an industry that has become the ‘land of the lawless’ Britain’s online safety bill needs a sweeping overhaul to prevent children from accessing pornography, vulnerable people from being encouraged to commit self-harm and negligent tech chiefs from failing to protect users, according to a committee of MPs …

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‘15 minutes to save the world’: a terrifying VR journey into the nuclear bunker

Nuclear Biscuit, a simulated experience, allows US officials to wargame a missile attack and see the devastating consequences of their choices It became clear that things had gone terribly awry on this particular day when I saw that the most moderate option on the desk in front of me involved killing at least five million …

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Personal details of 80,000 South Australian public servants stolen in cyber-attack

State government employees advised to change passwords and monitor bank accounts after massive payroll data breach Records including the name, tax file number and banking details of almost 80,000 South Australian government employees may have been stolen in a cyber-attack, with workers advised to assume their personal information has been stolen. The South Australian treasurer, …

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Amazon faces scrutiny over worker safety after tornado strikes warehouse

Federal authorities investigate disaster in Edwardsville, Illinois, where six people died Questions over worker safety at Amazon are intensifying once again after a tornado struck an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday, leaving six people dead and another hospitalized. On Monday, the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration said it opened a workplace safety …

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Naming Elon Musk person of the year is Time’s ‘worst choice ever’, say critics

Publication cites Tesla boss’s influence ‘for good or ill’, but accolade is criticised over billionaire’s attitude to tax, unions and Covid Time magazine’s decision to make Tesla billionaire Elon Musk its person of the year for 2021 has been criticised because of his attitude to tax, opposition to unions and playing down the dangers of …

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