Truth Social’s launch will come 13 months after the former president was banned from Twitter and Facebook Donald Trump’s new media venture plans to launch its social media app Truth Social on 21 February, according to an Apple Inc App Store listing. Truth Social, the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) alternative to Twitter, is …
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The ex-newsreader bears all to David Cameron’s Brexit right-hand-man in a new podcast about the life lessons to be found in traumatic experiences. Plus: a chilling true-crime show about murders in doughnut shops Desperately Seeking Wisdom With Craig OliverIf your life has “hit the buffers” in the pandemic, as it did for David Cameron’s former …
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Data privacy watchdog says websites make it difficult for users to refuse cookies France’s data privacy watchdog has fined Google and Facebook a combined €210m (£176m) for hampering users’ ability to stop the companies tracking their online activity. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) said on Thursday it had fined Google a …
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The swapping, collating and posting of nude images of women without their consent is on the rise. But unlike revenge porn, it is not a crime. Now survivors are demanding a change in the law Ruby will never forget the first time she clicked on the database AnonIB. It is a so-called “revenge porn” site …
The downfall of the founder of Theranos is a story of hubris and lies – and a parable for a financial system that is badly broken The story of how Elizabeth Holmes came to defraud some of the richest and most powerful investors in the US, only to end up this week facing decades in …
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Nintendo Switch, PC; Ghost Time GamesThis endearing adventure feels like a fever-dream Flash game you discovered in the 00s and could never find again Like many great adventures, Tux and Fanny begins on a quiet afternoon. Our two oddly named protagonists decide that they would like to play a game of football, but disaster strikes: …
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Nathan Dane spent six years honing his version of the BBC’s defunct text-based information service If you find news websites too overwhelming, too fast and too full of distractions then this might be the solution: a recreation of the BBC’s Ceefax service featuring up-to-date headlines, an accurate weather map and the latest stock market prices. …
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In this week’s newsletter: the gaming calendar is packed this year – and you don’t even need to worry about getting your hands on a next gen console 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 …
The diversified technology giant generated revenues of $1bn a day in its last financial year The striking part about Apple’s $3tn valuation is that it does not look obviously wrong. Or, rather, it does not appear out of line with the racy values the US stock market places on technology companies. There is no need, …
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Spokesperson says account ‘suspended for violating rules on platform manipulation and spam’ Twitter has permanently banned the popular news aggregation service Politics For All, in a sign of how the social media platform has substantial power to deprive news outlets of their audience without warning. A spokesperson said the account was “suspended for violating the …
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