Modern TVs gather data that can be monetised. How much of this surveillance can you avoid without turning your smart TV dumb? Watching TV feels like a benign pastime, but as all TVs become “smart” – connected to the internet via your router – they are gaining the ability to watch you too. As soon …
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Facebook’s plans to build a $10bn virtual reality world were ridiculed yet the rest of Silicon Valley has serious Fomo and is piling in Once upon a time, a very long time ago – until Thursday 28 October 2021, to be precise – the term “metaverse” was known only to lexicographers and science fiction enthusiasts. …
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Pay-monthly models are catching on across a wide range of businesses – including food and even home insulation Hollie Wright spotted an opportunity. Working in property management, she came across a company that needed to furnish a home for an employee moving in for a few months. What if they could rent everything from one …
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The World Press Photo award winner on an image taken in unfamiliar territory Shooting with an iPhone, says French photographer Frédéric Noy, is like “mild psychotherapy. Sometimes, you get stuck. Taking a few pictures with an iPhone is like a liberation. A reset, a moment of reflection. You see things differently.” Noy arrived in Nur-Sultan, …
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The digital marketplace for NFTs grew to an estimated $22bn last year but companies face challenges monitoring stolen art When Lois van Baarle, a Dutch artist, scoured the biggest NFT marketplace for her name late last year, she found more than 100 pieces of her art for sale. None of them had been put up …
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As part of his drive to use tech to close social divides, the California Democrat has written a book, Dignity in the Digital Age Shortly after Silicon Valley sent him to Washington, Ro Khanna visited “Silicon Holler”, a name coined by a colleague, Hal Rogers, for the fledgling tech sector in eastern Kentucky. The two …
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Voice messages provide the intimacy and sensory richness of a phone call without the burden of an immediate response A friend of mine met his wife on Twitter a few years ago. Because he was away travelling at the time, they didn’t go on a real-life date until two months into their courtship. Initially, his …
Jack, 8, became enamoured with Joe Danger but Apple iOS updates left mobile game defunct, prompting his father to seek developer’s help An eight-year-old boy has inspired a developer to relaunch a popular mobile game after it became defunct, leaving his father desperate to find a solution. Jack, who was diagnosed with autism, became enamoured …
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Doing a test with new technique could cost a 10th of a PCR and has been as reliable in small-scale trial Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Scientists have developed a highly sensitive Covid test that relies only on low-tech kit and a smartphone, which could be used as a quicker, cheaper …
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Apple surpasses analysts’ predictions with 11% higher revenues compared with last year despite supply chain issues and Omicron surge Apple reported record sales in the holiday quarter, beating estimates as it benefited from high iPhone demand in China and withstood constraints caused by supply chain disruptions and the Omicron variant. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, had …
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