Month: February 2022

TechScape: the taxman is starting to take notice of the NFT gold rush

In this week’s newsletter: as UK tax authorities seize their first NFTs, is government scrutiny finally on the way for the booming crypto market? Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here When world war three comes, the nuclear bombs drop out of the sky and humanity is wiped …

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Dystopian robot dogs are the latest in a long history of US-Mexico border surveillance

Activists have argued that the tools in use – drones and towers equipped with night vision and radar – make the region dangerous to migrants When the United States’ Department of Homeland Security announced in early February it was training quadruped “robot dogs” to help secure the US-Mexico border, the department’s spokesperson described the nearly …

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Pushing Buttons: from the Witcher to Uncharted, these are the best (and worst) games about love

In this week’s newsletter: unlike films or music, not many games are preoccupied with romance – who gets it right? Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian’s gaming newsletter. If you’d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in …

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Elon Musk’s brain chip company, Neuralink, faces animal abuse claims

An animal welfare group alleges that monkey test subjects endured ‘crude surgeries’ and ‘extreme suffering’ Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink is defending itself against claims that its researchers abused monkeys in the testing of its products. Neuralink – which hopes to create a revolutionary interface that would allow humans to control devices with their …

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‘This is rocket science’: micrometeorite collision blamed for NBN satellite internet outage

Some 46,000 regional users left without service for seven hours and more than 500 had no internet for two weeks Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing A micrometeorite slamming into a satellite was the likely cause of a seven-hour outage for NBN Co internet users in December, a Senate hearing has …

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‘Live in the future’: Zuckerberg unveils company overhaul amid shift to metaverse

CEO of company formerly called Facebook touts pivot at all-hands meeting as he faces investment concerns “Move fast”, “build awesome things” and “live in the future” were among Meta’s new internal values introduced by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, as the company grapples with growing pains in its pivot towards virtual reality and the “metaverse”. Speaking …

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Elon Musk donated $5.74bn in Tesla shares to charity last year

SEC filing does not disclose name of charity while analysts say ‘tax benefit would be huge’ Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, donated a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world’s most valuable automaker to a charity from 19 November to 29 November last year, its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed …

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Total War: Warhammer III review – swords, sorcery and symphonic metal

Windows PC (Game pass, Steam); Creative Assembly/SegaThis sprawling medieval fantasy brings together romantic and classical strategy game design with spectacular results When Game of Thrones ended, I promised myself I would never again become invested in a sprawling medieval fantasy where humanity makes a desperate last stand against an apocalyptic foe, at the onset of …

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US Amazon warehouse workers prepare for historic union vote

Labor board overturned first election over company’s unfair conduct, giving workers another chance to be the first Amazon facility in US to unionize Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have begun the rerun of a historic union election after the US labor regulator ruled Amazon’s conduct had interfered with a previous election in …

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