Month: March 2022

Elizabeth Williamson’s book on the 2012 elementary school shooting is a near-unbearable, necessary indictment of Facebook, YouTube and the conspiracy theories they spread Even in a country now completely inured to the horrors of mass shootings, the massacre at Sandy Hook remains lodged in the minds of everyone old enough to remember it. Ten years …

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Videos of the heists are all set to one song – Simon Latorre’s Chutero Yo Soy – which is now an anthem for those in the trade High in the Bolivian Altiplano, Challapata is where the road from La Paz splits: one way to Potosí and the other to Uyuni and the salt flats. It …

‘Risky, profitable, exciting’: TikTok fuels Bolivia’s contraband car craze Read More »

The LA-based photographer on the sunbather he stumbled across on a walk to Beachwood Canyon during the pandemic If you looked through Bradley Meinz’s living room window, you’d see the Hollywood sign. The photographer lives in LA’s Beachwood Canyon, and in February 2020 he was taking daily hikes to the landmark and back. News of …

‘There was this lone, shirtless guy on the street’: Bradley Meinz’s best phone picture Read More »

Change comes after high court ruling that Uber should be regarded as a contractor, not an agent Uber fares across the UK are to rise sharply from Monday night when VAT of 20% will be applied to rides booked via the app. The change comes after a high court ruling last December that Uber could …

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Ukraine’s previously booming tech sector has shown impressive resilience in face of Russian invasion Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates “We had a plan for when the war started,” says Bogdan Nesvit, the 30-year-old co-founder of Ukrainian tech developer Holy Water. “We relocated the female part of the team to Poland. With men not allowed to leave …

Keyboard warriors: Ukraine’s IT army switches to war footing Read More »

Tech companies took swift action to back Ukraine, a watershed moment for an industry with control over information Less than a day after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, the head of security at Meta (formerly Facebook) announced the company would no longer accept ad money from Russian state media outlets like Russia Today and …

How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its power – and its threat Read More »

Facebook parent company tells workers they will no longer receive free valet service and meals will be delayed Lavish onsite perks may be a thing of the past for employees at Meta, who will now have to do their own laundry due to company cutbacks. The parent company of Facebook informed its employees it would …

Meta employees left to do their own laundry as perks get cut Read More »

Most abusers don’t have criminal records and won’t get flagged by a check, possibly leading to a false sense of security As of this week, Tinder users will be able to run criminal background checks on their potential dates. The feature – launched in partnership with Garbo, a background check provider that aims to make …

Tinder will now offer criminal background checks, but it won’t fix their safety problems Read More »

The Google-owned platform said the invasion of Ukraine fell under its violent events policy and violating material would be removed YouTube announced on Friday that it had begun blocking access globally to channels associated with Russian state-funded media, citing a policy barring content that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events. The video platform had …

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Print media were once the lifeblood of the gaming community, and now a new generation of lovingly assembled periodicals are bringing the scene back to life If you were into video games in the 1980s or 90s, then along with your computer, your QuickShot joystick and your tape player, there was one other vital component …

Paper view: the return of video game magazines Read More »