MPs want restrictions placed on the company, known as Russia’s Google, which also runs the Yango Deli grocery service Russia-Ukraine war: live news The government has been urged to restrict the UK operation of Russia’s biggest technology company amid concern over its ties to the Kremlin. Yandex, Russia’s equivalent to Google, is headquartered in Moscow …
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No one believed he could make a light gun that worked on modern TVs. But Andrew Sinden persevered with his dream to revive a dying game genre Almost every console and computer, from the Sega Dreamcast to the humble Amstrad CPC, once had its very own light gun. Whether you were shooting ducks with the …
Chinese-owned video platform blocks new content after Kremlin criminalises reporting of Ukraine invasion Russia-Ukraine war: live updates TikTok has imposed restrictions on its service in Russia, and Netflix has suspended streaming there entirely, as western companies continue to pull out of the country. Chinese-owned TikTok said it would block livestreaming and uploading of new content …
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Premium Android has good screen and camera, longer updates and recycled materials – but lacks wow factor The Galaxy S22+ is Samsung’s big-screen premium phone for 2022, offering top specs and good quality hardware, but little in the way of novel or exciting features. It’s a safe, solid device. With an RRP of £949 ($999/A$1,549) …
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The Russians are unexpectedly losing the battle on social media. But defeating Putin on the ground is another matter So is the conflict in Ukraine – as some of the world’s media seem to think, the “TikTok war” – or, more generically, “the first social media war”? As Russian tanks rolled into the country, videos …
It’s the most popular messaging service in Ukraine, and used by protesters of all kinds. Now it must find a way to make money In the days after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of his country, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, used his Telegram channel to send a defiant video message from the centre of the capital, Kyiv, …
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The British photojournalist on following the Kuch migration in the mountains in Iran It wasn’t navigating rocky paths, herding hundreds of animals or the prospect of spending 14 nights in a tent that Emily Garthwaite was thinking about on her first day on the Zagros mountain range. It was where she fitted within Hossein and …
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Social media platform is a popular news source for young adults, but misinformation is commonplace • Russia-Ukraine war: live news Trucks carrying large cylindrical containers sweep down a snowy road to a soundtrack of hollering and an alarming, if amateurish, caption: “RUSIA NUCLEAR BOMB”. The video was taken down, but not before it received 18m …
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In the new series Super Pumped, Joseph Gordon-Levitt brings ‘ruthless’ Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick to life along with his extreme career highs and lows In dark jacket, grey sweater and white undershirt, Travis Kalanick was relaxed in comfy chair, coffee mug before him, shooting the breeze with late-night TV host Stephen Colbert. Then came a …
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Trading platform boss says “‘crypto is too small for Russia’ and more focus should be placed on the banking system The founder of Binance, the cryptocurrency trading platform, has dismissed fears that virtual money could be used by the Kremlin to evade sanctions as he claimed that “crypto is too small for Russia”. Changpeng Zhao …
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