Analysis: Musk’s past musings about Twitter show desire to reshape essence of its business model Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for more than $40bn It turns out he wasn’t in “goblin mode” after all. Last week Elon musk, in his characteristically antic manner, tweeted a series of suggestions for improving Twitter after he was …
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Tanya DePass did not know that a tweet would eventually lead to a career based around making a difference for underrepresented people in games One day in 2014, Tanya DePass was feeling the rage. She had been playing games for most of her life, since the time of Pong, ColecoVision, and the glory days of …
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On social media, a tendency to connect disparate news stories is causing many of us to lose our sense of reality As a child, in the back of the car on drives along the motorway, I would look for connections between the number plates on surrounding cars. How many started with an odd number? How …
E-commerce firm blames move on wage increases, hiring of workers and warehouse construction Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs by adding a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to the fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services. The Seattle-based company said the increase, which will take effect from 28 …
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Billionaire tech entrepreneur makes cash offer for microblogging site Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share in cash. More to follow… Continue reading… Billionaire tech entrepreneur makes cash offer for microblogging site Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share in cash. More to follow… Continue …
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In this week’s newsletter: What is it like to suit up and hand out vigilante justice as an actual caped crusader? Plus: five of the best comedy talkshow podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The Superhero ComplexWidely available, episodes weeklyThe phrase “real-life superhero” may sound …
Cybersecurity officials said the evidence suggests Russia is behind the tools – configured to target North American energy concerns Multiple US government agencies issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of the discovery of malicious cyber tools created by unnamed advanced threat actors that they said were capable of gaining “full system access” to multiple industrial …
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What’s behind the indestructible appeal of the robotic snack? A minute before midnight on 21 July 2021, as passengers staggered sleepily through Manchester airport, I stood wringing my hands in the glow of a vending machine that was seven feet tall, conspicuously branded with the name of its owner – BRODERICK – and positioned like …
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The comedian and former face of Tip Top bread in New Zealand shares her favourite videos, including an orchestral mishap and Obama’s ‘anger management translator’ Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast! I have an all or nothing relationship with the internet. I am either giving it my undivided attention …
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Private contractor running service sent email to applicants containing more than 170 email addresses The Home Office’s visa service has apologised for a data breach in which the email addresses of more than 170 people were mistakenly copied into an email circulated last week. More than 170 email addresses were accidentally copied into a message …
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