Month: April 2022

Information released under data protection laws sheds light on apparent effort to undermine Canadian research group Citizen Lab When Downing Street was recently named as the suspected victim of a phone hack by the United Arab Emirates using the Israeli-made spyware, Pegasus, few were surprised at who was behind the discovery. The Citizen Lab at …

Private equity executive sought to undermine NSO critics, data suggests Read More »

He’s been incubating his latest work for the past two years. Now the Canadian film-maker is auctioning it off to the crypto community – and what an incredible bargain it is Nothing on earth is quite as depressing as the moment a celebrity starts getting into NFTs. There you’ll be, quite happy following them on …

Body shock: why Cronenberg’s kidney stones could be the saviour of NFTs Read More »

What is driving the box-office success of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, reboots of classic games such as Crazy Taxi and even talk of a Sega Cinematic Universe? Sega, it seems, is having a moment. The veteran publisher’s movie sequel Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has become a huge box office success, hitting $300m in revenue, despite …

The joy of Sega: why Sonic is such a tonic Read More »

Unicef says virus is ‘canary in the coalmine’ that shows up the gaps in vaccination campaigns for preventable illness Measles cases have surged nearly 80% worldwide this year amid disruption caused by Covid-19, the UN has said, warning that the rise of the “canary in a coalmine” illness indicated that outbreaks of other diseases were …

Measles cases surge nearly 80% in wake of Covid chaos, with fears other diseases could follow Read More »

The Facebook parent company is continuing a major rebrand of its products and focusing more heavily on the metaverse Meta shares soared in after hours trading on Wednesday, despite the company reporting slow revenue growth amid global economic uncertainties and the war in Ukraine. The company’s reported total revenue rose 7% to $27.91bn in the …

Meta shares soar despite reported slow first quarter growth Read More »

Face-to-face gatherings produce more ideas – and more inventive ones – than videoconferencing, say researchers As if the endless muting and freezing, the need for shelves lined with high literature, and the constant fear of a colleague wandering on screen unclothed were not enough to worry about, researchers have found that Zoom stifles creativity. Meeting …

Workers think less creatively in Zoom meetings, study finds Read More »

Acquisition agreement allows Musk to tweet about deal but not to disparage firm or its representatives Elon Musk has engaged with tweets criticising Twitter employees despite promising not to “disparage” the company or its representatives while he completes the deal to acquire the social media platform. The world’s richest man agreed to restrictions on his …

Elon Musk engages with tweets criticising Twitter staff Read More »

Nintendo Switch; NintendoIt’s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it’s as entertaining as ever For all their polymath complexity, all their melding of artistic and cinematic and technical achievements, timeless video games sometimes boil down to one very good idea. In 2006 Wii Sports’ idea …

Nintendo Switch Sports review – the return of slapstick fun Read More »

For his own good, my soon-to-be-18-year-old needs to understand sport. It’s the only way he’ll survive. Unfortunately, 90s video games are of limited use My son Charlie will be 18 soon. Like all Scottish males before him, he will be dropped on a Hebridean island with nothing but a rusty knife and his own anger. …

I’m trying to educate my son in sports video games, but he is not having any of it | Dominik Diamond Read More »

Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent When the job of a young east coast-based analyst – we’ll call him James – went remote with the pandemic, he didn’t envisage any problems. The company, a large US retailer for which he has been …

‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you Read More »