Month: May 2022

Can Abba really recreate the feel of a live concert using holograms 41 years after their last set?

This week the supergroup begin seven months of gigs in a purpose-built London arena… with the band members elsewhere Just over 41 years ago, Abba played their last concert together. It wasn’t a live show for salivating fans, but a short set for Swedish TV. A highlight was their recent hit Super Trouper, a song …

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YouTube removes more than 9,000 channels relating to Ukraine war

Exclusive: Platform takes ‘unprecedented action’ to address content guideline violations since invasion Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates YouTube has taken down more than 70,000 videos and 9,000 channels related to the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines, including removal of videos that referred to the invasion as a “liberation mission”. The platform is hugely popular …

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Crypto is starting to lose its cool – just look at El Salvador | Rowan Moore

Fantasies of a Bitcoin City have been undermined by the country’s huge losses in cryptocurrency To its evangelists, bitcoin is a frictionless, empowering form of money that liberates citizens of the world from the shackles of banks and national governments. To sceptics, the cryptocurrency is a tool of kleptocrats and gangsters, environmentally monstrous in its …

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TikTok and tiaras: the youngsters leading a new generation of royalists

A 70-year reign is being hailed in 60-second video clips to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee – winning over hundreds of thousands of followers Charlie Richardson, 19, known on TikTok as notaroyalexpert, has been working tirelessly over the past few weeks to update his online audience on the Queen’s recent appearances, as well as dispelling …

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‘I’m pretty sure he was checking his own phone at the time’: Monaris’s best phone picture

The photographer and Instagrammer looks back at the day under Manhattan Bridge when a hobby became a calling It was a moody January morning in Brooklyn, New York, when Monaris, whose real name is Paola Franqui, headed to a local pier to meet a group of strangers. The 100 or so she found there were …

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Elon Musk denies he sexually harassed attendant on private jet in 2016

Billionaire says report is ‘utterly untrue’ after allegation he paid $250k in 2018 to settle claim Elon Musk has denounced as “utterly untrue” claims in a news report that he sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016. Business Insider reported earlier on Thursday that the billionaire’s SpaceX paid $250,000 (£200,000) in …

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‘A catastrophic failure’: computer scientist Hany Farid on why violent videos circulate on the internet

‘Hashing’ would allow copies of videos to be removed from social media – but tech companies can’t be bothered to make it work In the aftermath of yet another racially motivated shooting that was live-streamed on social media, tech companies are facing fresh questions about their ability to effectively moderate their platforms. PaytonGendron, the 18-year-old …

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Gibbon: Beyond the Trees review – short, simple and lovely to play

PC, Nintendo Switch (version tested), iPhone/iPad; Broken RulesA noble environmental message provides the basis for this delightfully uncomplicated adventure, but elements of performance are amiss Lovely to play but sad to think about, this game follows three pastel-coloured gibbons from their natural treetop habitat through the lumber camps and human habitations that have been rapidly …

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Best podcasts of the week: Penn Badgley goes back to school for tales of teenage cringe

In this week’s newsletter: The Gossip Girl and You heartthrob explores adolescent angst through listener-submitted stories in Podcrushed. Plus: five essential celebrity podcast interviews Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Listening InWidely available, episodes weekly from Wed 25 MayThe Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan is the …

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