Month: May 2022

Fifa believes it can make great sims without EA – but it should heed the fate of Championship Manager

The story of Eidos’s cult football management sim shows the limits of brand recognition – and suggests Fifa would have been better off sticking with Electronic Arts They think it’s all over … it is now. The lucrative corporate marriage that brought us 30 years of annual football simulations, and made billions of dollars in …

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Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like

Musk’s comment comes as Tesla’s massive Shanghai ‘Giga-factory’ pushes its workers to the limit to meet production targets amid an ongoing pandemic lockdown there How do you become the richest man in the world? In Elon Musk’s case, part of it involves making workers in China put in hours that would be unacceptable according to …

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Unchain Me review – Dostoevsky inspires secret mission on the streets of Brighton

Brighton festivaldreamthinkspeak’s timely new production on inequality and abuse of political power offers its audience a choice: complicity or compliance? We are instructed to meet at a secret Brighton location for this site-specific show by the company dreamthinkspeak. For some of us that invites the usual anxieties: when will we be told of our meeting …

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Sonos launches cheaper Ray soundbar and new voice control system

Own-brand voice recognition update can replace Google or Alexa for faster, more private music commands Sonos, the wireless home-audio specialist, is launching a lower-cost model of its popular TV soundbars alongside its own new voice control system for its smart speakers after its public bust-up with Google. The new Ray soundbar is a more compact …

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US judge determines Elon Musk’s 2018 tweets were inaccurate and reckless

Tesla’s CEO had tweeted that the company had secured financing from Saudi Arabia and would be taken private A US judge has determined that Elon Musk’s 2018 tweets that funding had been secured to take electric car maker Tesla private was inaccurate and reckless, saying “there was nothing concrete” about financing from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign …

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Could Terra fall prove to be Lehman Brothers moment for crytocurrencies?

Explainer: Questions asked about whether other ‘stablecoins’ may follow suit – and if so, what else? Billions were wiped off the cryptocurrency market this week with the collapse of the Terra “stablecoin”. But is its failure just another example of the here-today-gone-tomorrow nature of the sector, or could it be the beginning of a wider …

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Reversing Trump Twitter ban will provoke user backlash, Elon Musk warned

Rights groups fear Twitter buyer could open door to conspiracy theorists and contravene UK online safety bill Elon Musk’s promise to reverse a Twitter ban on Donald Trump if he completes his takeover of the social media platform has prompted warnings that it will provoke a backlash among users and could clash with new internet …

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Trek to Yomi review – a tropey but reverent tribute to Japanese cinema

Xbox Series S/X, PlayStation 4/5, PC; Flying Wild Hog/ Devolver DigitalThis grainy, gore-soaked katana caper slowly morphs into a compelling meditation on vengeance Even in the prologue, Trek to Yomi features more samurai cliches than you can chuck a katana at. Three levels of joyless brutality made me believe that this was going to be …

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TechScape: Apple, Google and Microsoft are about to make passwords a thing of the past

In this week’s newsletter: safer than two-factor authentication and easier than remembering dozens of codes, the ‘Fido’ system will make our digital lives smoother Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here What if you never had to type in a password again? Imagine. An international day of celebration. …

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