Dating apps have opened up opportunities to meet more people, but what have they done to our psyche? Emily Witt looks at how they have shifted the way we understand modern love, sex and relationships Over a decade ago, online dating existed through sites such as match.com and OKCupid. But they did not tend to …
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Wellness tech company, which enjoyed a boom in custom during the Covid lockdown, has let 90 of its 400 staff go The US-based meditation app Calm has laid off 20% of its workforce, becoming the latest US tech startup to announce job cuts. The firm’s boss, David Ko, said the company, which has now axed …
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghUsing a VR headset and an empty stage, Tim Crouch puts his audience at one remove from the Shakespeare play to comment on the world and theatre itself On the back wall there is a notice saying: “Please rinse and sanitise.” Over to the right a poster from Equity, the union for performers …
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It started with blocky players and electronic crowd noise, now it boasts intelligent animation and specific movement capture for the women’s game Earlier this year, at the famed La Romareda stadium in Zaragoza, Spain, EA Sports organised two football matches, one each for male and female pro players. During these competitive 90-minute fixtures, all participants, …
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Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of photographing the celestial spectacle, the last super moon of of 2022 Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast With a ‘sturgeon’ supermoon rising, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, …
Users who do not opt in to encryption could be vulnerable to unwitting access to their messages – including police searches Facebook announced on Thursday it will begin testing end-to-end encryption as the default option for some users of its Messenger app on Android and iOS. The development comes as the company is facing backlash …
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Cyber-attacks on health bodies appear to be on the rise again after a hiatus early in the pandemic • Fears for patient data after attack on NHS software supplier A ransomware attack on a software supplier has hit the NHS across the UK and there are fears that patient data may have been the target. …
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The owner of Facebook and Instagram is using code to follow those who click links in its apps, according to an ex-Google engineer Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has been rewriting websites its users visit, letting the company follow them across the web after they click links in its apps, according to new …
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PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4/5; Nosebleed Interactive/Wired ProductionsThis unusual game has you managing your dad’s launderette while running a secret arcade out the back It’s the early 1990s, and you – a college dropout – have been tasked with babysitting your chronically disappointed father’s launderette business. It is not an exciting job. You pick …
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Fusion of tech firm software and local council infrastructure may herald on-demand bus services 2.0 During the early stages of the pandemic, Transport for Wales (TfW) decided to try something new. In May 2020 it launched fflecsi, an app-based service that allows people to book a shuttle minibus from “floating bus stops” near their homes …
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