Month: August 2022

Solana Foundation, supporter of blockchain network, says ‘malicious actor’ has taken funds Nearly $6m (£4.9m) has been drained from accounts linked to the Solana crypto network after a hacker targeted 8,000 wallets. The Solana Foundation, an organisation that supports the blockchain network, said a “malicious actor” had taken funds from a number of wallets linked …

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The listing was lambasted in a viral TikTok video and was taken down by the company Airbnb publicly apologized after it allowed a property owner to list an “1830s slave cabin” for rent in Greenville, Mississippi. In a TikTok video that went viral, a New-Orleans civil rights and entertainment lawyer, Wynton Yates, criticized the listing, …

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Developer Visai Studio’s debut tells a story of how food bridges the gap between generations Food is much more than mere sustenance. It’s an expression of love; for a culture, and for those eating. Venba isn’t so much a cooking game as it is a game about cooking – a narrative puzzle about restoring an …

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MPs including Tom Tugendhat and Iain Duncan Smith express fears Beijing may be able to access users’ personal data The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account following objections from senior Conservative politicians about the social video app’s connections to China. The speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords said they had …

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Featuring an astronaut trapped on a space station with only his alternate selves for company, 11 Bit Studios’ next game walks the line between comedy and commentary A sci-fi management sim from the team behind climate crisis fable Frostpunk, The Alters turns the classic video game concept of the “extra life” into a source of …

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Meta’s president of global affairs is heading back to London, having never hidden his longing for home Nick Clegg’s Europhile leanings are not just a political and professional matter, as a prominent remainer and former MEP, but a personal one too. Meta’s president of global affairs has a Dutch mother, a half-Russian father and is …

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If you’d bought or sold bitcoin every time I wrote about it over the last decade, how much would you have made? Let’s do the maths Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I’ve been writing about cryptocurrency for my entire career. In that time, one point I’ve always stuck to is …

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News of Renate Nyborg’s exit came as Match Group reported results that missed Wall Street expectations The chief executive of Tinder has left the dating app after less than a year after the market value of its parent company plunged by more than a fifth after reporting disappointing results. The departure of Renate Nyborg was …

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From the real story of a virus that took out Iran’s urianium centrifuges to a surprisingly good Dan Brown novel, these are some of the best stories of our new era of ill online deeds A generation ago cybercrime was as esoteric a subject to write about as quantum mechanics or fluctuations in the derivatives …

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Educational publisher’s move into non-fungible tokens is intended to claw back some of the income lost to secondhand sales Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning its titles into non-fungible tokens (NFTs), its chief executive has said. Educational books are often sold more than once, since students sell study resources they …

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