Rising interest rates, dampened growth and the public’s shifting views on Big Tech are giving experts pause Huge layoffs at Snapchat, dramatic valuation drops at Meta and Apple, and hiring freezes at other Big Tech firms have given new fuel to an increasingly common question: Is Silicon Valley’s golden era coming to an end? The …
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PC (version tested), PlayStation 5, Xbox; The Outsiders/FuncomThe Outsiders’ impressive debut combines the gunplay of Doom with the musical button-mashing of Guitar Hero First-person shooters and heavy metal go together like AC/DC concerts and audiologist appointments. Their relationship stretches back to 1993’s Doom, for which composer Bobby Prince borrowed heavily from the music of Alice …
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Nintendo Switch; NintendoNever mind the spectacularly colourful paint battles, this is quietly one of the best and most inventive action-puzzle games around Nintendo’s offbeat hit Splatoon has been around since 2015, but the idea is still so charmingly bizarre that it feels fresh: human-cephalopod hybrids splatter each other and their surroundings with colourful paint on …
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Search engine adopted the strategy with UK’s competition regulator, which is trying to block a $400m buyout from Facebook’s owner It’s rare for a multimillion-dollar company to explicitly state that its business is dying because it’s simply too uncool to live. But that’s the bold strategy that gif search engine Giphy has adopted with the …
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A hacker apparently compromised an employee’s Slack messaging app and was able to gain access to other internal company systems Uber said on Thursday it is responding to a cybersecurity incident, after the New York Times reported that a hack had breached the company’s network and forced it to take several internal communications and engineering …
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Software upgrade, known as ‘the merge’, will change how transactions are managed on its blockchain Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency, has completed a plan to to reduce its carbon emissions by more than 99%. The software upgrade, known as “the merge”, will change how transactions are managed on the ethereum blockchain, a public and decentralised …
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In this week’s newsletter: The British Somali migrant was wrongfully found guilty of murdering Cardiff shopkeeper Lily Volpert in 1952 – a new podcast finds out why. Plus: five of the best long podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here UpfrontWidely available, episodes weeklyWho will be …
Research team hopes system could improve natural conversations between humans and AI systems Laughter comes in many forms, from a polite chuckle to a contagious howl of mirth. Scientists are now developing an AI system that aims to recreate these nuances of humour by laughing in the right way at the right time. The team …
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The case mirrors a District of Columbia complaint alleging the company pushes sellers to maintain higher prices on other sites California is suing Amazon, accusing the company of violating the state’s antitrust laws by stifling competition and engaging in practices that push sellers to maintain higher prices on products on other sites. The 84-page lawsuit …
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Men allegedly tried to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from groups in US including domestic violence shelter Three Iranians have been charged with trying to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from organizations in the United States, Europe, Iran and Israel, including a domestic violence shelter, by hacking in to their computer systems, US …
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