Expo in east London shows how important augmented and virtual reality will be, as attractions move with the times In the fight for theme park visitors the battle lines have been drawn – monster trucks, virtual reality zombie warfare and “smellscaping”, just thankfully not all at the same time. And while there was a sombre …
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A court in Delaware will decide whether the Tesla chief can back out of his $44bn offer to buy the platform As the Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko was telling US lawmakers of “egregious” security failings at the company last Tuesday, shareholders in the social media platform overwhelmingly voted to hand those problems over to someone …
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Studies show that women with heart disease are more likely to be misdiagnosed than men, and will have worse outcomes for surgery. What is behind this bias and how can how it be fixed? Heart diseases are still chronically misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed in women. With depressing regularity, we see stories of women failed by the …
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Seeing how much fun your peers are having is bad for your mental health, a study of students suggests Scrolling Twitter or refreshing Facebook definitely feels like it’s bad for you, as our attention spans rot and meaning is drained from our lives. Despite those strong feelings, we’re usually told the evidence isn’t yet there …
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Speaking to animals has long been a fantasy. But now a dizzyingly ambitious project is harnessing all the power of modern science in an attempt to understand what whales say – and then hold conversations with them Tom Mustill was kayaking with his friend Charlotte in Monterey Bay, California, when an animal three times the …
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Do Kwon’s whereabouts are still unknown since a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant earlier this week Do Kwon, the South Korean founder of the failed cryptocurrency Terra wanted by police, has denied he was on the run after Singapore investigators said he was not in the city-state as had been believed. Kwon’s whereabouts …
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If you want to be an internet-age version of General Motors or IBM, you need to sell something people want and steer clear of political pitfalls A question: what’s the average lifespan of an American company? Not any old company, mind, but one big enough to figure in Standard and Poor’s index of the 500 …
Bodegraven-Reeuwijk has been plagued by a conspiracy theory and wants tweets spreading it removed A small Dutch town took Twitter to court on Friday to demand the social media company take down all messages relating to a supposed ring of Satan-worshipping paedophiles alleged to have been active in the town in the 1980s. Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, a …
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A moment at a Rohingya refugee camp gave the photojournalist a sense of the surreal In the shadow of Tangkhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, photojournalist Jashim Salam stood by a projection screen and surveyed the crowd of Rohingya refugee children. They were watching a health and sanitation awareness film. “In that particular moment it looked …
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President appears at Detroit auto show, where EVs are this year’s stars – but the road to electrification promises to be a bumpy one Fresh off signing legislation aimed at propelling the nation’s electric vehicle (EV) transition, Joe Biden was in Detroit last week to reaffirm his support for electrification ahead of the opening of …
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