Month: October 2022

Ian Russell, whose daughter took her own life, says ‘waiting around’ leaves children exposed to harmful content Further delays in implementing the online safety bill will endanger young people at risk of harmful social media content, Molly Russell’s father has warned. Ian Russell said he received a phone call last week from the culture secretary, …

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The investment in vehicles includes the installation of fast charging points and ‘micromobility hubs’ Amazon is investing more than €1bn (£880m) to add thousands more electric lorries, vans and cargo bikes to its sprawling fleet of delivery vehicles across Europe over the next five years. The online retailer said it would invest £300m in the …

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Musk, the world’s richest person, suggested giving China some control over the island to resolve the cross-strait dispute China Taiwan tensions explained Taiwanese politicians have dismissed comments from Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, that allowing China to have some control over the island would resolve the cross-strait dispute, urging him to respect the wishes …

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Parent company of Australian telco says that the personal data of 129,000 customers and 23 businesses was obtained in a cyber-attack two years ago Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast Just weeks after Optus revealed that the records of …

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Same performance and battery of predecessors with better camera and significant changes on the inside On the surface, the iPhone 14 looks like a very minor upgrade. But a redesigned inside makes it easier and cheaper to repair, marking a major shift in the right direction for Apple. Weak currency rates against the dollar mean …

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In Mirror Mirror, the former advertising executive argues technology is an unregulated psychological experiment that is changing our brains Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast Todd Sampson’s documentary about how the internet is a giant, unregulated psychological experiment that is changing us is not alarmist, it’s just reality, the …

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Morgan Stanley and six others committed in April to raise $13bn in debt to finance the purchase – before a deterioration in credit markets Several large US and international banks would lose $500m or more if they proceed with obligations to fund Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter, according to a report on Saturday. The …

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For too long, the industry has escaped legal liability in the pursuit of its own interests – and the EU has had enough Way back in May 2014, the European court of justice issued a landmark ruling that European citizens had the right to petition search engines to remove search results that linked to material …

Tech firms say laws to protect us from bad AI will limit ‘innovation’. Well, good | John Naughton Read More »

The Canadian photographer on capturing a moment of calm – and a little slice of humanity – at Hong Kong’s Monster Building Nicknamed the Monster Building, the residential complex in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay is actually made up of five imposing tower blocks. In 2018, Canadian photographer Scott A Woodward had set up camp in …

‘It’s a living organism, a crazy cacophony of life’: Scott A Woodward’s best phone picture Read More »

Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around • ‘Stop setting things on fire’: nine great ideas to save the planet Maybe it is the name that is the problem. Climate change. It doesn’t sound …

Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’ Read More »