Super-premium Apple tablet gets power and feature upgrade, but comes at even higher cost Apple has added yet more power to its top tablet, fitting the new iPad Pro with the M2 chip from the latest Macs while attempting to make it work more like a laptop with new software. But all that power comes …
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Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of photographing the moon. Tuesday night’s total lunar eclipse will be the last one visible from the region until 2025. How to see Tuesday’s blood moon total lunar eclipse from Australia and New Zealand Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or …
After the announcement by Elon Musk, several accounts that had changed their name to his appeared to be suspended Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be “permanently suspended”. “Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread …
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Tech company says customers will experience longer wait times as the plant in China is operating at reduced capacity Apple has said it expects lower iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone Pro Max shipments than previously anticipated as Covid-19 restrictions temporarily disrupt production at an assembly facility in Zhengzhou, China. “The facility is currently operating at …
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Platform’s new owner tells video-makers he’s planning ‘creator monetization for all forms of content’ The anarchic behaviour of YouTubers draws huge online audiences and has turned stars such as MrBeast and Logan Paul into the best-paid entertainers of the internet age. Now Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, wants a piece of this lucrative action and …
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A week-long experiment by the Guardian showcased how widely each person’s experience and ‘For You’ page varied Dance videos, viral pranks, adorable pets, beauty tutorials and 60-second recipes. A scroll through TikTok’s “For You” page offers a steady stream of strange and delightful content that can feel both chaotic and somehow perfectly suited to your …
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Pretending that opaque, error-prone ML is part of the grand, romantic quest to find artificial intelligence is an attempt to distract us from the truth One of the most useful texts for anyone covering the tech industry is George Orwell’s celebrated essay, Politics and the English Language. Orwell’s focus in the essay was on political …
Analysis by hate monitoring organisation shows platform has shown reality star’s content ‘despite pledge’ to crack down TikTok is failing to crack down on accounts that post misogynistic content featuring the banned influencer Andrew Tate, despite a previous pledge to do so, according to new research. Analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) …
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Stuffed ballot boxes, ‘BlueAnon’, support for Russia and ‘corporate communists’ are catnip on the rightwing platform Ballot boxes being stuffed. “BlueAnon”. Men in underpants. Every Democratic candidate: a “complete weirdo psychopath”. To dive into Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Twitter-but-for-conspiracy-theorists social media platform, is to enter a world where all of the above are real topics …
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Volker Türk says reports of platform’s human rights team being laid off is ‘not an encouraging start’ Elon Musk has been urged by the UN to make respect for human rights central to Twitter after suggestions that as many as half of its more than 7,500 staff could be sacked. In an open letter, Volker …
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