Month: January 2023

The HBO version of the post-apocalyptic has had rave reviews. From Silent Hill to Broken Sword, here are others that could really shine on the small screen Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here With the benefit of hindsight, it was always going to be television and not film where the …

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Firm says layoffs will result in a charge of $1.2bn in its second quarter Microsoft has said it will cut 10,000 jobs by the end of March, in the latest sign that layoffs are accelerating in the US tech sector as companies brace for an economic downturn. The layoffs will result in a charge of …

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PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, PC; ILCA/Bandai NamcoA bonkers collection of epic adventures and side-quests sprinkled with puzzles that fans of the Japanese pop-cultural behemoth have been crying out for One Piece is a pop-culture behemoth that, unaccountably, never gained traction outside of Japan. Officially the biggest-selling manga comic series ever, it is now celebrating its …

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More than 500 advertising clients have reportedly paused spending since Elon Musk’s takeover in October Twitter remains in the grip of an advertising squeeze with the social media platform being hit by a 40% drop in revenue after more than 500 clients paused their spending, according to reports. The company’s daily revenue was down 40% …

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Internet dating can feel soul-destroying, unnerving and transactional. Couples explain how their love lives were transformed when they finally stopped swiping When Georgie Thorogood’s date made a sleazy joke about “horsey girls carrying whips”, she knew it was time to make a hasty exit. After meeting Tom through a dating app in the summer of …

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Meta’s advisory board says policy impedes right to expression for women and trans and nonbinary people Facebook and Instagram’s parent company could soon free the nipple. More than a decade after breastfeeding mothers first held a “nurse-in” at Facebook’s headquarters to protest its ban on breasts, Meta’s Oversight Board has called for an overhaul to …

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Video from 2016 was promoted by Elon Musk as evidence that ‘Tesla drives itself’ A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer. …

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Afghanistan’s hardline Islamist rulers had never carried a verification tick mark before the launch of Twitter Blue Twitter account verifications bought by the Taliban appear to have been removed, after many expressed outrage that the social media platform had given its blue check marks to Afghanistan’s hardline Islamist rulers. Twitter previously only gave blue “verified” …

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One new provision targets senior managers at tech platforms who ignore Ofcom enforcement notices Explainer: what’s in the online safety bill Tech executives who “connive” in ignoring regulatory warnings to protect children from online harms face up to two years in jail under changes to landmark legislation announced by the government. The culture secretary, Michelle …

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Lawsuit seeks damages for shareholders who bought or sold Tesla stock in the days after Musk’s August 2018 tweets Elon Musk and Tesla are set to go to trial in San Francisco on Tuesday in a case in which the company’s shareholders claim they were defrauded by Musk’s 2018 statement that funding was “secured” to …

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