Month: April 2023

Philips Hue Go table lamp review: battery-powered smart light for indoors or out

Rechargeable, water-resistant lamp you can pick up and take into the garden The latest Philips Hue Go smart light aims to be a great indoor table lamp that you can just pick up and head out into the garden with for impromptu illumination wherever you need it. It costs £140 ($160), which makes it fairly …

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‘Stop or I’ll fire you’: the driver who defied Uber’s automated HR

Alexandru Iftimie received apology from tech giant after investigating data behind his supposed fraud Alexandru Iftimie, a 39-year-old who came to the UK from Romania seven years ago, was just about making ends meet as an Uber driver during the pandemic when he got an unexpected message from the ride-sharing app. “I received a warning: …

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Is the bird really freed? A look back at six months of Musk’s Twitter reign

As we approach half a year of Musk’s acquisition of the social media firm, this is how key areas of the site’s business have performed On 28 October 2022 Elon Musk tweeted “the bird is freed” as he marked his $44bn acquisition of Twitter. Nearly six months later, it became a dog. The distinctive avian …

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Elon Musk hates journalists but journalists love Twitter. Where does that leave us? | John Naughton

The billionaire’s hamfisted handling of his new toy won’t much matter as long as politicians and media types remain bewitched Last October, the richest manchild in human history fell into the trap he had dug for himself. Elon Musk was forced to purchase Twitter at an absurd price. He had no clear idea of what …

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Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker

Tesla and Twitter boss said to be bringing together team, weeks after co-signing letter demanding pause in AI research Elon Musk is reportedly planning to launch an artificial intelligence company to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, as Silicon Valley battles for dominance in the rapidly developing technology. The billionaire boss of Tesla and …

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‘It’s tough for parents’: should young children have their own phone?

Debate bubbles over how to navigate setting limits as UK study shows fifth of three- and four-year-olds have a device One in five UK children aged three and four have mobile phone, study finds How old is old enough to have your own mobile phone? For once, your children may be right that everyone else …

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Pentagon leaks: how Discord video game chat platform landed in the spotlight

Users explain the way top-secret documents were able slowly to spread across the internet unnoticed Live: suspect in Pentagon leaks charged The largest leak of classified Pentagon documents since Edward Snowden has placed a popular free chat platform for the video gaming community in the spotlight. Discord began in 2015 as a chat app for …

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Silicon valediction? Our road trip to tech industry hotspots as the sector cools

Tables may have freed up at Silicon Valley’s Coupa Cafe, but ‘scalability’ is still on the menu as tech workers look forward If you read the news, you’d think that San Francisco is dead. If you try to drive there during rush hour, you’d find that hard to believe. On a sunny Wednesday morning this …

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Bob Lee’s killing called ‘planned and deliberate’, prosecutors say

Nima Momeni, who appeared in court, is suspected of stabbing the Cash App founder with a kitchen knife and leaving him to die The killing of the Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco last week was a “planned and deliberate attack”, prosecutors in the case said in a court document on Friday. Officials …

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