What better final bonding experience than a video game about a prison break before heading off to uni? My son Charlie leaves home in a few weeks. He will be 3,000 miles away. My heart is breaking. I decide we need one more formative games playing experience. Something we can bond over, that will maybe …
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Readers respond to Larry Elliott’s article about the impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace Like runaway climate change, the rapid development of self-learning artificial intelligence is an unprecedented existential threat to humanity, where past experience will be no guide to our future prospects (AI will end the west’s weak productivity and low growth. But …
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Broadcaster leaves platform a day after NPR’s exit over concerns labels undermine credibility as independent news outlets The US’s Public Broadcasting Service, better known as PBS, has quit its use of Twitter after the platform labeled the organization as “government-funded media”. PBS’s announced its Twitter exit on Thursday, one day after National Public Radio also …
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They may be cheaper and less trouble, but they’ll never have the gravitas, the engagement or the raised eyebrow of reporters like me “The news is … there is no news.” With those words, outside St Mary’s Hospital in London awaiting the birth of Prince George in July 2013, my reporting for the BBC went …
In this week’s newsletter: After decades of offensively terrible video game adaptations, I’m more than happy to settle for one that is simply OK Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I don’t think I’ve ever been to see a film on its opening day – but I made the effort …
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Recording archive to include 25 more items among ‘defining sounds of nation’s history’, including Madonna’s Like a Virgin The original 1985 theme from Super Mario Bros, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You and Madonna’s 1984 album Like a Virgin are among “the defining sounds of the nation’s history and culture” to be …
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In this week’s newsletter: The master storyteller investigates Carol Howe’s extraordinary life in The Debutante. Plus: five of the best real-life mystery podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The DebutanteAudible, all episodes out nowJon Ronson hosts another addictive series, this time investigating Carol Howe – the glamorous former debutante …
Powerful speaker with quality sound shows how to do immersive music right, if you can find a good track The Era 300 is the second in Sonos’s next-generation line of wifi hi-fis, packing six speakers into one curvaceous box capable of immersing listeners in quality sound. The speaker costs £449 ($449/A$749) and sits above the …
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Twitter owner says ‘constant criticism and attack’ has been ‘rough’, but that company is trending towards being cashflow positive very soon Elon Musk says BBC’s Twitter tag will be changed from ‘government-funded media’ Demand for cinema trips picked up last year as pandemic restrictions were lifted, boutique operator Everyman Media Group reports this morning Everyman, …
Twitter owner says he has ‘utmost respect’ for broadcaster and that tag will be changed to ‘publicly funded’ Twitter owner Elon Musk has said the social media site will update the BBC’s “government-funded media” tag after the broadcaster objected to the label. The BBC contacted Twitter last week after the designation was attached to the …
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