Windows 11 workstation has top creative and gaming performance housed in sleek 16in laptop design The top of Samsung’s new 2023 laptop line is the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra: a powerhouse 16in machine aiming squarely at Apple’s 16in MacBook Pro for creatives and gamers. A laptop called Ultra obviously doesn’t come cheap, costing from £2,449 …
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The second film adaptation of the phenomenally successful video game is a disappointment to rival the first Films or TV shows based on games don’t have to be terrible – as proved in various ways by Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and The Last of Us. Even The Angry Birds Movie wasn’t too bad. …
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Up to 1.4m children under 13 use app, watchdog finds – and experts say they are being flooded with harmful content to promote addiction TikTok fined £12.7m for illegally processing children’s data It is the home of dance tutorial videos and viral comedy sketches. But it is also host to self-harm and eating disorder content, …
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In this week’s newsletter: After weeks of warnings, Twitter appears to have backed down on plans to do away with one of Musk’s original obsessions. Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here For weeks, Twitter has been promising that it would be ending its “legacy” verification programme – the one that actually …
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Violations include using data of children without parental consent, says information commissioner TikTok has been fined £12.7m for multiple breaches of data protection law, including using the personal data of children aged under 13 without parental consent, Britain’s data watchdog has said. The Chinese-owned video app had not done enough to check who was using …
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When I couldn’t turn on the lights she told me there was ‘no account associated with this device’ In December I came home and, as usual, shouted to Alexa to turn on the lights but was surprised when she responded that there was “no Amazon account associated with this device”. Frustrated and in the dark, …
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Elon Musk tweets out meme after blue bird on homepage replaced by image of shiba inu associated with cryptocurrency Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Twitter changed its iconic blue bird logo on Monday to mimic the logo …
National Cyber Force says it is engaged in ways to ‘undermine tradecraft’ of Russian, Chinese and other state-sponsored hackers Britain’s newly created offensive hacking unit, the National Cyber Force, has said it is engaged daily in operations to disrupt terrorist groups, distributors of child sexual abuse material and military opponents of the UK. An official …
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Concerns have arisen over tech firms using masses of unfiltered personal data culled from the internet to ‘train’ generative AI Britain’s data watchdog has issued a warning to tech firms about the use of people’s personal information to develop chatbots after concerns that the underlying technology is trained on large quantities of unfiltered material scraped …
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Floppy Club; Nintendo Switch, Windows, macOSYou solve puzzles, then create the songs, in this tactile puzzle game spanning genres and instruments, from Ethiopian jazz to krautrock The relationship between rhythm and mathematics is straightforward and yet profound: notes arranged in regular patterns can yield endless variety – works that elicit everything from melancholy to dance. …
