A collaboration between famed designer Yugo Nakamura and gaming auteur Tetsuya Mizuguchi has yielded one of the strangest, most compelling puzzle games of recent years Humanity was inspired by a throng of bodies. Specifically, the mass of people queueing for Comiket, the longstanding comic and pop culture convention in Tokyo. As its director Yugo Nakamura …
The spinoff app is trying to do what Mastodon couldn’t and take a piece of Elon Musk’s pie. Plus: the race to save 1bn NSFW images on Imgur Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Let’s check in on social media. In February, Bluesky released its iOS app. The social network began …
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Some in the book industry have already begun exploring automation of its pitches to readers. We took this functionality for a test drive “Blurb writing is a mini art form,” Iris Murdoch once wrote in a letter to former Penguin blurb writer Elizabeth Buchan. And like many other art forms, companies have been experimenting with …
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US Virgin Islands is suing the bank over sex trafficking by Epstein, saying he ‘may have referred or attempted to refer’ Musk as a client The US Virgin islands subpoenaed billionaire cars-to-rockets entrepreneur Elon Musk on Monday to obtain documents in its litigation into the role played by JPMorgan Chase bank in the activity of …
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Staff at the car-making company told to ‘think carefully’ about anything being proposed days after new Twitter CEO announced Days after announcing a new CEO at Twitter, Elon Musk has turned his eye to Tesla, ordering managers to clear all hires at the electric car maker through him. Musk communicated the decision in a memo …
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Linda Yaccarino is praised for understanding of advertisers – but Elon Musk must cede enough control “I see I have some new followers,” said Linda Yaccarino, adding side-eyes and waving hand emojis to a tongue-in-cheek post responding to the social media explosion that followed her unveiling as Twitter’s new chief executive on Friday. Still weeks …
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Brussels at loggerheads with UK regulator over acquisition of Call of Duty maker The EU has approved Microsoft’s $69bn (£55bn) acquisition of the Call of Duty creator Activision Blizzard, in a move that puts Brussels at loggerheads with its UK counterpart over the gaming mega-deal. The EU accepted Microsoft’s concessions on cloud gaming, the same …
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For three decades, the search for Princess Zelda has been thrilling fans and smashing records. As its latest incarnation grips players in their millions, Nintendo’s Hidemaro Fujibayashi and Eiji Aonuma reveal how they took Hyrule to new heights The release of a new Zelda game is always a major event worldwide. Ever since 1986, when …
Attack has caused worst disruption in decades to city’s paper of record and it is unclear when normal editorial services will resume The Philadelphia Inquirer is scrambling to restore its systems and resume normal operations after it became the latest major media organization to be targeted in a cyber-attack. With no regular Sunday newspaper and …
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From restoring artefacts destroyed by Isis to training robot vacuum cleaners, architects, artists and game developers are discovering the potential – and pitfalls – of the virtual world A shower of pink petals rains down in slow motion against an ethereal backdrop of minimalist white arches, bathed in the soft focus of a cosmetics advert. …
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