Thin and light M2 Mac has fast performance, a very long battery life and one of the best screens on the market Apple’s much-rumoured 15in MacBook Air is here, marking the firm’s return to this part of the market and adding more screen to what is arguably the best consumer laptop available. The 15in MacBook …
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Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable. I’ve learned that’s nonsense I spent the best part of the 2010s working in new media, which – if you enjoyed being repeatedly laid off and then being inundated with jeering messages inveigling you to “learn to code” because your industry …
Be warned: you will be sucked in to the cosmic new worlds, its ‘Nasa punk’ aesthetic and the rich narrative details Bethesda always adds It’s the game Bethesda has been thinking about and dreamily planning for 25 years: a massive role-playing adventure, set not just on one world like the multimillion- selling Fallout and Skyrim …
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Voices of the Forgotten; Arcade Distillery; Windows/PC, PlayStation 5, XboxCombining cartoon graphics and documentary evidence, this first-person adventure telling the story of a Jewish family in Nazi-occupied Paris delivers a vital historical message Countless video games depict the second world war. Most guide players towards the battlefield, with its widescreen explosions and opportunities for sharpshooting …
Coventry workers determined to keep going despite setback in push for unionisation “Jeff Bezos has got more money than he could spend in a hundred lifetimes. He built the company up, but we’ve kept it going.” On a sunny shingle beach in Brighton, Darren Westwood and his colleagues are reflecting on the yearlong battle to …
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Thousands of subreddits to go private on Monday over plans to charge other companies for access to data Some of the largest communities on Reddit will lock their doors in protest at the social news site’s decision to try to monetise access to its data. More than 3,000 subreddits have joined the protest, and will …
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The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power, and why the online safety bill may be unworkable Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal – the not-for-profit secure messaging app. The service, along with WhatsApp and similar messaging platforms, is opposing …
We blame technology for decisions really made by governments and corporations Last November, a young African American man, Randal Quran Reid, was pulled over by the state police in Georgia as he was driving into Atlanta. He was arrested under warrants issued by Louisiana police for two cases of theft in New Orleans. Reid had …
Artificial intelligence will be the main talking point at the coming London Tech Week but investment and skills problems remain For some companies attending London Tech Week this Monday, just being there is an achievement. The sudden failure in March of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a financial cornerstone for the UK and US tech industries, …
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Silicon chip transistors are so small they are approaching their physical limits. And the firm that makes many of them may be somewhat hampered if Xi Jinping decides to invade Taiwan In the 1950s I spent a significant chunk of my pocket money buying a transistor. It was a small metal cylinder (about 5mm in …
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