From new iterations of Street Fighter, Diablo and Zelda to modern takes on 80s arcades and an evil pizza atop a pizza tower, readers share their picks This is a 2023 remake of the game that got me into action games in 2005. Third-person over the shoulder shooters were new then and the action genre …
Carmaker founded by Elon Musk beats forecasts to deliver 466,000 vehicles in three months to end of June Tesla delivered a record number of vehicles in the second quarter, as its strategy to cut prices drove sharp increase in sales of its most popular electric vehicles. The carmaker, which is run by the Twitter and …
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Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking …
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Essence Festival of Culture, held annually in New Orleans, sues corporation, citing its ‘intentional exploitation of Black culture’ Spotify last year hosted an event using the branding of what is arguably the US’s largest Black cultural festival without permission, according to a lawsuit which pits the streaming giant against the organizers of the Essence Festival …
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As platforms such as Omegle and Roblox proliferate so do warnings about technology being ‘weaponised to abuse children’. What can families do? Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast “In less than 30 seconds I saw a man clearly masturbating on camera,” Kirra Pendergast says, describing a visit to …
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Move is to address ‘extreme levels’ of data scraping and system manipulation, says Elon Musk Twitter has applied temporary reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday. Verified accounts were temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, …
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Tech firm gives parents greater control over their children’s online activities, but not all kids have consistent supervision Social media giant Meta this week introduced new parental supervision tools, but child protection and anti-sex trafficking organizations say the new measures offer little protection to the children most vulnerable to exploitation, and divert the responsibility from …
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For a street photographer in a New York zoo, wildlife and children came together brilliantly It happens to be his daughter Tess’s 16th birthday on the day I speak with Sheldon Serkin about this photograph, which he took when Tess (on right) was just six. Sheldon and his wife, Tali, had taken Tess and her …
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