For most, giving up a smartphone in 2023 would be an almost inconceivable inconvenience. But those who’ve done it say they found delight with dumber devices Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Earlier this year, Angelo Profera’s smartphone gave up the ghost. Like many 21-year-olds, he’d been using it a lot: messaging friends, scrolling …
How does it feel to live without a smartphone? ‘Almost spiritual’ Read More »
Surf across an ever-shifting ocean of sand and battle giant leviathans in the latest game from Giant Squid, makers of Abzû and The Pathless There’s a joyous moment in the 2012 game Journey where, in a break from trudging through the desert, your robed character surfs effortlessly down a mountain of shifting sand while Austin …
Sword of the Sea channels surfing, spirituality and Shadow of the Colossus Read More »
Offer a wooden city a helping hand in this beguiling Australian climate puzzler If you’ve ever spent time in Melbourne, Australia, you will undoubtedly have heard a local explain their “four seasons in one day” lifestyle. Perhaps you were told to pack a raincoat and some heavy-duty sunscreen, or warned of hail on a sunny …
A playful angle on global heating: Wood and Weather Read More »
Although designers do have a lot of power, AI is just a tool conceived to benefit us. Communities must make sure that happens Superpower. Catastrophic. Revolutionary. Irresponsible. Efficiency-creating. Dangerous. These terms have been used to describe artificial intelligence over the past several months. The release of ChatGPT to the general public thrusts AI into the …
There were 9,000 breaches of personal information last year but experts say not enough is being done to stop them “It’s brutal. People are wondering if they should resign, or move house, or get fortified gates. You can feel the anger.” The comment from a former officer in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) …
PSNI and UK voter breaches show data risks should be taken more seriously Read More »
Notice sent to employees who were not in office at least three times a week, after other tech firms’ efforts to get workers back on site Amazon workers in the US are being tracked and penalized for not spending sufficient time in the company’s offices, an email sent to employees this week revealed, as tech …
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Chief executive of platform rebranded as X seeking to reverse advertiser boycott since Elon Musk takeover The chief executive of X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has moved to repair the company’s relationship with advertisers by reinstating a “client council” for marketing and ad agency executives. Linda Yaccarino wrote on the platform …
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Platform rebranded X last month lists 584 lots including Twitter signs, a wooden bird table and outsized bird cages Elon Musk is to auction Twitter memorabilia from its San Francisco headquarters following the social media platform’s switch to the name X, including its former bird logo from the side of the building. The billionaire rebranded …
Elon Musk to auction off Twitter memorabilia from San Francisco HQ Read More »
For Microbird Games co-founders Philipp Seifried and Regina Reisinger, the social side of their RPG adventure game is just as important as exploring dungeons and slaying huge bosses Dungeon slaying video games have severely lacked one essential element, until now: toasting an epic monster battle with a well-deserved schnitzel. At least, that’s what the team …
Dungeons of Hinterberg: a game of hack ’n’ slash ’n’ schnitzels in the Austrian Alps Read More »
In this week’s newsletter: The Match of the Day presenter joins Alan Shearer and Micah Richards for The Rest Is Football, just in time for the new season. Plus: five of the best summer podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Dear AlanaWidely available, episodes weeklySimon Kent Fung remembers learning …
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