In this week’s newsletter: Maligned on its 2016 release, No Man’s Sky offers a richer, more human-centred drama than the Bethesda blockbuster’s empty experience • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Like several million other video game players, I spent many hours last week travelling the galaxy in Starfield, the …
Company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device after getting green light from independent review board Elon Musk’s brain-implant startup, Neuralink, said it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruiting patients for its first human trial. The company is seeking people with paralysis to test its experimental device …
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In Home Office initiative, survivors urge Mark Zuckerberg to rethink changes to Messenger and Instagram Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to roll out encrypted messaging on his platforms will let child abusers “hide in the dark”, according to a government campaign urging the tech billionaire to halt the move. The Facebook founder has been under pressure from …
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Brother and sister duo Grace and Harry Chadwick have followed in the footsteps of Charlie Brooker’s Bandersnatch with an interactive film about body swapping The receptionist is standing behind the hotel desk, his back towards me. An uncomfortable moment passes as I wait for him to register my presence. He doesn’t move. A giant, Father …
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Company says it believes about 193,000 customers are affected by the breach, which it spotted in early September Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Pizza Hut’s Australian operations have been hit by a cyber-attack, the company says, with customer …
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Charles Randell says some of the exchanges the FCA was pressed to allow to trade in the UK are now being investigated in the US The UK’s financial watchdog came under “political pressure” to welcome crypto firms into the British market, its former chairman has said. Charles Randell, who stepped down as chairman of the …
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AlphaMissense’s predictions could help speed up research and diagnosis of rare disorders Scientists at Google DeepMind have built an artificial intelligence program that can predict whether millions of genetic mutations are either harmless or likely to cause disease, in an effort to speed up research and the diagnosis of rare disorders. The program makes predictions …
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PC, Xbox, PS5This hack-and-slasher clings to its Soulsborne heritage too tightly, but does creative things that no other Soulslike until now has managed to pull off The Soulslike subgenre of games, named after the Dark Souls series of obtuse hack-and-slashers by From Software, are always punishingly difficult. It’s their whole raison d’etre – or at …
Lies of P review – inventive Pinocchio RPG has a fiendish heart Read More »
Unredacted court documents show digital-only cylindrical Xbox Series X console plans, a new controller and future Bethesda games releases An unredacted document accidentally made public as part of Microsoft’s court battle with the Federal Trade Commission over its proposed $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard has revealed key information regarding the future of Xbox as well …
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Alison Lomax, London chief of the video platform, says it is committed to embracing artificial intelligence – but ‘responsibly’ Alison Lomax’s presence on the video streaming platform she runs is relatively scant compared with the YouTubers with whom she spends much of her time. But what clips exist succinctly chart the marketing tech revolution she’s …
From hate speech to AI music: the YouTube chief trying to leap tech’s biggest hurdles Read More »
