Many businesses restrict the forms of payment they will accept – that’s shortsighted and foolish Splitting the bill with Venmo, paying with your Starbucks app, tap-and-go with your phones – how we pay for things has changed forever. But while our options have changed, and are still changing, some small business owners seem determined to …
Cash, cards, Venmo … don’t turn away customers who actually want to pay Read More »
Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden is expected to inform parliament on Monday of the attacks China has targeted a group of MPs and peers at Westminster in a string of cyber-attacks, it has been reported. On Monday, the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, is expected to inform parliament of the attacks. Continue reading… Deputy prime …
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GDC 2024 catered to the frustrated and those out of work, with cheaper tickets and a group screaming session Despite the sunny spring skies in San Francisco this week, the mood among nearly 30,000 video game industry professionals was gloomy as they descended upon the city for the yearly Game Developers Conference (GDC). Some were …
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The former CEO of FTX, once a king of cryptocurrency, saw a swift reversal of his fortunes starting in November 2022 In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on the morning of 28 March, tech wunderkind turned fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, unrepentant even after trial and conviction, will finally learn his fate. Bankman-Fried, who founded the cryptocurrency exchange …
The ‘pride and innocence’ of the photographer’s young son and niece are captured in this wedding day image It’s surprising to Craig Atkinson that a decade has passed since he took this photograph. His eldest son Oscar stands to the left of the frame, his niece Emily to the right. Back then, they were five …
The criminal trial over the $11bn sale of Autonomy to HP saw prosecutors calling him ‘Dr Lynch’ – and defense using ‘Mike’ At the height of his career, Mike Lynch – once the UK’s leading tech entrepreneur, hailed as “Britain’s Bill Gates” – sold his software firm to a Silicon Valley giant in an $11bn …
What have we learned from week one of Mike Lynch’s US fraud trial? Read More »
Real-world rollercoaster designers and the game’s creator, Chris Sawyer, reflect on the impact of the primitive-looking theme park sim that became a late 90s icon ‘I remember I would rush home from school just to play RollerCoaster Tycoon,” recalls John Burton, a senior creative lead at Merlin Entertainments (the owner of UK-based theme parks including …
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Coffee chain appears willing to come to the table, which could mean good news for Trader Joe’s, Amazon and REI workers For more than two years Starbucks has fought fiercely against unionization. Now the company appears willing to come to the bargaining table. Starbucks and its union made a surprise joint announcement in late February: …
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Channel 4 News finds 255 British people including its presenter Cathy Newman to have been doctored into explicit images More than 250 British celebrities are among the thousands of famous people who are victims of deepfake pornography, an investigation has found. A Channel 4 News analysis of the five most visited deepfake websites found almost …
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The US government filed a sprawling antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the tech giant has illegally prevented competition by restricting access to its software and hardware. ‘Apple has maintained its power not because of its superiority, but because of its unlawful exclusionary behavior,’ said US attorney general Merrick Garland US accuses Apple of ‘broad, …
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