A jury of Californians acquitted the Autonomy founder, who on trial tried to show that life is ‘nuanced and messy’ “This is a momentous day in Autonomy’s history,” Mike Lynch declared in a press release on 18 August 2011. He was announcing the sale Autonomy, his software firm, to Hewlett-Packard for $11bn. For Lynch 6 …
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Tech firm earlier committed to storing less data about individuals in response to privacy concerns Google will begin to delete everything it knows about users’ previously visited locations, the company has said, a year after it committed to reducing the amount of personal data it stores about users. The company’s “timeline” feature – previously known …
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Measures will impact more than 13,000 pupils in Southwark, and include confiscating phones used at school A group of schools in London have announced they are to go smartphone-free, in a sign of the growing public concern over phone-based childhoods. Headteachers at 17 of the 20 state secondary schools in Southwark, south London, have taken …
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Children can view internet unrestricted by entering a certain nonsense phrase into Safari address bar Apple has promised to fix a years-old bug in its parental controls that allows children to bypass restrictions and view adult content online. The bug, by which a child could get around controls by simply entering a certain nonsense phrase …
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AI firms scrutinised over regulations that oversee fair competition and aim to prevent monopolies Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia face increased antitrust scrutiny of their roles in the artificial intelligence industry after a report that US regulators have reached an agreement on investigating the companies. The New York Times reported that the US justice department and …
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A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966 On my desk right now, sitting beside my ultra-modern gaming PC, there is a strange device resembling the spaceship control panel from a 1970s sci-fi movie. It has …
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PC; Charles Games The forking paths and opaque traps of his writings might sound amenable to gaming. But the meaningful futility of his fiction doesn’t add up to much here If Franz Kafka had lived to give notes on Playing Kafka, a new video game adaptation of his work, a big one might have been: …
Come By Chance tells the story of two 52-year-old Newfoundland men who realised their lives should have been so different. Plus: five of the best Euro 2024 podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Everything to Play ForWondery+, all episodes out on Monday Just in time for the Euros, …
In this week’s newsletter: The pandemic finally killed E3, but a cluster of loosely affiliated and competing events has risen up in its place• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here For the best part of 15 years, every June I would get on a plane to Los Angeles to cover …
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AI chipmaker’s stock has surged 147% so far in 2024, underscoring shift in tech world as demand for its processors far outstrip supply Shares of Nvidia rallied to record highs on Wednesday, with the artificial-intelligence chipmaker’s stock market valuation hitting the $3tn mark and overtaking Apple to become the world’s second most valuable company. The …
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