Month: July 2024

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD review – the scariest surprise is the price

Nintendo Switch; NintendoAs ever, Mario’s brother is a scream, but this remaster is haunted by the spectre of its much better sequel – and the price might spook you My favourite thing about Luigi’s Mansion is the detail. The way Mario’s cowardly brother nervously hums along to the music as he bumbles through spooky stately …

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Tesla sales fall for second straight quarter despite price cuts

Electric automaker’s quarterly deliveries fell for two straight quarters for the first time ever Tesla’s global sales fell for the second straight quarter despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, another sign of weakening demand for the company’s products and electric vehicles overall. The Austin, Texas, company said Tuesday that it sold 436,956 vehicles from …

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TechScape: Here’s four ways a new Labour government could use tech to boost Britain

If Keir Starmer wins on Thursday, he will have the power to free our data, jump-start the NHS and strip friction from our daily lives. Here’s how • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Barring an asteroid strike, Keir Starmer is going to be the UK prime …

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I simulated each UK party’s first years in government in a video game, and the results were awful

For the past week, I’ve been feeding UK party manifestos into the politics management game Democracy 4, to simulate their results five years on … Are you ready to be dismayed? Whether they are called manifestos or contracts, the documents published by political parties ahead of an election are rather less substantial than their many …

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The secret lives of porn addicts: ‘I am meticulous about covering my tracks’

As pornography use soars, some men feel their behaviour is moving from a compulsion to an addiction. They describe how this affects their health, happiness and relationships Tony is in his 50s and recently did a rough calculation of how much of his life he has spent looking at pornography. “The result was horrifying,” he …

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British female politicians targeted by fake pornography

Leading politicians victimised by online material including AI deepfakes, investigation finds British female politicians have become the victims of fake pornography, with some of their faces used in nude images created using artificial intelligence. Political candidates targeted on one prominent fake pornography website include the Labour deputy leader, Angela Rayner; the education secretary, Gillian Keegan; …

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Detroit changes rules for police use of facial recognition after wrongful arrest of Black man

City to pay $300,000 to Robert Williams, whose driver’s license was incorrectly flagged in shoplifting investigation The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a Black man who was wrongly arrested for shoplifting and to also change how police use facial recognition technology to solve crimes after the software identified him as a …

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China’s tech firms vow crackdown on online hate speech after knife attack

Clampdown follows fatal stabbing of Chinese woman who tried to stop attack on Japanese mother and child China’s internet companies have announced a crackdown on “extreme nationalism” online, particularly anti-Japanese sentiment, after a Chinese woman was fatally stabbed while protecting a Japanese mother and child in Suzhou. Tencent and NetEase, two of the biggest firms, …

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