Month: July 2024

Look out for surplus fingers, compare mannerisms with real recordings and apply good old-fashioned common sense and scepticism, experts advise In a crucial election year for the world, with the UK, US and France among the countries going to the polls, disinformation is swirling around social media. There is much concern about deepfakes, or artificial …

Smudgy chins, weird hands, dodgy numbers: seven signs you’re watching a deepfake Read More »

European Commission says ‘pay or consent’ model does not comply with Digital Markets Act Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has breached the EU’s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram, according to the European Commission. Meta launched a “pay or consent” model last year in an effort …

Meta breaches digital rules by charging users for ad-free social networks, EU claims Read More »

The England player’s impromptu move took me back to the noughties, when PES 4-6 was ‘the illusion of control in a sandbox of chaos’. It was the beautiful video game Football, like everything else important in life, is about stories. People implant themselves into the narrative: where they were when they saw Maradona’s handball, the …

Jude Bellingham’s late stunner reminded me why Pro Evolution Soccer hit the target Read More »

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh From Donkey Kong to Halo 3, the entirety of video game evolution is here – and you can play almost every console and cabinet Walking through the doors of this exhibition, you are immediately greeted by the PDP-10 – the gigantic mainframe computer that was used to program SpaceWar, considered …

Game On review – interactive gaming exhibition is a thoroughly fun day out Read More »

This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance Micheál Mac Liammóir’s 1960 solo show interweaved the private and public lives of Oscar Wilde with excerpts from the great Irish wit’s oeuvre. Alastair Whatley – who directed The Importance of Being …

The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more Read More »