Two-child cap | Year-round holly berries | Palace costs | Old technology | Rubber band ball Polly Toynbee says she will eat her hat if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don’t get rid of the two-child cap soon (Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty – I’ll bet …
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Banking and healthcare firms, major airlines expected to suffer most losses, according to insurer Parametrix The global technology outage sparked by CrowdStrike’s faulty update will cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn, insurers estimated, as the cybersecurity firm vowed to make changes to prevent it from happening again. The projected financial losses exclude Microsoft, the tech …
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This strange, dark game is an allegory about voyeurism and transactional sex that gives ample space to freak ourselves out – and critics and players can’t get enough • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here A man wearing a weird animalistic mask sits slumped in an armchair in a grotty …
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The performance artist and ‘sex clown’ shares her list of (mostly) wholesome clips: the cutest children, the best dog and the glitziest aerobics workout Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I am a person who believes in laughter. I work in live art. My main medium is performance. In art-making I revere legacies of …
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I’m no expert, but knowing my neighborhood’s trees and flowers by name makes me feel grounded Eighteen months ago, I adopted a dog. Now I’m out on the streets of Brooklyn with my hound mix for at least an hour a day, strolling and wrestling discarded chicken bones from her jaws. You notice a lot …
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The country has long been the world’s biggest market – but the government’s interest is more geopolitical than environmental When Kenzi, an advertising worker in Shanghai, bought an electric vehicle in November she wasn’t even thinking about the environmental benefits. She had read Elon Musk’s biography and thought the Tesla 3 looked good. She also …
Creative director Andrea Lucco Borlera explains how this fever dream of a game came to be and why it’s not afraid to get weird Naked people with horse heads for their noggins. Nightmares so vividly surreal they blur into reality. An uncanny farmer who never blinks and forbids you from ever entering his room. If …
Musk said it was ‘not true’ that he was planning large monthly donations but said he had created ‘America Pac’ and is making ‘lower level’ donations Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied reports that emerged last week that he was planning to donate $45m a month to a Super Pac focused on getting Trump elected. …
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Alphabet reports $84.7bn in revenue, on back of Search and Cloud, up from the same period last year Google’s parent company, Alphabet, outperformed analysts’ expectations on Tuesday, reporting second-quarter earnings of $1.89 per share, the same as its first quarter results. Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, touted the results as proof that the company’s investments across …
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Tech firm says its freely available and usable Llama 3.1 405B model is comparable with likes of OpenAI and Anthropic Meta has claimed that its new artificial intelligence model is the first open-source system that will rival products from competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic. In a blogpost, the company said its new model, with …
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