Month: July 2024

Transportation department says move aims to ensure care of passengers after global cyber outage snarled operations The US transportation department said on Tuesday it was opening an investigation into Delta Air Lines after the carrier canceled more than 5,000 flights since Friday as it struggles to recover from a global cyber outage that snarled airlines …

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Non-interactive cinematic sequences remove control from our hands at games’ most emotional moments. Can’t players be trusted to take part in stories? At the close of Metal Gear Solid 4, just after Snake pulverises Liquid Ocelot, there is series of cutscenes that never ends. Well, that’s not strictly true. It does end – after 71 …

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Countless theories for the cybersecurity firm’s outage are flying around, but whatever the reason, this sort of thing is likely to happen again • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here “Where did CrowdStrike go wrong” is, if anything, a slightly overdetermined question. We can work backwards. Pushing …

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Israeli company aims for stock market flotation after spurning biggest deal in tech group’s history The cybersecurity firm Wiz has turned down a $23bn (£18bn) takeover bid from Google’s parent, Alphabet, spurning what would have been the tech company’s biggest ever acquisition and seeking a stock market flotation instead. Alphabet had been in talks with …

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Billionaire says Optimus will start performing tasks for carmaker in 2025 and could be ready for sale in 2026 Business live – latest updates The Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has claimed the company will produce “genuinely useful” humanoid robots to start working in its factories next year. The world’s richest person, who has a …

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Sixth-generation folder adds bigger battery, better camera, brighter screen and more fancy AI features Samsung’s popular folding-screen Z Flip phone is back for 2024 with a faster chip, much longer battery life and more AI. The Galaxy Z Flip 6 is the smaller of Samsung’s two new folders for this year, launched alongside the book-style …

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There are stabs of the same fear that made The Beast fascinating, but this tale of a bored teenager in a scary, affectless future is too unfocused Prominent French film-makers are supported by their national industry and even their lockdown projects have been received with respectful attention. Earlier this year Olivier Assayas’s autofiction Hors du …

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Firm behind ‘California Forever’, a proposed green city for up to 400,000 people on farmland, pulls back from vote The company behind the highly criticized “California Forever” project, a plan backed by Silicon Valley billionaires to build a green city for up to 400,000 people on California farmland, withdrew the ballot measure for the election …

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This cooperative game made in Montreal sees players leading a band of Scottish soldiers against an English army in thrall to the corrupting influence of a crashed meteor ‘There’s this giant rock that fell from the sky on a Scottish island: they call it the Dragon Stone,” explains Raphaël Toulouse, director of Tears of Metal. …

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Young people are evaluating good and bad life decisions on a scale and seeking input from others. To philosophy experts, it sounds familiar You can count calories, steps, streams of your favorite song – and now, you can assign a number to how cool you are. See: aura points, a way to calculate your rizz. …

“How many aura points did I lose?” The new coolness currency has hints of Aristotle Read More »