A man in Washington state has trademarked the phrase – but all isn’t lost for Jools LeBron, legal experts say The creator behind TikTok’s “demure” catchphrase has become more mindful of US trademark law. Jools Lebron, an influencer with over 2 million followers on the app, became an overnight sensation after advising on how to …
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PlayStation 5, PC; Game SciencePrior to this release, few would have heard of Chinese developer Game Science, but the studio has produced a totally original epic Black Myth: Wukong is a video game obsessed with spectacle – but inspiring awe requires confidence. Such self-assuredness is a rarity in big-budget games, where concerns about mainstream palatability …
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Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdown since disputed election The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who spent some of his happiest years chronicling life in Caracas, once declared journalism “the best job in the world”. Not so if you are reporting on today’s Venezuela, where journalists are feeling the …
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Meta boss regrets bowing to government power and says he would not make the same choices today Business live – latest updates The Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has said he regrets bowing to what he claims was pressure from the US government to censor posts about Covid on Facebook and Instagram during the pandemic. Zuckerberg …
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In this week’s newsletter: Pavel Durov’s detention by French authorities is a major break from the norm – but his low-moderation, non-encrypted app is an anomaly Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here So we’ve entered a world in which the CEOs of major social network are arrested …
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Curtis Priem has a vision for a quantum computing future and believes the area along the Hudson valley is fertile for the next tech boom The “quantum chandelier” that sits within a glass box in the chapel at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s campus in Troy, New York, is the symbolic centerpiece of an ambitious effort to …
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He has been praised for refusing to share data with the Kremlin. But if targeting CEOs worries Musk, Zuckerberg et al, so be it The shock arrest of Telegram chief executive Pavel Durov as he stepped off his private jet in Bourget airport near Paris over the weekend is a startling, unprecedented event: he faces …
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/SA genuinely likable new lead and intense attention to the mythology of the Star Wars films made this a nostalgic thrill Nostalgia is a funny thing – there are times it just swoops in out of nowhere like a TIE fighter and blasts you right in the guts, leaving you confused …
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Once nicknamed the ‘Russian Zuckerberg’, Durov has boasted of being the biological father of more than 100 children The Russian-born tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov has founded wildly popular social networks as well as a cryptocurrency, amassed a multibillion dollar fortune and locked horns with authorities in Russia and around the world. Still a few months …
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Rob Minnick uses the platform to detail the dangers of gambling in an effort to tackle content that normalizes it Rob Minnick was in a bathroom in Paris when it dawned on him that he might need some help. Having flown 3,700 miles to explore the French capital, he kept disappearing for 10 or 15 …
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