This summer organisers are asking festival-goers to stop filming the event and live in the moment instead Many partygoers who attended Amsterdam’s No Art festival this summer will have had the time of their lives – but you wouldn’t be able to tell that from their social media channels. At the gates of the all-day …
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Startups around the world are engaging in clinical trials in a sector that could change lives – and be worth more than £15bn by the 2030s Oran Knowlson, a British teenager with a severe type of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, became the first person in the world to trial a new brain implant last October, …
Impersonators love tarot readers. Regulators and social media companies don’t care. Mystic practitioners fight back with Moonlight, ‘software for witches’ Since tarot practitioner Rebecca Scolnick first began reading cards professionally in 2018, she has been impersonated more than 50 times on Instagram. The scams typically follow a similar pattern: someone creates an account that mirrors …
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GMB union urges Health and Safety Executive to investigate ‘shocking’ figures revealed by the Observer Ambulances have been called out to Amazon warehouses more than 1,400 times in the past five years, the Observer can reveal. The figures, which were described as shocking by the GMB trade union, raise fresh questions about safety at the …
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A lockdown bike ride through central London with his son led the photographer to a moment of serene, sunny solitude Celebrating his 19th birthday with a six-hour bike ride through London’s deserted streets was not the plan when photographer Gideon Mendel’s son, Jonah, began university. “He started the autumn before the first Covid lockdown and …
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As the ‘civic hacker’ who became Taiwan’s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web? Audrey Tang didn’t have the easiest of starts in life. The Taiwanese hacker turned government minister was told at the age …
There is method to the apparent madness of the tycoon’s prolific 24-hour output Elon Musk doesn’t stop tweeting. Over just seven days last week, he made nearly 650 posts to the social network he bought in November 2022 and half-heartedly rebranded as X. In addition, he spent nearly three hours battling through technical problems he …
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ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros Discovery and Hulu planned to offer sports streaming venture Venu Sports in February The launch of Venu Sports will be delayed after a federal judge granted FuboTV’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the planned sports streaming venture by ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery. US district judge Margaret M Garnett …
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AI company bans accounts and says operation did not appear to have meaningful audience engagement OpenAI said on Friday it had taken down accounts of an Iranian group for using its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content meant for influencing the US presidential election and other issues. The operation, identified as Storm-2035, used ChatGPT to generate …
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The creators of the Lego Star Wars and Lego Harry Potter games bring similar energy and humour to this gentle action-adventure Ever since they first clambered into shops in 2010, Funko Pop figures have been an unavoidable part of pop culture fandom, lending their black-eyed large-headed charm to everything from Ms Marvel to Mr Bean. …
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