Month: October 2024

Feed is rife with posts of individuals deemed suspicious and calls for doxxing with little evidence provided of fault While Elon Musk faces his own election integrity questions offline, the X owner has deputized his followers to spot and report any “potential instances of voter fraud and irregularities”. The community he spawned is rife with …

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Company reports $94.9bn in revenue, slightly beating Wall Street projections in first look at demand for its new phone Apple reported strong demand for the iPhone 16 in its quarterly earnings report on Thursday, though sales in China slightly decreased year-over-year. The company reported $94.9bn in revenue, up 6% year-over-year, and $1.64 in earnings per …

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Shares rise as company reports quarterly revenue of $158.9bn – more than analysts had forecast Amazon became the latest of the “Magnificent Seven” tech giants to report quarterly earnings on Thursday, with all eyes once again on cloud computing and any sign of a return on vast AI investments. Shares in the e-commerce giant rose …

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CSE report says India is also stepping up cyber-attacks against Canada government networks A Canadian spy agency has warned that India is using cyber technology to track separatists abroad, a day after the country’s government accused a top Indian official of authorizing violence that included the killing of a Sikh activist in Vancouver. In a …

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Canvassers discovered they were working to drum up turnout for Trump after signing non-disclosure agreements Elon Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort for Donald Trump has come under renewed scrutiny after paid canvassers reported not knowing beforehand that they were being hired to support the former president. Workers recruited by Musk’s America Pac to canvass in the battleground …

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Vast datacentres are being built worldwide, amid growing concerns about the environmental costs. So should we all be considering a data diet – if not complete digital sobriety? Nearly 20 years ago, the British mathematician Clive Humby coined a snappy phrase that has turned into a platitude: “data is the new oil”. He wasn’t wrong. …

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The project that began in the Canary Islands mimics the way leaves capture water droplets from fog in order to produce water They call it cloud milking, a zero-energy technique to extract water from fog that is revolutionising the recovery of forests devastated by fire and drought. The idea began as a pilot project in …

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Experts say top chief executives are treading a fine line to avoid any backlash in the event of a Trump victory After the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, America’s business leaders came out strongly in their criticism of Donald Trump. Now – as the Harris campaign brands Trump a “fascist” and Trump threatens …

Business leaders keep quiet on Trump – what are they saying in private? Read More »

PC, PS5, Xbox; Deck Nine/Square Enix There’s much to enjoy in this sequel to the trailblazing female-led narrative game, but inconsistent characterisation lets it down In 2015, when I first played as Maxine Caulfield in the original Life Is Strange, it was only the second time I had ever played a game starring a teenaged …

Life Is Strange: Double Exposure review – supernatural drama gets caught up in its tangled timelines Read More »

A fascinating fortnightly show explores the darker side of the scare industry. Plus: five of the creepiest podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Brown Girls Do It Too: Big Boy Energy BBC Sounds, episodes weeklyWhile Rubina Pabani’s on maternity leave, Poppy Jay invites men to open up about …

How a spooky suburban manor became a genuine house of horrors Read More »