Musk’s platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million A mass departure from Elon Musk’s X has led to the site losing about 2.7 million active Apple and Android users in the US in two months, with its rival social media platform Bluesky gaining nearly …
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PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox; NetEase GamesIt’s Overwatch with Marvel characters, and it’s well-made and fun to play – but Marvel Rivals is also so devoid of new ideas that it leaves a nasty aftertaste The history of video games is, to an extent, a history of subtle iterations of other people’s ideas. The interstellar success …
From football to food to Taylor Swift, many of the most common subjects were what you expect – but others less so Virtual assistant units have become a staple in many UK households, telling people whether it is expected to rain, what the time is, and what the result in the football was. Among the …
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Elon Musk carmaker pushed for British government to introduce rules for HGVs, as it readies Semi truck Tesla lobbied the UK government to strengthen rules on carbon emissions from cars and lorries, according to documents that also show the electric carmaker continued to push for increased taxes on fossil fuel cars. The US carmaker, which …
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Firm announces tool that can create AI video clip based on user’s written prompts will be available to anyone in the US Anyone in the US can now use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence video generator, Sora, which the company announced on Monday would become publicly available. OpenAI first presented Sora in February, but it was only …
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Tech corporation suspected of violating anti-monopoly law after Washington’s latest curbs on Chinese chip sector China said on Monday it has launched an investigation into Nvidia over suspected violations of the country’s anti-monopoly law, in a move widely seen as a retaliatory shot against Washington’s latest curbs on the Chinese chip sector. The statement from …
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Chip takes minutes to complete tasks that would otherwise take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed. Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete tasks that would take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years for some of the world’s fastest conventional computers to complete. Continue reading… Chip …
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The archeologist heads to Vatican City and the Egyptian Pyramids in this unconventional blockbuster, for lots of cleverly designed stealth, combat and puzzle-solving fun Making an Indiana Jones game today seems like a straightforward endeavour: you take Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, send him back in time 80-odd years, give him a fedora and a bullwhip and …
‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year – a fitting choice, given the startling impact the internet is having on our grey matter If you want to witness the last vestiges of human intellect swirling down the drain, hold your nose and type the words “skibidi toilet” into YouTube. The 11-second …
10% of Facebook’s UK workforce was axed while revenue fell slightly but pre-tax profits rose despite advertising slowdown Facebook cut more than 700 employees in the UK last year at a cost of £79m, after parent company Meta embarked on its first ever round of redundancies as part of a global cost-cutting drive to offset …
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