Joe Cocker and Colin Crouch respond to a letter by a 94-year-old man who wrote that adults as well as children should avoid smartphones In wishing to ban smartphones, Tim Watson (nearly 94) throws the baby out with the bathwater (Letters, 20 December). Being of a certain age myself, I remember when nobody in my …
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Despite newer artists having viral moments, app users also enjoyed old school acts including Bronski Beat and Sade This was the year that Gen Z had their ‘Brat summer’, or so we were led to believe. Inspired by the hit album by pop sensation Charli xcx, the trend was seen to embody all the messiness …
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Bar some glitches, I think a tipping point has been reached – except when it comes to virtual gigs I’m writing this from a room that’s slowly orbiting the Earth. Behind the floating screen in front of me, through a giant opening where a wall should be, the planet slowly spins, so close that it …
The 76-year-old is part of a trend of ‘silver influencers’ whose success in the face of adversity resonates strongly. Could she be Elon’s secret weapon in China? Maye Musk is a busy woman. As well as being the mother of the world’s richest man, she has been jetting between various glamorous events – many of …
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A timeline of events in the year of Elon Musk shows how omnipresent he has become, how his X feed has become as unavoidable as Donald Trump’s was Hello, and welcome to Techscape. I’ve been pondering screen-time and isolation after I suffered through a recent bout of Covid. Even a few days of seclusion coupled …
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Exclusive: Guardian testing reveals AI-powered search tools can return false or malicious results if webpages contain hidden text OpenAI’s ChatGPT search tool may be open to manipulation using hidden content, and can return malicious code from websites it searches, a Guardian investigation has found. OpenAI has made the search product available to paying customers and …
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An onlooker filmed the moment when several drones with red and green lights fall out of formation and crash to the ground at a holiday show in Orlando on Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident after a seven-year-old boy was seriously injured Seven-year-old boy begins open-heart surgery after being hit in Florida …
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As co-chair of ‘government efficiency’ panel, Musk would influence policy that could help SpaceX, Tesla and X Elon Musk’s position as Donald Trump’s co-chair of an advisory panel tasked with proposing huge cuts in spending and regulations has sparked criticism from legal experts and watchdogs who warn of conflicts of interest that could benefit the …
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Amid claims of sabotage of undersea cables, a small wooden structure houses a key cog in Europe’s digital connectivity At the end of an unmarked path on a tiny island at the edge of Stockholm’s extensive Baltic Sea archipelago lies an inconspicuous little wooden cabin, painted a deep shade of red. Water gently laps the …
Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their agendas The get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer, Nick Candy, was not just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds. Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly …
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