Month: January 2025

Elon Musk stands accused of pretending to be good at video games. The irony is delicious | Keza MacDonald

Musk desperately wants to appropriate gamer credibility, but he may be faking it – and doing exactly what toxic nerds have been accusing women of doing for decades Last year on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Elon Musk claimed to be one of the world’s best Diablo IV players – and surprisingly, the leaderboards backed him up. …

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Why is TikTok working again in the US as Trump takes office?

App has resumed operations after saying it received assurance over de facto ban, but its future remains uncertain Donald Trump inauguration – live updates TikTok is restoring its service in the US after Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order when president to allow the app to continue operating. It had shut itself …

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AI tool can give ministers ‘vibe check’ on whether MPs will like policies

Parlex is one of several artificial intelligence systems being developed within the government A new artificial intelligence tool can warn ministers whether policies are likely to be very unpopular with their party’s MPs, using a search described as a “parliamentary vibe check”. Parlex is among a number of AI tools being developed for ministers and …

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‘Inside I was doing the Mario jump’ – how one artist became a key player in Nintendo’s story

Takaya Imamura worked at Nintendo for 32 years before leaving to create his own game, Omega Six. He shares anecdotes from those pivotal years at the creative giant In 1889 in Kyoto, craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a hanafuda playing card company. He called it Nintendo – a phrase whose meaning is lost to time according …

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Donald Trump meme coin price tanks after wife Melania also launches token

The president-elect’s $Trump coin more than halved in value before steadily recovering on Sunday Business live – latest updates The incoming US first lady, Melania Trump, has followed Donald Trump’s lead by launching a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency meme coin – briefly tanking the price of her husband’s coin in the process. The price of the incoming …

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Who banned TikTok? Politicians toss culpability like a football

Claiming a threat from a ‘foreign adversary’, the US has yet to prove China shared propaganda or collected US user data The United States of America deleted TikTok early on the morning of 19 January. A government formed “by the people, for the people”, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, has made scant evidence available …

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Should I be worried about my obsessive TikTok use? My ‘For You’ page doesn’t think so | Emma Beddington

As US users mourn their ‘Chinese spy’ being taken away, my algorithm is busy serving me queer chickens and pastry content As the US TikTok ban looms, users of the app there have been posting farewell messages for their “Chinese spy”, satirising the security concerns behind the ban as they offer up heartfelt appreciations of …

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