Month: March 2025

Guardian understands tech company’s appeal against Home Office request for encrypted data is to be heard by tribunal on Friday Apple’s appeal against a UK government demand to access its customers’ highly encrypted data will be the subject of a secret high court hearing, the Guardian understands. The appeal on Friday will be considered by …

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Surrey was region of UK with most sign-ups for Smartphone Free Childhood’s parent pact, launched last year An online campaign committing parents to bar their children from owning a smartphone until they are at least 14 has garnered 100,000 signatures in the six months since its launch. The Smartphone Free Childhood campaign launched a “parent …

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The new digital ‘mantra’ prompts unions to warn PM to stop blaming problems on Whitehall officials AI should replace the work of government officials where it can be done to the same standard, under new rules that have prompted unions to warn Keir Starmer to stop blaming problems on civil servants. As part of his …

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After failing to recreate success of augmented reality game, Niantic Labs plans to sell its video game division to Scopely Niantic Labs said it would sell its video game division to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely for $3.5bn, as the US augmented reality firm shifts focus to geospatial technology after failing to recreate the success of its …

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Speed through your spring cleaning with our tried and tested steam mops and handheld cleaners, perfect for tackling everything from bathroom floors to kitchen tiles • The best window vacs for clearing condensation If something makes cleaning faster and easier, then it has to be a good thing. Steam mops are a great example, using …

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The comedian shares his list, and it’s mostly a curriculum of comedy classics. Then it gets existential Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Ah the internet, that reservoir of uninformed angry takes, tribalism and all the pornography from human history. Like many people, I wish I used the internet more, particularly social media. In …

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The company is hanging on by a thread amid rumors it may be broken up and sold – an instability keenly felt in Ohio When moving massive metal structures from the Ohio river to its Ohio One Campus semiconductor plant 140 miles to the north, Intel took every minute detail into account. Local school bus …

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As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output The company behind ChatGPT has revealed it has developed an artificial intelligence model that is “good at creative writing”, as the tech sector continues its tussle with the creative industries over copyright. The chief executive …

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Nintendo Switch, iPhone/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); InkleInkle’s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh school As with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for …

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Standing in the driveway of the White House with Tesla vehicles, Trump said he would label violence against the company’s showrooms as domestic terrorism Donald Trump said he is buying a “brand new Tesla” and blamed “Radical Left Lunatics” for “illegally” boycotting Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company. The announcement came a day after Tesla suffered …

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