The tech billionaire and his EV company suffer, Apple castigates itself over Siri failures and a Meta tell-all book evokes a strong reaction Hello, and welcome to TechScape. In this week’s edition: Elon Musk suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Apple beats itself up over Siri, and Meta goes after one of its …
As the 30-year-old studio behind many innovative and beloved video games shuts down, its founders, fans and designers discuss what made it so special Late last month, Warner Bros announced it was closing three of its game development studios in a “strategic change of direction”: WB Games San Diego, Player First Studios, and Monolith Productions. …
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In a statement, 35 signatories from dance, theatre and music industries express concern about ‘fragile ecosystem’ More than 30 performing arts leaders in the UK, including the bosses of the National Theatre, Opera North and the Royal Albert Hall, have joined the chorus of creative industry concern about the government’s plans to let artificial intelligence …
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BYD reveals new platform with charging speeds of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s superchargers Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol and announced for the …
From watching classic samurai movies to rendering the unique way light falls on Japan’s mountainsides and modelling individual characters’ socks, Ubisoft has spared no effort recreating a fascinatingly violent period of history More than four years after its announcement and after two last-minute delays, the latest title in Ubisoft’s historical fiction series Assassin’s Creed will …
Seeing falsehoods everywhere is as damaging as believing too much. Our focus should be on helping people interpret information better On 30 October 1938, a US radio station broadcast a dramatisation of HG Wells’s apocalyptic novel The War of the Worlds. Some listeners, so we’re told, failed to realise what they had tuned into; reports …
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Pavel Durov allowed to leave France, where he is under investigation over criminal activity on messaging app Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of Telegram, has said that he has returned to Dubai after being allowed to leave France, where he was under investigation. Durov was arrested at an airport near Paris last August …
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Cafe owners seeking convivial atmosphere as well as better turnover are starting to deter remote workers “To the Coffee-house, and there all the house full of the discourse of the great fire,” wrote Samuel Pepys of his trip to a 17th-century cafe – then the social nerve centre of London’s gossiping elite. Fast forward to …
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Transparent back, flashing LEDs, novel design, long battery life and huge triple camera help this Android stand out London-based Nothing has brought one of the last things setting top-level phones apart from cheaper mid-range models down to a more affordable price: high-quality camera zoom. Cameras have long been the battleground of the most expensive phones, …
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Leaders on left bet on Musk’s bravado to pull party out of political weeds as CEO eyes social security and health cuts For most of the 17-minute interview, Elon Musk stuck to a script. He was just a tech guy on a mission to “eliminate waste and fraud” from government. His slash-and-burn cost-cutting crusade was …
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