Recording concerts has become a compulsion for many. I’m resolving to put my device away and just dance: I hope others follow I’m making a public vow, which I fear I may abandon the moment Lana Del Rey comes on stage at Wembley in July: to stop recording concerts on my phone. Last Sunday, producer …
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Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community expected to approve plan to create new city Voters in a small patch of south Texas are casting their ballots on Saturday in an election that could give Elon Musk a town to call his own. The vote would officially create a new …
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After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads business Google on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for …
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‘Digital nutritionist’ Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned “digital nutritionist”. These two measures, …
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Readers respond to a piece by John Harris on how we are increasingly leaving navigation to our phones John Harris’s observations on the implications of using unsuitable phone apps for navigation when walking in the wilds resonated with me (We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost, …
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Company’s founder plans to offload up to 25m shares through a trading plan Business live – latest updates Jeff Bezos is preparing to sell up to $4.75bn (£3.6bn) worth of Amazon stock over the next year, according to a regulatory filing made on Friday. The technology company’s executive chair and former chief executive plans to …
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission also found the video app provided ‘erroneous information’ to its inquiry TikTok has been fined €530m (£452m) by an Irish watchdog over a failure to protect some European user data from being used by the Chinese government. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) regulates TikTok across the European Economic Area (EEA), which …
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Much anticipated title was due in autumn but fans will now have to wait another year after the announcement by Rockstar Games Rockstar Games has delayed the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI until 26 May, 2026. The game had been scheduled for release this autumn, but the lack of a definite date was beginning …
Luxury department store is forced to shut some systems but website and shops continue to operate Harrods has been hit by a cyber-attack, just days after Marks & Spencer and the Co-op were targeted. The luxury department store is understood to have been forced to shut down some systems, but said its website and all …
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Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone Over the last couple of weeks I have been tidying our attic, and while the general aim has been to prevent its contents from collapsing through the ceiling, I have a side-mission. …
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