As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way With a trip to Florence booked, all I want is to rewatch Medici. The 2016 historical drama series tells …
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Figures from digital data company show effect of strict rules brought in last month under Online Safety Act British visits to popular pornography sites have slumped following the introduction of strict age checks last month, data shows. Daily visits to Pornhub, the UK’s most used porn site, fell from 3.6m on 24 July, the day …
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CEO of Tech Council of Australia and Atlassian founder’s argument hinges on whether AI goes on to create something ‘new and novel’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia should adopt US-style copyright law to allow artificial intelligence to suck up all creative content or risk harming investment in the …
‘My daughter and her friends are part of the smartphone generation. The more time I spent with them, the more I learned about the darker side of their mobiles’ This started as a project with my daughter and her friends, who are all part of the smartphone generation. They were 14 years old at the …
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In a world overwhelmed by noise and with more players looking for solace, it’s time the triple-A developers pay attention I am 85 hours into Death Stranding 2, an apocalyptic nightmare about Earth becoming infected with death monsters, and I’ve realised that I’m playing it as a cosy game. For hours at a time, I …
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Who has the time to help underprivileged children when you have a pickleball court and a president to attend to? If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here we are, absorbing a story from the New York …
Playing as ill-used teenager Hinako, players must contend with that era’s sexual politics as well as more unearthly terrors As the humidity rises in 35-degree Tokyo, so too do the dead. Ever since the Edo period, Japanese summertime has been associated with the arrival of supernatural forces – a season defined by malevolent spirits. As …
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Billionaire accuses Apple of ‘unequivocal antitrust violation’ over app rankings, prompting testy response Elon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam …
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Terraform Labs co-founder, pleading guilty to two charges, was accused of misleading investors in 2021 about TerraUSD Do Kwon, the South Korean entrepreneur behind two cryptocurrencies that lost an estimated $40bn in 2022 and caused the market to implode, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two US charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud. Kwon, …
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Nvidia is the world’s first $4tn company – and it just made an astonishing deal with Trump. But who is the company’s founder, Jensen Huang, and what is behind its success? Tae Kim explains It is the richest company in the world, with a market value of $4tn. But while you may know the names …
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