In this week’s newsletter: Stranger Things’ climactic showdown is the latest pop culture spectacle to feel like its been ported straight from a console. The industries’ reciprocally influential relationship can be to everyone’s gain • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It had begun to feel like an endurance test …
They may be small, but toothbrushes can create mountains of waste. Experts reveal how to clean and care for them and extend their life • The best electric toothbrushes, tested If toothbrushes were sentient, they’d complain about their lot in life. Their thankless existence involves repeatedly cleaning one of the grimmest parts of the body, …
This now venerable hardware remains an ideal platform for classics such as Minecraft and daring experiments from the brightest new developers Now surely approaching their twilight years, the Xbox Series S and X machines nevertheless still have plenty to offer both new and veteran owners. We have selected 15 titles that show the range of …
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AI company’s chatbot faces criticism over its generation of sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and girls Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has raised $20bn in its latest funding round, the startup announced Tuesday, even as its marquee chatbot Grok faces backlash over generating sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and underage girls. xAI’s Series E funding …
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If you want to doomscroll less this year, try these realistic tips from screen time coaches Simple daily rituals for building fun, calm and play into your days in 2026 Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things I wish time travel were real. If it were, I’d …
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The owner of X has grown used to acting with impunity – but this may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speech It’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, …
Liz Kendall calls on X to ‘deal with this urgently’ while expert criticises ‘worryingly slow’ government response The UK technology secretary has called a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed generated by Elon Musk’s Grok AI “appalling and unacceptable in decent society”. After thousands of intimate deepfakes circulated online, …
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The conveniences of modern life such as Uber Eats and ChatGPT are robbing us of satisfaction – and worse still, infantilising us. But should we really go back to the basics? Name: Friction-maxxing. Age: Brand new. Continue reading… The conveniences of modern life such as Uber Eats and ChatGPT are robbing us of satisfaction – …
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New mind-bending puzzlers, landmark RPGs and furry multiverse adventures await you as the PlayStation 5 enters its sixth year Entering its sixth year, the PlayStation 5 has built up a formidable library of epic adventures, button-pummelling shooters and even the odd cutesy platformer. So whether you’ve owned the machine for years or only just entered …
Lack of verified information and rapidly advanced AI tools make it difficult to separate fact from fiction on US attack Minutes after Donald Trump announced a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela early on Saturday morning, false and misleading AI-generated images began flooding social media. There were fake photos of Nicolás Maduro being escorted off a plane …
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