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Airbnb taskforce that ‘cleans up only after disaster strikes’ intervened after alleged attack, reports Bloomberg Businessweek An Australian woman who was allegedly raped at knifepoint in an Airbnb apartment in New York received a secret settlement of $7m which included restrictions on what she could say about the incident, according to a media investigation into …

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We asked citizens of the internet to send us the funniest things in their extremely online neighbourhood. Here’s what Alex Gallagher supplied There’s no way of dressing it up or making it out to be a more noble, onerous pursuit than it is: I am deeply online. In the decade and a half that I’ve …

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This year’s online-only E3 video game expo was hardly the usual explosion of blockbuster games, but there were still some standout stories We all wanted to see Metroid Prime 4, the long-anticipated first-person science-fiction shooter-adventure that has been in development at Nintendo for an absolute age. But instead we got a whole new Metroid – …

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The California startup leads a global push toward lab-grown meat. But experts question its bold claims In December of last year, a handful of diners sat down to a futuristic meal at 1880, a members-only restaurant in Singapore. The star ingredient was “no kill” chicken – raised not on a farm but in a laboratory …

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Firm says sites are slow to act when warned that fake reviews are being solicited on their platforms Amazon has blamed social media companies for its failure to remove fake reviews from its website, arguing that bad actors turn to social networks to buy and sell fake reviews outside the reach of its own technology. …

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Premium PC with new choice of faster chips, eight-hour battery, great keyboard and face recognition Microsoft’s sleek and stylish Surface Laptop is back for its fourth generation with faster performance and a greater variety of chips. The Surface Laptop 4 is available with either a 13.5in or a 15in screen and starts at £999 in …

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There was no Switch Pro announcement, but Nintendo brought Zelda, Metroid and Warioware to its E3 show Nintendo showed new footage of the long-awaited sequel Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 during its E3 livestream on Tuesday afternoon, along with a tentative launch date of 2022. The company revealed a new teaser for …

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After being laid off during Covid, my dad set his heart on a job at Costco. I told Twitter about it – cue a social media explosion Nearly a year after he’d been laid off because of Covid, my dad – a jubilant, always-smiling, 58-year-old Michigander best known for befriending everyone he meets – told …

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Finding it hard to get things done? Here are some expert strategies to get on top of your job Getting stuff done is hard. Getting stuff done while there is a pandemic rumbling on is almost impossible. Even for work-from-home lifers who haven’t had to make an adjustment to their professional environment, it can be …

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With the urgent need to switch to a more sustainable diet, meet the food technologists coming up with some edible solutions When Grace O’Brien’s friends said they could never go vegan because eggs were “in everything”, it got her thinking about creating an alternative. She experimented with different beans and bases for the recipe, including …

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