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Vacuum cleaner maker claims large parts of business are impossible to carry out from home Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The vacuum cleaner maker Dyson has told many of its UK employees to continue working in the office, claiming that large portions of its business are impossible to carry out from …

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Nuclear Biscuit, a simulated experience, allows US officials to wargame a missile attack and see the devastating consequences of their choices It became clear that things had gone terribly awry on this particular day when I saw that the most moderate option on the desk in front of me involved killing at least five million …

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State government employees advised to change passwords and monitor bank accounts after massive payroll data breach Records including the name, tax file number and banking details of almost 80,000 South Australian government employees may have been stolen in a cyber-attack, with workers advised to assume their personal information has been stolen. The South Australian treasurer, …

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Federal authorities investigate disaster in Edwardsville, Illinois, where six people died Questions over worker safety at Amazon are intensifying once again after a tornado struck an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday, leaving six people dead and another hospitalized. On Monday, the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration said it opened a workplace safety …

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Publication cites Tesla boss’s influence ‘for good or ill’, but accolade is criticised over billionaire’s attitude to tax, unions and Covid Time magazine’s decision to make Tesla billionaire Elon Musk its person of the year for 2021 has been criticised because of his attitude to tax, opposition to unions and playing down the dangers of …

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Thea-Mai Baumann had used the account for more than a decade but it suddenly vanished, taking all her work with it An Instagram user with the handle @metaverse last month found herself blocked from her account, which featured a decade of her life and work – after parent company Facebook changed its corporate name to …

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(Exbleative; Future Friends Games; Xbox One, PC)Soar across alien vistas powered only by kinetic energy in this interplanetary search for the mysterious, life-giving monolith Exo One transposes the humble, tactile pleasures of rolling a marble along a gulley or skimming a pebble across a clear lake into a planet-straddling adventure told with all the humming …

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From the very first game on the console to a lonely space-rodent and a rejuvenated Spider-Man, these are our best picks for the PS5 One of the most quietly significant games of the 00s has been transformed here into a visually incredible, endlessly rewarding dark fantasy. Make your way through imposing medieval castles, a horrendous …

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Technology industry issues warning before MPs and peers publish report on online safety bill Introducing criminal sanctions for tech executives in the online safety bill could be copied by non-democratic regimes, the industry has claimed before an influential report this week. A joint committee of MPs and peers scrutinising the bill will publish its findings …

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Analysts expect 71m VR and AR devices will be sold in 2025, and a new ecosystem of apps is coming Trying on clothes without stepping into a changing room, seeing your menu choices in 3D, viewing an art gallery’s contents outdoors and, of course, catching a Pokémon. This is the world of augmented reality, and …

Matrix effects, routes on your specs: what next for augmented reality? Read More »