Participants found more or less evidence on hard drive depending on what contextual information they had Devices such as phones, laptops and flash drives are becoming increasingly central to police investigations, but the reliability of digital forensics experts’ evidence has been called into question. A study found that experts tended to find more or less …
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Livestreams change the game for those who can’t access live theatre, writes Richard Lee, while John Warburton thinks all National Theatre productions should be broadcast by the BBC Larry Elliott’s optimistic article (Covid pandemic might unlock doors to golden age for the arts, 23 May) rightly points out the place of technology as the key …
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Gaming is task-driven, repetitive and often frustrating – just like having a job. Childhood isn’t supposed to be so serious There are currently three computer games occupying the house: the 13-year-old (M), sometimes in conjunction with the 11-year-old (F), plays Fortnite, a game mainly about shooting people; the 13-year-old (F), also sometimes with the collaboration …
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Study claims firms paid $96bn less in tax between 2011 and 2020 than the notional figures cited in their annual reports The giant US tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of inflating their stated tax payments by almost $100bn (£70bn) over the past decade. As Chancellor Rishi Sunak called on world …
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Doctors say NHS Digital’s proposals could erode the relationship between them and their patients Doctors have warned that plans to pool medical records on to a database and share them with third parties could erode the relationship between them and patients. The warning came as the Royal College of GPs wrote to NHS Digital urging …
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Instead of paying musicians properly, the likes of Spotify have set up ‘donation’ buttons – thus passing the buck to fans Just over a year ago, the music streaming giant Spotify announced a new addition to its services: an innovation called Artist Fundraising Pick, which would allow people to send musicians the online equivalent of …
From live streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon The stage on screen: our guide to films about theatre Paul Miller, artistic director of Richmond’s Orange Tree theatre, continues his fine run of George Bernard Shaw productions with this pair of …
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Worldwide shift to flexible and home working in pandemic has led to rise of new kind of backpacker Home working drives demand for ‘shoffice’ space in UK gardens Samantha Scott does not miss her daily commutes in London, particularly “the dread of having to wake up and get on the tube, and heading into work …
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Our reliance on technology means ever more devices and apps and ever less interoperability – and the ubiquity of Apple hasn’t helped In 2001, if you listened to digital music, you did it with a large folder of MP3 files. How you acquired them is probably best left between you and a priest, but you …
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The pay-TV giant has the chance to turn popular films into ‘universes’ of stories – and steal a march in the content-hungry streaming wars Amazon’s $8.5bn deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio behind James Bond, The Handmaid’s Tale and Gone With the Wind, has secured it the rights to a century’s worth of TV …
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