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Zillow reportedly has about 7,000 homes that it now needs to unload – many for prices lower than it originally paid Online shopping can be dangerous, as the US property website Zillow has belatedly come to realize. While many of us wasted countless hours during the pandemic clicking through real estate listings on Zillow and …

When side hustles go wrong: real-estate site Zillow loses $300m in a few months Read More »

Company says cost of adding homes to new network has dropped 15%, and ‘we can fund it ourselves’ BT has scrapped plans to find a joint venture partner to help fund the rollout of its next-generation broadband network to an extra 5 million homes, ahead of a potential takeover move by billionaire investor Patrick Drahi …

BT scraps hunt for Openreach partner as fibre rollout costs fall Read More »

Xbox Series S/X; Playground Games/MicrosoftTake a supercar for a beach challenge or drive into the Mexican jungle in this racing game that’s exactly as fun as its last version As we limp towards the end of 2021, I don’t think I’ve ever needed a holiday so much, and Forza Horizon 5 is here to provide …

Forza Horizon 5 review – a much-needed road-trip fantasy Read More »

I’m determined to hold out for as long as I can, but these days you need a QR code for everything from ordering at a restaurant to boarding a flight I’ve always gotten by fine without owning a smartphone – until now. Covid has made my already obsolete 90s-designed Nokia flip-phone nearly useless. I’m suddenly …

My life without a smartphone is getting harder and harder | Jen Wasserstein Read More »

This wildly hagiographic documentary about the billionaires fiddling with their massive rockets will have you cringing all the way into suborbital space For a documentary created with the Washington Post, a newspaper owned by a company controlled by Jeff Bezos, the new Discovery+ special Space Titans has an impressive amount of Elon Musk in it. …

Space Titans review – Bezos, Musk and Branson battle to blast their loads Read More »

A new analysis reveals that an estimated 818,000 climate misinformation posts received 1.36m views everyday The scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is “staggering” and “increasing quite substantially”, a new analysis of hundreds of thousands of posts has found. A report released on Thursday by the Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent watchdog group, and …

Climate misinformation on Facebook ‘increasing substantially’, study says Read More »

Analysis: The question now is what effect the US move will have on Israel and on foreign governments who use NSO’s spyware The US commerce department’s blacklist is usually reserved for America’s worst enemies, such as Chinese companies that have been accused of aiding human right abuses, and Russians who proliferate biological and chemical weapons …

US blacklisting of NSO Group shows view of major technology company as a grave threat Read More »

Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook, also calls misuse of user data as unethical as child labour A former adviser to Mark Zuckerberg has said democracy “may never recover” if Facebook does not change and has called for misuse of users’ data to be labelled as unethical as child labour. Roger McNamee, an early …

Democracy at risk if Facebook does not change, says former Zuckerberg adviser Read More »

Decision against company at heart of Pegasus project reflects deep concern about impact of spyware on US national security interests NSO Group has been placed on a US blacklist by the Biden administration after it determined the Israeli spyware maker has acted “contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the US”. The …

Israeli spyware company NSO Group placed on US blacklist Read More »

It takes special design to keep players exploring, and game developer Arkane, known for its refined aesthetic, has some unexpected sources This year, there is one game world I have enjoyed exploring more than any other. We’re so spoiled for visually rich open environments these days, it takes something special to keep players immersed, to …

Deathloop: how Arkane used Frank Lloyd Wright, Tarantino and Twiggy to build a world Read More »