Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: what lies behind Roblox’s success … the ongoing saga of Facebook’s traffic ‘transparency report’ … and Elon Musk’s ‘onesie’ stunt User-generated porn site OnlyFans will become … something else, the company announced on Thursday. From 1 October, it will ban “sexually explicit content”, the material that made …
A thriving new industry, matching people with pro gamers who advise and counsel, has exploded during the pandemic Eighteen months ago, Fabio Dores was making good money as a drag queen. Performing under the name Felicity Suxwell, he had a club residency and worked hen nights throughout the UK, attracting enough bookings to quit his …
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Inspired by a Guardian article, the theatre’s surreal and spellbinding show AI is a collaboration between humans and the system GPT-3 Last autumn, a deep-learning computer programme wrote an essay for the Guardian. The GPT-3 system argued that humans had nothing to fear from robots. Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic, read it …
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Company’s charitable arm will work with hosts willing to offer spaces, but has yet to say where or for how long Airbnb will help house up to 20,000 Afghan refugees, the company has announced, as part of its Airbnb.org charitable arm. The company will coordinate with Airbnb hosts who want to offer their homes to …
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Company won licences for Manchester and Sheffield but faces pressure from Chinese government Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing has reportedly suspended plans to launch in the UK and Europe, as the ride-hailing company faces pressure from authorities in its home market. The company’s plans to launch in the UK and Europe have been pushed back …
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Lockdown or no lockdown, the video-call date is here to stay. Experts reveal how to look your best, keep the conversation flowing and turn that online spark into a face-to-face meeting As if first dates aren’t awkward enough, along comes video dating to add an extra layer of tech frustration and misinterpreted body language to …
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Government wants its own social media platform to replace Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Zoom Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency has said. Ethiopia has been engulfed for the past year in …
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Constance Bailey, 13, was offered a place at Hammond school but her mother could not afford the £90,000 needed A teenage ballerina with autism from the toughest housing estate in Leeds will be able to take up her place at one of the UK’s most prestigious dance schools after Guardian readers and others chipped in …
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Escape to 1980s Oregon, get stuck in an art deco assassin game or liberate a Caribbean island with the help of a dog in this feast of new titles An indie game set in a beautiful lake town with a small cast of locals. Driving around and delivering mail in 1980s Oregon is not exactly …
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Payment platform offers service for bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash PayPal is to allow users in the UK to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies through the payment platform for the first time. The firm said it would allow customers to choose from four types of cryptocurrency – bitcoin, rthereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash – …
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