I blew the whistle on inauthentic behavior at Facebook. But authentic misinformation is the bigger problem in the west On 18 May 2021, German YouTuber Mirko Drotschmann tweeted an unusual message: a marketing agency was asking him to share allegedly leaked documents on Covid-19 vaccine deaths. Within a week, French YouTuber Léo Grasset shared similar …
Sinead Stubbins is the first to admit she might know a bit too much about the British personality. Is it creepy? Maybe. Maybe not? Who knows • Internet Wormhole is a new column where Guardian Australia writers take you on a tour of their online obsession. Click here for more Last year, I spent a …
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Mining cryptocurrency requires lots of cheap energy and many miners have settled on Texas as their destination In the middle of rural Texas, a cryptocurrency mine is currently under construction. Hundreds of machines more powerful than the average computer will soon be housed in this 320-acre mining facility in Dickens county, where they will work …
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Lawsuit filed after Blue Origin offered Nasa $2bn if it would change its mind on lunar lander contract Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has sued the US government over Nasa’s decision to award a $2.9bn lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Related: Billionaire space cowboys could become heroes by focusing on the climate crisis Continue …
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• Investigators to review 765,000 vehicles made since 2014 • NHTSA identifies 11 crashes involving first responder vehicles The US government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles. The investigation covers 765,000 vehicles, almost everything that Tesla has sold in the …
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Schools already have pupils’ mobile phone use under control, say leaders in response to government plans School and college leaders have condemned the government’s plan to ban mobile phones from classrooms as outdated and out of touch, arguing that schools should be allowed to decide on appropriate rules. Responding to a Department for Education (DfE) …
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By turns as cerebral as Star Trek, as hopeful as Asimov and as dramatic as Battlestar Galactica, the video game series deserves a place among the sci-fi greats Our species will one day end. Whether it’s down to our own hubris, the disastrous effects of unbridled wealth accumulation and social division, war, the climate crisis, …
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Demand for voice actors increases, providing relief for workers whose other sources of income has dried up Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage It was not only audiences that turned to video games during the pandemic. With theatres closed, and TV and film production on hiatus, British actors chose work they could …
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The artist and social media critic on his work subverting the manipulative practices of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter When the history of the first decades of this century comes to be written, there will be few more telling artworks than Ben Grosser’s film Order of Magnitude. In the 47 minute video, Grosser, a digital artist …
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Within weeks of her appointment to the commission, Facebook and Amazon asked that she be recused from antitrust investigations Lina Khan has some of the biggest companies in the world shaking in their boots. The 32-year-old antitrust scholar and law professor in June became the youngest person in history and the most progressive in more …
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