PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox OneA bundle of 32 retro games offers classic Street Fighter action, ghostly quests, air battles – with the added bonus of not having to stop when your pocket money runs out Retro game collections can be a dispiriting experience for fans. Poorly translated versions, badly curated and thrown on to a …
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Labor is set to question executives in an estimates hearing after data reveals employees were paid $77.5m in cash bonuses in 2020 Hundreds of NBN Co staff on $200,000 and above a year were paid an average bonus of almost $50,000 last year, according to new data. Earlier this year – while everyone was talking …
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Sony’s Freeview TV staple has a new name, with an exclamation mark to show how exciting it is! What’s the thinking behind the rebrand? And who’s watching? As of this week, the Sony Movie Channel is no more. A staple of the Freeview era of television, the SMC and its spin-offs have allowed viewers to …
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Campaign failed to say investment was complex, volatile and could expose investors to losses, says ASA An ad campaign telling the public that “it’s time to buy” bitcoin has been banned after the advertising watchdog ruled that it was irresponsible and misleading. The high-profile campaign, which has featured heavily across the London underground and the …
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Lawsuit says controversial new laws are unconstitutional and violate the right to the preservation of privacy WhatsApp has sued the Indian government over new internet laws which the company says will “severely undermine” the privacy of their users. The new IT laws, which have been called oppressive and draconian, give the Indian government greater power …
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Cumberbatch and McKellen among big names to appears in live-recorded stage shows to feature on Prime Amazon has partnered with the National Theatre to stream four high-profile live-recorded stage shows, including Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag. The shows, which include Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in 2011’s Frankenstein, will be made available to Amazon’s Prime Video …
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Ofgem to build infrastructure for 3,550 new ultra-rapid charging points on motorways and in towns Britain’s energy regulator is investing £300m to help triple the number of ultra-rapid charging points for electric vehicles across the country, as part of efforts to accelerate the UK’s shift to clean energy. Ofgem will use the cash to build …
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Investors are betting the big chains won’t be able to compete with startups that bring your shopping within minutes Over the past year, you may have noticed the rapid growth in all kinds of app-based delivery services. For a while, supermarkets weren’t involved: traditionally, the industry does not grow very much. The margins are small, …
Historians are aghast that the National Archives have had to resort to crowdfunding to protect irreplaceable historical records Historians are calling it an international embarrassment for Australia and saying it is “inconceivable that it has come to this”, as they preemptively mourn the loss of “irreplaceable national history”. The National Archives of Australia doesn’t often …
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The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the 3D printer could change the world, and her optimism about women in science Chiara Marletto is a research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her research is in theoretical physics – especially quantum computation, thermodynamics and information theory. …
