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Deployment will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into market dominated by SpaceX Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin on Wednesday announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will serve data centers, governments and businesses, jumping into a satellite constellation market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Deployment …

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OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and Stripe are rumoured to be among ten of the biggest companies considering IPOs You’ve probably heard of “unicorns” – technology startups valued at more than $1bn – but 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the “hectocorn”, with several US and European companies potentially floating on stock markets at …

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It is the year 2029 and an LA cop finds himself accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to clear his name before robo-justice sends him down Irish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029, in a world (as they say) …

Mercy review – Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci-fi thriller Read More »

Tory leader says delay will harm children’s mental health after No 10 said it would consult on policy by summer As a parent – and a Conservative – I know that banning social media for under-16s is the right thing to do Kemi Badenoch has called on Keir Starmer to “just get on” with a …

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Snap’s chief executive had been due to testify in civil action also involving Meta, TikTok and YouTube Snapchat’s parent company has settled a civil lawsuit shortly before it was due to start in California, but other large tech companies still face a trial under the case. Snap’s chief executive, Evan Spiegel, had been due to …

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After years away​ revisiting my abandoned island uncovers new features, old memories and the quiet reassurance that ​you can go home again • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Nintendo’s pandemic-era hit Animal Crossing: New Horizons got another major update last week, along with a £5 Switch 2 upgrade that …

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PC; InkleThe UK game developer’s latest is a database mystery constructed from an archive of fictional books. Their combined contents threaten to crack the code of reality Bletchley Park: famed home of the Enigma machine, Colossus computer, and, according to the premise of TR-49, an altogether stranger piece of tech. According to the tantalising lore …

TR-49 review – inventive narrative deduction game steeped in the strangest of wartime secrets Read More »

State provision for psychological health services is lamentable. Until things improve, let’s not judge those who turn to an app for help It’s a sunny afternoon in a Roman park and a peculiar, new-to-this-era kind of coming out is happening between me and my friend Clarissa. She has just asked me if I, like her …

My friends in Italy are using AI therapists. But is that so bad, when a stigma surrounds mental health? | Viola Di Grado Read More »

When I swapped my iPhone for a Nokia, Walkman, film camera and physical map, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But my life soon started to change When two balaclava-clad men on a motorbike mounted the pavement to rob me, recently, I remained oblivious. My eyes were pinned to a text message on my phone, …

My analogue month: would ditching my smartphone make me healthier, happier – or more stressed? Read More »

Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who has run away from the moon Never has a film been more deserving of an exclamation mark at the end of the title than this animation from Japan. Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is an adaptation of a …

Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld Read More »