An elderly neighbour’s alarm system is linked to a landline, but it is out of order My 97-year-old neighbour has an alarm system supplied by social services linked to her landline. She has a fob she can press to summon help if she has a fall. The problem is that her landline is out of …
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Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of photographing the moon When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and get an Instagram-worthy photograph, but unfortunately the moon is really challenging to get a great photo of. Two reasons: it is very far away …
Device prices may rise, as Acer’s chief operating officer says that on any given day the firm can only fill half of worldwide demand One of the biggest laptop makers in the world, Acer, has said the worldwide global chip shortage will continue to have a “severe” impact on its production capabilities until at least …
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With the touch of a button, a Sydney Opera House audience rewrites Shakespeare as it is performed in front of them On Sunday, as part of the Sydney Opera House’s UnWrapped series, a group of dancers “remixed” Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by way of an Australian storytelling technology, Omelia. A product built to shuffle characters …
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Participants found more or less evidence on hard drive depending on what contextual information they had Devices such as phones, laptops and flash drives are becoming increasingly central to police investigations, but the reliability of digital forensics experts’ evidence has been called into question. A study found that experts tended to find more or less …
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Livestreams change the game for those who can’t access live theatre, writes Richard Lee, while John Warburton thinks all National Theatre productions should be broadcast by the BBC Larry Elliott’s optimistic article (Covid pandemic might unlock doors to golden age for the arts, 23 May) rightly points out the place of technology as the key …
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Gaming is task-driven, repetitive and often frustrating – just like having a job. Childhood isn’t supposed to be so serious There are currently three computer games occupying the house: the 13-year-old (M), sometimes in conjunction with the 11-year-old (F), plays Fortnite, a game mainly about shooting people; the 13-year-old (F), also sometimes with the collaboration …
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Study claims firms paid $96bn less in tax between 2011 and 2020 than the notional figures cited in their annual reports The giant US tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of inflating their stated tax payments by almost $100bn (£70bn) over the past decade. As Chancellor Rishi Sunak called on world …
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Doctors say NHS Digital’s proposals could erode the relationship between them and their patients Doctors have warned that plans to pool medical records on to a database and share them with third parties could erode the relationship between them and patients. The warning came as the Royal College of GPs wrote to NHS Digital urging …
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Instead of paying musicians properly, the likes of Spotify have set up ‘donation’ buttons – thus passing the buck to fans Just over a year ago, the music streaming giant Spotify announced a new addition to its services: an innovation called Artist Fundraising Pick, which would allow people to send musicians the online equivalent of …
