This week: mornings made better, affordable jewellery and the ultimate wild swimming kit list • Don’t get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I’ve always disliked getting up in winter. As a kid, I’d hurkle-durkle while blearily watching my school uniform warming on the radiator. These days, I set smartphone alarms for …
Huge glass and metal slab packs super-fast chip, long battery life and unrivalled camera zoom, but its AI features are overhyped The Ultra is Samsung’s largest and greatest phone and is packed to the gills with the very latest technology, which means more artificial intelligence than ever before. The Galaxy S25 Ultra is at the …
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Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed Nadia Odunayo never planned to take on the mighty global juggernaut that is Amazon, but for many book lovers, she has become the hero they didn’t know they needed. For 18 years, bibliophiles have been able to catalogue …
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GMB says 60 workers have been targeted, with disciplinary action increasing significantly, but company denies claims Amazon has been accused of targeting 60 trade union members with disciplinary action after narrowly defeating a recognition vote at its Coventry warehouse last summer. The GMB trade union said all 60 workers were involved in action at the …
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Demonstrations across the US against tycoon’s ties to Trump highlight potential risks to firm’s reputation and sales Protesters gathered outside Tesla dealerships across the US on Saturday in response to Elon Musk’s efforts to shred government spending under the president, Donald Trump. Groups of demonstrators up to 100-strong gathered outside the electric carmaker’s showrooms in …
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The Kids Online Safety act passed the Senate 91-to-3 but died in the House. Advocates on both sides say they won’t give up When Congress adjourned for the holidays in December, a landmark bill meant to overhaul how tech companies protect their youngest users had officially failed to pass. Introduced in 2022, the Kids Online …
Defense and tech firms – including Musk’s own – await potential contracts as Doge decimates US agencies The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has vowed to oversee a radical hollowing out of government agencies, asserting this week that some should be “deleted entirely” as he defunds public programs and lays off federal workers. While the …
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Silicon Valley wants to spend a fortune on the fantasy of human-level intelligence. But there are more practical and valuable things to achieve There’s a moment in the 1967 film The Graduate that has become renowned. At a party thrown by his parents to celebrate his graduation, Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) is approached by Mr McGuire, …
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Thanks to Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders attacking a number of terms, ‘women’ is literally being erased Thanks to the intolerant left, nobody can say the word “women” anymore! Do you remember when that was a major talking point in certain quarters? Prominent columnists wrote endless pieces declaring that the word “women” had “become verboten”. …
Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked Read More »
Exclusive: Barristers at Doughty Street Chambers say they have been subject to surveillance, hacking and rape threats UK-based lawyers have spoken out about being targeted by the Chinese state and its supporters in a campaign of intimidation including surveillance, hacking of bank accounts and rape threats. The barristers, from Doughty Street Chambers in London, say …
UK-based lawyers for Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai targeted by Chinese state Read More »
