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Hundreds of writers, musicians and performers urge licensing deals instead of scraping creative work Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, REM and Jodi Picoult are among hundreds of Hollywood stars, musicians and authors backing a new campaign accusing AI companies of “theft” of their work. The “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” drive launched on Thursday with the support of …

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The president wants big tech to pay more for electricity, but he’s curbing renewable projects that could boost supply Donald Trump is worried about datacenters. Specifically, he is concerned about their effects on an already expensive electricity market in the United States. Will Americans’ resentment of sharply rising energy costs scuttle his party’s November election …

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Quake Brutalist Jam began as a celebration of old-fashioned shooter level design, but its latest version is one step away from being a game in its own right A lone concrete spire stands in a shallow bowl of rock, sheltering a rusted trapdoor from the elements. Standing on the trapdoor causes it to yawn open …

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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 …

The year of the ‘hectocorn’: the $100bn tech companies that could float in 2026 Read More »

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) …

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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 …

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