For years, Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal? She is always listening. She is unfailingly polite. She is often obtuse. She is sometimes helpful. She frequently frustrates. She isn’t great with bashment artists. Or grime. Or drum’n’bass. She needs to be spoken to …
The government has doubled down on a plans that would allow mass cultural theft, but we are fighting it at every stage Beeban Kidron is a film director and crossbench peer in the House of Lords For months now, legends of music, literature, product design, the visual arts and more have been sounding the alarm …
Top US marketing professor Scott Galloway says on Pivot podcast Tesla owner ‘has alienated his core demographic’ The prominent US marketing professor Scott Galloway says Elon Musk’s decision to implement brutal job and spending cuts within the federal government on behalf of the Trump administration was “one of the greatest brand destructions” ever. Speaking on …
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Announcement wipes about $70bn off Apple shares amid pressure on company to build smartphones in US Business live – latest updates Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on iPhones if they are not made in the United States, as he stepped up the pressure on Apple to build its signature product in …
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Tens of millions of internet users in China’s Henan denied access to five times more websites than usual China’s authorities appear to have implemented an enhanced version of the country’s internet censorship regime in the central province of Henan, subjecting tens of millions of residents to even stricter controls on access to information than people …
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Arrest warrants issued for ringleaders after investigation by police in Europe and North America European and North American cybercrime investigators say they have dismantled the heart of a malware operation directed by Russian criminals after a global operation involving British, Canadian, Danish, Dutch, French, German and US police. International arrest warrants have been issued for …
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Successful podcasters are filming their shows, putting traditional platforms under pressure. Does it add value or reflect YouTube’s increasing might? It is four in the afternoon at Pellicci’s, a family-run cafe on Bethnal Green Road in London that has been an East End institution for 125 years. Its famously loudmouthed owners, British-Italian siblings Nevio and …
Murderous mansions with carnivorous toilets or a fantasy lighthouse on misty shores, every gamer has a favourite property – we list our favourites This year’s surprise hit Blue Prince is a proper video game wonder. It’s an architectural puzzler in which you explore a transforming mansion left to you by an eccentric relative. The place …
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Starbase in Texas, where the world’s richest man has a rocket-launching facility, was incorporated this week. Mars obsessives are flocking there – but some long-term locals are far from happy Along a flat coastal highway in south-east Texas, surrounded by wetlands and open plains, the artefacts of a new American oligarchy appear in quick succession. …
Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today Artificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed. The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, …
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