The shift from live TV to video platforms has made toy makers and sellers rethink products and where to sell them Letters to Santa used to be filled with ideas from the Argos catalogue or adverts on children’s telly, but for today’s kids raised on “swiping and streaming” YouTube is their shop window – which …
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Spatial memory is a use-it-or-lose it commodity, so I gave life without Google Maps a try Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than other workers to die of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a Harvard study published in the British Medical Journal. On the one hand, it makes total sense, navigation and spatial memory belonging …
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WhatsApp celebrates victory as judge finds Israeli company NSO Group violated state and federal US hacking laws WhatsApp claimed legal victory over the maker of Pegasus spyware late on Friday. The Israeli company, NSO Group Technologies, was accused in a lawsuit by Meta’s messaging app of infecting and surveilling the phones of 1,400 people over …
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Thirty-three of 44 current and former contract workers who paid large recruiting fees say they didn’t receive refunds after working within the company’s Saudi operations In February, one of the world’s richest employers, Amazon, announced it had refunded nearly $2m to more than 700 overseas workers who had been forced to pay big recruiting fees …
Nonagenarian Tim Watson on why no one, including adults, should be using smartphones. And Carole Gray found her enjoyment of the Van Gogh exhibition impeded by the crowd holding up their phones to take photos Channel 4’s Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones deserves a medal (TV review, 11 December). Its emphasis on the pathological …
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Esports teams, leagues and competitions are flourishing, but poor connectivity and rarity of Africa-based servers are hampering expansion On a recent Sunday afternoon in an upmarket neighbourhood of Nairobi, Daniel Badu was rapidly pressing the screen of his mobile phone, headphones wrapped around his head, his elbows resting on a pillow. Badu and his four …
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Sega started as a rock’n’roll breath of fresh air in a Nintendo-dominated world – and America and Europe CEO Shuji Utsumi wants to shake things up once again For more than a decade, between the late 80s and the dawn of the 21st century, Sega was one of the coolest video game companies on the …
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One algorithm identified the five strongest notes in each drink more accurately than any one of a panel of experts Notch up another win for artificial intelligence. Researchers have used the technology to predict the notes that waft off whisky and determine whether a dram was made in the US or Scotland. The work is …
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Craig Wright given one-year suspended sentence for breaching court order to stop suing bitcoin developers An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence after the high court in London ruled he was in contempt because he would not stop suing people. Mr …
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X owner and billionaire leveraged his platform to amplify false claims about the bill, effectively killing it What is the debt ceiling? Using the power of the social media platform he owns and the threat of spending millions against Republicans in primaries, Elon Musk effectively tanked a congressional spending bill that would have kept the …
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