The owner of X is just one of many who may prefer Donald Trump to greater regulation under the Democrats Way back in the 1960s “the personal is political” was a powerful slogan capturing the reality of power dynamics within marriages. Today, an equally meaningful slogan might be that “the technological is political”, to reflect …
The billionaire’s Trump-supporting Pac will give the money to those who sign a petition that encourages Republicans in Pennsylvania to register to vote Elon Musk said his Trump-supporting political action committee – America Pac – will give $1m every day until election day to someone who signs his petition that effectively encourages Republicans in the …
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A gripping audio series about a killer-for-hire scam on the dark web is a reminder of how technology holds up a mirror to human nature This column comes to you as a break from listening to a riveting podcast series called Kill List. It’s about a secret website that journalist and author Carl Miller discovered …
The Dutch-Israeli author on a demonic club hit, her fish fixation, and her love of furniture restoration videos Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1987, Yael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher who lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her work has appeared in publications including LitHub, Electric Literature …
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Using World of Warcraft-style animation, this documentary tells the story of Mats Steen, a boy with muscular dystrophy whose online popularity was only revealed after his death It’s probably just an accident of scheduling, but this deeply affecting documentary is arriving just when there’s a debate raging at the school gates about children’s use of …
Road safety agency opens evaluation over reported collisions in low visibility The US government’s road safety agency has opened an investigation into 2.4m Tesla vehicles with the automaker’s Full Self-Driving software after four reported collisions, including a fatal crash. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Friday said it was opening the preliminary evaluation …
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Matt Garman, head of AWS unit, says ‘there are other companies around’, according to transcript A senior Amazon executive has suggested that staff who do not like the company’s new five-days-a-week office-working policy should quit. The head of the tech company’s cloud computing business told an internal meeting that if employees did not support the …
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Tesla and SpaceX chief’s behavior sets him apart from even the most politically active billionaires – serving as a Trump policy adviser and mega-donor Less than a month before the presidential election, Elon Musk has made himself a near-constant presence in the race. At a rally for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Musk jumps with glee …
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From gamifying your to-do list to going for a regular morning walk, top tips for improving concentration from psychotherapists, health coaches and other experts Forty-seven seconds. That was the average length of time an adult could focus on a screen for in 2021, according to research by Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University …
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Oversight Board says parent company Meta has ‘serious questions’ to answer over two posts allowed to remain online Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta must answer “serious questions” about its handling of anti-immigration material, according to the company’s content watchdog, as it opened an investigation into two Facebook posts. The Oversight Board is investigating Meta’s decision to keep …
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