Almost half of girls aged 11 to 21 in Girlguiding survey say sexism and misogyny makes them feel less safe Girls and young women are seeing more unwanted sexual images and suffering more cyberstalking online, but still don’t want to take a break from social media because of a fear of missing out, a survey …
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Google must make Android apps available from competing sources and cannot forbid use of in-app payment methods A US judge on Monday ordered Alphabet’s Google to overhaul its mobile app business to give Android users more options to download apps and to pay for transactions within them, following a jury verdict last year for the …
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The series’ return was heralded by a Tears for Fears song – an unexpected tone for its chainsaw-guns and gore. We revisit how a splintering marriage gave birth to gaming’s saddest shooter At the Xbox Games Showcase this June, Microsoft debuted a trailer for the eighth game in the violent, grandiose and unexpectedly maudlin Gears …
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Signatories to online pledge say it offers support in family reckonings over phone usage Classroom peer pressure is a problem for any parent considering a smartphone ban for their child. So when the Smartphone Free Childhood (SFC) movement launched an online pledge to withhold the devices from children until they are at least 14, thousands …
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Hackney group Rise.365 is trying to tackle poor representation and spark discussions about discrimination with new designs In her first year of culinary school, Reanna Bryan, 18, was told her braided hairstyle was not suitable for the kitchen. “I was like, ‘What do you mean, you can’t have braids or dreads?’ because this is what …
As blogging pioneer Dave Winer’s site turns 30, it’s a reminder that good writing and thinking has flourished beyond the reach of social media If you log into Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, you’ll find a constantly updated note telling you how many years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds the blog has been running. …
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The photographer and film-maker celebrates the beauty of brotherhood and male companionship ‘Brotherhood and male affection are rarely seen in a culture typically painted as hyper-masculine by the west,” says Justin Attah Mensah, a film-maker and photographer from Accra, Ghana. “This image showcases the beauty in this companionship, and celebrates it.” Mensah had travelled to …
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Other submissions included a vertical grand piano, smart goalie gloves and cheese made of potatoes A robot dog that does the vacuuming, a flatpack coffin and a cross between a cookie and a cake were among the things that UK-based inventors thought up last year. A Guardian analysis of patent applications listed by the Intellectual …
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The billionaire was raging on his platform, X, but Fema and the transportation secretary say accusations are false Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, shot down criticism by Elon Musk on the governments’ handling of Hurricane Helene relief efforts, accusing the SpaceX CEO of spreading misinformation. Musk accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) of blocking …
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Facebook owner claims Movie Gen can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips that rival competitors’ Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Friday it had built a new artificial intelligence model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from …
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