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In this week’s newsletter: From platformers to side-scrolling space adventures and top-down racers, every experience from your gaming youth is recreated with passion and skill • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I filed this issue of Pushing Buttons late, because I have become obsessed with a 1985 strategy game …

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In 2004, Fable was as famous for what it didn’t deliver as for what it did. But this Python-esque fantasy game deserves to be remembered for more than that In 1985, brothers Dene and Simon Carter vowed to each other that they would one day start their own development studio together. The game they imagined …

Fable at 20: a uniquely British video game with a complex legacy Read More »

Android cuts telephoto camera and high-end AI features for lower price, but ends up a little lost in the mix Google’s cheapest Pixel 9 offers almost everything that makes its top-flight sibling one of the best smaller phones available, cutting a few key ingredients to price match Apple and Samsung. The Pixel 9 costs £799 …

Google Pixel 9 review: a good phone overshadowed by great ones Read More »

Officials say there is no indication Biden campaign responded to the emails, which offered information stolen from Trump campaign Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, …

Iran sent hacked Trump documents to Biden campaign, FBI says Read More »

Social media platform routes internet traffic outside of Brazil using a communications network update Social media platform Twitter/X became accessible to many users in Brazil on Wednesday as an update to its communications network circumvented a block order by the country’s supreme court. The X update used cloud services offered by third parties, allowing some …

Elon Musk’s X circumvents court-ordered block in Brazil Read More »

The board has rejected both of Anne Wojcicki’s buyout proposals to save the struggling genetics company Seven of eight members of 23andMe’s board have resigned in yet another blow to the struggling genetics company. The CEO is now the only remaining member. The independent directors of the genetic testing firm said in a letter posted …

All 23andMe board members but CEO resign over no adequate buyout offers Read More »

Major entertainment company gives Runway access to vast portfolio to help film-makers ‘augment their work’ Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial intelligence research firm Runway, allowing it access to the company’s large film and TV library to train a new generative model. According to the Wall Street Journal, the model will be “customized …

Lionsgate partners with AI firm to train generative model on film and TV library Read More »

Ex-president announces World Liberty Financial and publicly addresses second apparent assassination attempt Donald Trump launched his family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, on a livestreamed interview on the social media platform X on Monday. The Republican presidential nominee gave few details about the venture but did offer his first public comments on the apparent assassination …

Trump launches new cryptocurrency venture but declines to share details Read More »

Nordic country, paradoxically a major oil producer, has set target for all new cars sold to be zero emission Electric cars now outnumber petrol cars in Norway for the first time, an industry organisation has said, a world first that puts the country on track towards taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road. Of the …

Norway: electric cars outnumber petrol for first time in ‘historic milestone’ Read More »

Doctors are using the technology for activities such as suggesting diagnoses and writing letters, according to BMA A fifth of GPs are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT to help with tasks such as writing letters for their patients after appointments, according to a survey. The survey, published in the journal BMJ Health …

One in five GPs use AI such as ChatGPT for daily tasks, survey finds Read More »