It’s easy to blame viral videos – and far harder to change the culture in which they thrive Among those swiftly convicted and sentenced last week for their part in the racist rioting was Bobby Shirbon, who had left his 18th birthday party at a bingo hall in Hartlepool to join the mob roaming the …
Spokesperson Steven Cheung accuses ‘foreign sources hostile to the United States’ of leaking internal documents Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said on Saturday it had been hacked. Campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung released a statement about the alleged hack, following reports from Politico that it had begun receiving emails from an anonymous account with internal documents from …
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An abandoned Australian ‘experiment’ shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progress Scratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel …
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The networking site one is calling a ‘cesspool’ is riddled with oversharing and lunatics – it’s time for change In need of a laugh? Spend an hour or two on the subreddit LinkedInLunatics. Trust me. There’s the financial expert who believes it necessary to share with his friends, clients and community that he enjoys watching …
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Personalised videos from celebrities such as Elijah Wood were a lockdown hit for a firm once valued at £1bn. Now A-listers have deserted it – though there’s always Nigel Farage It started, as many things do, with drama in the WhatsApp group. It was 2021, and a loose coalition of my friends and acquaintances was …
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A mirrored image shows how the photographer uses self-portraiture to explore feminism, motherhood and identity Heather McAlister was staying in a remote California farming community when she took this self-portrait. “We were staying in Tomales, near the Point Reyes national seashore. The landscape is known for its simple farmhouse architecture and green hills lined with windswept …
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Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in tech, had been living with cancer for two years Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube CEO and one of the first Google employees, has died at the age of 56 after two years of living with cancer. Her husband, Dennis Troper, announced the news of her death on …
There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVs Elon Musk has long flirted with rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire’s political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the …
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The England men’s team’s first foreign manager was blamed for their failure and had his private life splashed across the tabloids. Now, with months to live, he’s got some scores to settle Sven-Göran Eriksson is saying his farewells to the world. The former England men’s football manager has pancreatic cancer, and is approaching the end …
Change in policy means developers will be able to communicate with customers outside App Store Apple on Thursday changed its policy in the European Union to allow developers to communicate with their customers outside its App Store after the commission charged the iPhone maker in June for breaching the bloc’s tech rules. The commission had …
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