Devolver Digital; PCPlaying the producer of a seemingly glitzy reality TV show, audiences and cast must be kept happy, no matter how outrageous the request, in easily the funniest game I’ve played all year The developers of The Crush House, Nerial, describe the game as as a “thirst person shooter,” and it’s a surprisingly accurate …
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Catherine Suttle remembers when numbers were three digits, Dan Zerdin’s grandparents thought a ‘naked’ phone was unsightly, and Janette Ward recalls how she rumbled her boss I smiled all the way through Viv Groskop’s article (The hunt for a missing date, the numbers I’ll never forget: we’ll never match the magic of a landline, 2 …
Hackers tried breaking into account of ‘high-ranking official’ on US presidential campaign, researchers say Microsoft researchers said on Friday that Iran government-tied hackers tried breaking into the account of a “high-ranking official” on the US presidential campaign in June, weeks after breaching the account of a county-level US official. The breaches were part of Iranian …
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X owner has cited transgender daughter Vivian’s transition as reason for shift, blaming ‘the woke mind virus’ Once, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest companies approvingly sharing a fabricated headline published by the leadership of a fascist party would have been news. For Elon Musk, it was just Thursday. Unusually for Musk, …
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Lace up your simulators and waggle your joystick for gold, from Mario racing Sonic in the 200m freestyle or pole vaulting on a PlayStation Over the past three weeks the Paris Olympics have provided some spectacular sporting moments, from incredible victories to heartbreaking defeats to Snoop Dogg standing about in full equestrian regalia. For most …
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A Twitch streamer claims to be able to control games with her mind. I thought it was telekinetic baloney – so I went round to give it a go I am sitting in a house in North London with electrodes attached to my temporal lobes to supposedly learn how to control video games with my …
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Last month large parts of Tonga were left without internet when an undersea cable was broken. It’s a scenario that is far more common than is understood It was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge volcanic eruption, when Tonga went dark. The underwater eruption – 1,000 times more powerful than …
Decision from WFA follows X suit accusing advertisers of conspiring to withhold ‘billions of dollars in revenue’ A global advertiser alliance has discontinued its corporate responsibility program after a lawsuit from Elon Musk’s X accused the group of orchestrating a “massive advertiser boycott”. The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) told members on Thursday that it …
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Nuclear site awaits sentencing over breaches that it admitted could have threatened national security Sellafield has apologised after pleading guilty to criminal charges relating to a string of cybersecurity failings at Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site, which it admitted could have threatened national security. Among the failings at the vast nuclear waste dump in Cumbria …
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The Elon Musk-owned platform remains a vital tool for politicians despite misinformation about disorder in Britain When Keir Starmer was running to be Labour leader in 2020, his aides seriously considered whether they should leave Twitter for good. A number of those who remain close to Starmer as prime minister were then enthusiastic about moving …
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