Tax revenues from Silicon Valley giants have made the republic wealthy on paper, but housing and healthcare crises persist In 1956, a chap named TK “Ken” Whitaker, an Irish civil servant who had trained as an economist, was appointed permanent secretary of the finance department in Dublin at the relatively young age of 39. From …
Young people have been made to fear an outside world that is actually safer than the one they’re exposed to online No, the kids are NOT alright. And as our future depends on them, we have to do something about it. This week the US surgeon general, Dr Vivek Murthy, did democracy a great favour …
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Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating Suppose that when your first child turned nine, a visionary billionaire …
Many businesses restrict the forms of payment they will accept – that’s shortsighted and foolish Splitting the bill with Venmo, paying with your Starbucks app, tap-and-go with your phones – how we pay for things has changed forever. But while our options have changed, and are still changing, some small business owners seem determined to …
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Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden is expected to inform parliament on Monday of the attacks China has targeted a group of MPs and peers at Westminster in a string of cyber-attacks, it has been reported. On Monday, the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, is expected to inform parliament of the attacks. Continue reading… Deputy prime …
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GDC 2024 catered to the frustrated and those out of work, with cheaper tickets and a group screaming session Despite the sunny spring skies in San Francisco this week, the mood among nearly 30,000 video game industry professionals was gloomy as they descended upon the city for the yearly Game Developers Conference (GDC). Some were …
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The former CEO of FTX, once a king of cryptocurrency, saw a swift reversal of his fortunes starting in November 2022 In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on the morning of 28 March, tech wunderkind turned fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, unrepentant even after trial and conviction, will finally learn his fate. Bankman-Fried, who founded the cryptocurrency exchange …
The ‘pride and innocence’ of the photographer’s young son and niece are captured in this wedding day image It’s surprising to Craig Atkinson that a decade has passed since he took this photograph. His eldest son Oscar stands to the left of the frame, his niece Emily to the right. Back then, they were five …
The criminal trial over the $11bn sale of Autonomy to HP saw prosecutors calling him ‘Dr Lynch’ – and defense using ‘Mike’ At the height of his career, Mike Lynch – once the UK’s leading tech entrepreneur, hailed as “Britain’s Bill Gates” – sold his software firm to a Silicon Valley giant in an $11bn …
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Real-world rollercoaster designers and the game’s creator, Chris Sawyer, reflect on the impact of the primitive-looking theme park sim that became a late 90s icon ‘I remember I would rush home from school just to play RollerCoaster Tycoon,” recalls John Burton, a senior creative lead at Merlin Entertainments (the owner of UK-based theme parks including …
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