The meeting in Palm Beach, Florida – reported on by the New York Times – comes as Trump trails president Joe Biden in fundraising Donald Trump met with billionaire Elon Musk in Florida over the weekend as the former Republican president seeks a major cash infusion for his re-election campaign, The New York Times reported. …
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Services refuse login attempts and feeds stall as Google’s platform also experiences login problems Facebook and Instagram are experiencing severe issues, as of Tuesday afternoon UK time, with the services refusing login attempts and feeds stalling. The outages were first reported at about 3.30pm GMT. Unusually, the issues have coincided with login problems on Google’s …
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‘A real-world, newsless Facebook turns out to be more toxic than I had anticipated,’ says Prof Jean-Hughes Roy Misleading viral clickbait dominates Facebook and Instagram in Canada after Meta pulled news from its platforms nine months ago, according to an expert. Now Australia could face a similar scenario online with the company preparing to battle …
Funky design, fun software, decent performance and long battery life provide a lot of phone for the money London-based tech firm Nothing’s latest Android attempts to shake up the budget phone market with something a little more interesting. Costing from £319 (€329/A$529) the Phone 2a aims to take the cool design and intrigue that made …
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Bowie’s 1999 album Hours… was the first to go on sale online before hitting regular stores – and his experimentation caused horror in the music industry It is far from his best album, and not even his best album of the 1990s, but Hours… is David Bowie’s most significant album that decade. Not because of …
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Open source software is the foundation of the digital world, but sometimes it gets into the wrong hands. Plus, how much does Spotify really pay Apple? • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The tech industry is one of the most valuable sectors on the planet, but …
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Suit by former employees, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, follows a separate legal complaint by other workers seeking $500m Elon Musk is facing a $128m lawsuit from four former Twitter executives who allege the billionaire tech mogul failed to pay them severance after buying the social network. The suit, filed on Monday in California, follows a …
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Squeezing high-end features into a more affordable frame makes for an excellent mid-range smart sports tracker Garmin’s latest smart sports watch condenses all the great features from its higher-end Forerunner models into a cheaper, simpler running tracker with a bright OLED screen and long battery life. The Forerunner 165 is the new base model in …
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This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. …
The journalist and podcaster has been scrutinising Silicon Valley for decades, knows all the big players – and once believed that tech could save the world. But that was before greed and ego got in the way “This is about love gone wrong,” says Kara Swisher, looking back on a life spent studying the giants …
