While my friends swapped funny videos on their smartphones, I enjoyed my freedom. Then society made that impossible My gran has a new smartphone, and I am trying to help her navigate it. But she doesn’t see the point. She says her smartphone is “malevolent, sneaky and sly” because things on the screen disappear and …
Acts gathering in Birmingham for Elvis championships welcome forthcoming hi-tech concert experience Every year for more than two decades, Elvis Presley tribute acts have gathered at the European Elvis Championships competing to become that year’s king of rock’n’roll. But at this year’s event in Birmingham there was one particular Elvis on everyone’s lips – hologram …
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Recall reportedly affects majority of cars firm has sold in China and follows recall of more than 2m Teslas in the US last month Tesla is recalling more than 1.6m Model S, X, 3 and Y electric vehicles exported to China for problems with their automatic assisted steering and door latch controls. The recall, Tesla’s …
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British YouTube star posted a weekly video for 10 years, about everything from pegasus crossings to the National Grid Ten years ago, Tom Scott held up his phone camera and recorded a 90-second video about traffic lights on bridleways. In Britain, we have pelican crossings, toucan crossings and puffin crossings, he explained, “and then, because …
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Many feel unhappy with their dependence on their cellphone, a wide-ranging Guardian project has found, but some insist not all screen time is equal • Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone Doomscrolling, mindlessly cycling through apps and feeling an urge to check your phone – …
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After a labyrinth of menus as intuitive as dadaist poetry, players are rewarded with knockoffs of decades-old games too maliciously bad to have been designed by AI I am trying out YouTube Premium’s games, but I can’t find them. I assumed I would boot up the app and there would be a big red button …
Laws in the state have yet to catch up to autonomous vehicles, even though hundreds are already on the road Autonomous vehicles in San Francisco are exempt from traffic tickets if there is nobody in the driver’s seat, according to the San Francisco police department (SFPD), underscoring ongoing legal and safety concerns surrounding the expanding …
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As AI and tech make their presence felt, new companies are emerging and older ones are adapting After a year in which industry was knocked off its axis by the coming of age of artificial intelligence and the transition to an online world continued apace, new businesses are emerging and old industries reinventing themselves to …
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Two licensed handhelds from Taito and Capcom come with a host of old favourites from their back catalogues, and the quality of the game emulation is excellent The world is certainly not short of retro video game hardware these days. We have the array of official Mini consoles released by Sega and Nintendo, and then …
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A killing in Belize which seems to implicate a British aristocrat takes a strange turn in White Devil. Plus: five of the best podcasts to get you through the dark days of winter • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Andrew Scott caused quite a stir on a recent podcast …
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