Price of shares in music streaming service leaped after announcement it was laying off almost a fifth of its workforce One of Spotify’s top executives cashed in more than $9m (£7.2m) in shares as the value of the world’s biggest music streaming service surged after it announced it was laying off almost a fifth of …
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In this week’s newsletter: Rob Delaney and Alice Levine investigate the end of the cabinet minister’s career in the latest series of British Scandal • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here GoonedWidely available, episodes weeklyThis shocking series, presented by Emma Lehman, profiles the “troubled teen industry”, which convinces US parents …
Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of what users send or receive, unless a user reports a message Facebook’s parent company has begun rolling out end-to-end encryption across Messenger and Facebook, Meta announced on Thursday. The company’s vice-president for Messenger, Loredana Crisan, said the encryption was built on the …
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Alan Rosa says he objected to budget cuts that would have put Twitter, now X, at risk of violating a security practices settlement A former executive at Twitter, now called X, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired for objecting to budget cuts after Elon Musk acquired the company. The executive said Musk’s proposed …
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Check written to Radio Shack joins a hot market for Jobs’ signature and memorabilia A four-dollar check that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wrote to Radio Shack in 1976 was up for auction on Wednesday at Boston-based RR Auction with a bid of more than $33,000 with five hours left to go. The signed check, drawn …
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In this week’s newsletter: We know we’ll return to Vice City for Rockstar’s next epic – but what else did we learn? • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here It’s 16 September 2013. I’ve just arrived in Japan to cover the Tokyo Game Show. Before I boarded the plane, my …
PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, PC; Massive/Lightstorm/UbisoftTake back Pandora from those puny humans in this spin on Ubisoft’s Far Cry formula It’s rare you’ll find two creative works in such perfect alignment as the cinematic universe of Avatar and the video game series Far Cry. Lush yet dangerous worlds that yearn to be explored? Check. …
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Gemini is being released in form of upgrade to Google’s chatbot Bard but not yet in UK or EU Google has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that it claims outperforms ChatGPT in most tests and displays “advanced reasoning” across multiple formats, including an ability to view and mark a student’s physics homework. The model, …
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The witty singer’s superb comeback is a delight to behold in this entertaining fly-on-the-wall documentary Chris Atkins’ highly entertaining documentary about the soldier turned million-selling singer-songwriter effectively marks the apotheosis of James Blunt’s superb comeback – his rearguard action, in fact, against all the tabloid journalists, trolls and panel-show comics who were using him as …
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For all the billions spent, the dream of these vehicles ruling the roads remains just that. It would be much smarter to focus on public transport Developing driverless cars has been AI’s greatest test. Today we can say it has failed miserably, despite the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars in attempts to produce …
