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Nothing Phone 1 review: an Android with funky lights on its transparent back

Novel design, good cameras, solid performance and battery life make a competitively priced package The Phone 1 is the first smartphone from the British technology startup Nothing, led by the OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, who set up on his own with the aim of bringing back a bit of interest and excitement to the increasingly …

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Musk’s lawyers subpoena big banks for records on Twitter deal – report

Billionaire seeks material on how JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs advised platform during negotiations Lawyers for Elon Musk have reportedly subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs for records relating to the billionaire’s plan to purchase Twitter. Musk has requested the banks turn over “documents and communications” relating to how they advised Twitter during negotiations, which Musk …

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Hacking attack drains £5m from 8,000 wallets linked to Solana crypto network

Solana Foundation, supporter of blockchain network, says ‘malicious actor’ has taken funds Nearly $6m (£4.9m) has been drained from accounts linked to the Solana crypto network after a hacker targeted 8,000 wallets. The Solana Foundation, an organisation that supports the blockchain network, said a “malicious actor” had taken funds from a number of wallets linked …

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Airbnb apologizes for slave cabin for rent in Mississippi

The listing was lambasted in a viral TikTok video and was taken down by the company Airbnb publicly apologized after it allowed a property owner to list an “1830s slave cabin” for rent in Greenville, Mississippi. In a TikTok video that went viral, a New-Orleans civil rights and entertainment lawyer, Wynton Yates, criticized the listing, …

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UK parliament closes TikTok account after Tory criticism of app’s China links

MPs including Tom Tugendhat and Iain Duncan Smith express fears Beijing may be able to access users’ personal data The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account following objections from senior Conservative politicians about the social video app’s connections to China. The speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords said they had …

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A midlife crisis in space: the Alters is a sci-fi comedy starring hapless clones

Featuring an astronaut trapped on a space station with only his alternate selves for company, 11 Bit Studios’ next game walks the line between comedy and commentary A sci-fi management sim from the team behind climate crisis fable Frostpunk, The Alters turns the classic video game concept of the “extra life” into a source of …

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‘European at heart’: sense and sensibility behind Nick Clegg’s return

Meta’s president of global affairs is heading back to London, having never hidden his longing for home Nick Clegg’s Europhile leanings are not just a political and professional matter, as a prominent remainer and former MEP, but a personal one too. Meta’s president of global affairs has a Dutch mother, a half-Russian father and is …

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TechScape: I’m no longer making predictions about cryptocurrency. Here’s why

If you’d bought or sold bitcoin every time I wrote about it over the last decade, how much would you have made? Let’s do the maths Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here I’ve been writing about cryptocurrency for my entire career. In that time, one point I’ve always stuck to is …

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