Social media platform faces $300m interest payment this week, and default could trigger debt restructuring – or bankruptcy Elon Musk sold a statue of Twitter’s bird logo last week for $100,000 – and he needs the money. The social media platform that he owns reportedly faces an interest payment of about $300m (£242m) on its …
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Faster and easier to repair, the Intel version is best yet. But the Arm model isn’t ready for prime time Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 tablet gets faster and easier to fix in the Surface Pro 9, while offering more options than ever before. But is it still the best PC tablet going? Only if you …
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AI art generators may provide five minutes of fun for most users, but the blurring of creative and ethical boundaries is leaving many artists raging against the machine ‘Woman reading book, under a night sky, dreamy atmosphere,” I type into Deep Dream Generator’s Text 2 Dream feature. In less than a minute, an image is …
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Cutting-edge technology is helping food chains reach the holy grail of flawless, contactless, low-budget dining The secret behind the hi-tech future of sushi lies in an unremarkable building in the backstreets of Osaka. Inside, empty plastic cups and plates adorned with scrunched-up wet paper – to replicate the weight and texture of scallops – make …
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The new social network and its interconnected ‘fediverse’ is a welcome alternative to blustering rival Twitter and Elon Musk When Twitter first appeared in July 2006, I was enchanted by it. At one point, some geek created an app that logged tweets and geolocated them in real time on a map of the world, so …
New court filing says ex-Theranos founder booked flight departing 26 January last year, shortly after fraud conviction The disgraced founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, made an “attempt to flee the country” by purchasing a one-way ticket to Mexico after she was found guilty on four counts of fraud last January, according to prosecutors. In the …
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World’s largest pest control group has developed technology to track individual rodents and assess how best to deal with them The world’s largest pest control group is piloting the use of facial recognition software as a way to exterminate rats in people’s homes. Rentokil said it had been developing the technology alongside Vodafone for 18 …
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Sensationalist headlines and reactionary calls for stricter moderation risk missing the forest for the trees Is there any platform that creates as much collective angst as TikTok? For some, TikTok is just a silly video app. For others, it’s a symbol of our most potent social and political fears. What are young people engaging with? …
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In Coventry, 300 GMB members plan to down tools over long hours, bad management and a 50p-an-hour pay rise Amazon workers at a vast depot in Coventry will stage a historic strike on Wednesday – the first time the delivery giant’s UK operations have ever been hit by industrial action. The immediate cause of the …
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The case is a rare securities class-action trial in which the judge has already ruled the carmaker founder’s tweet was reckless Elon Musk is expected to testify as early as Friday in a jury trial over his 2018 Twitter post that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private, which shareholders allege cost them millions …
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