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PC; Lemaitre BrosOppressive lo-fi visuals and brutalist architecture somehow create a game of laidback curiosity and exploration Babbdi’s secret weapon is a trumpet. Unearthed from a tower above a stagnant dockyard, it’s an unexpected comic flourish in what looks like a lo-fi brutalist horror game. Making music is simple: hold left mouse button until your …

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Nintendo Switch; Sidebar GamesThe long-awaited follow-up to Golf Story is rough but characterful, with plenty of retro warmth Like developer Sidebar’s 2017 cult triumph Golf Story, Sport Story feels like an exceptional title from the Super Nintendo era. You’re holidaying on a bright, retro-flavoured, pixelated island with your golf coach and friends. The aesthetic isn’t …

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The Louis Thorold Foundation, which was set up by Rachael and Chris in memory of their son, campaigns for safer roads Louis Thorold was “just a perfect little baby, smiley and happy”, recalls his father, Chris. One of the five-month-old’s favourite toys was a plush elephant with crinkly ears. His mother, Rachael, remembers how relaxed …

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In this week’s newsletter: Investors threw millions at a coin themed on the Netflix hit – that never appeared. Find out how in The Squid Scam. Plus: five of the best podcasts about celebrity scandals Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here History Listen: RockAudible, episodes weeklySt …

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Workers received no warning before the termination of their jobs in December, shortly after Elon Musk’s takeover of the company Laureta, a single mother and janitor for years at Twitter’s offices in New York City, would like Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest people and the new owner of the social media giant, to …

‘It’s a nightmare’: Twitter’s New York City janitors protest over sudden layoffs Read More »

So much is happening, both wonderful and terrible – and it matters how we tell it. We can’t erase the bad news, but to ignore the good is the route to indifference or despair Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis. This is as true of climate chaos as anything else. We are hemmed …

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Fans say the use of an accurate physics engine to reimagine historic shipwrecks makes it ‘difficult to look away’ A shark swims slowly and serenely beneath the Bismarck seconds before it sinks deep into the ocean. Seemingly out of nowhere, the battleship tilts and falls; its bow crashes on to the seabed. Its hull floods …

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The tech billionaire has reportedly lost $182bn (£150bn) since November 2021, largely due to the drop in Tesla’s share price Elon Musk has broken the world record for the largest loss of personal fortune in history, according to a Guinness World Records report. The tech billionaire has lost approximately $182bn (£150bn) since November 2021, although …

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Media firm says personal data of UK staff members was accessed in ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber-attack last month The Guardian has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack in December and that the personal data of UK staff members has been accessed in the incident. The Guardian Media Group’s chief executive, Anna Bateson, and the …

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Princeton senior Edward Tian says GPTZero can root out text composed by the controversial AI bot, but users cite mixed results A 22-year-old college student has developed an app which he claims can detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the explosive chatbot raising fears of plagiarism in academia. Edward Tian, a senior at Princeton …

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