The move follows changes across the EU that made it simpler for users to quit the subscription service Quitting an Amazon Prime membership is a confusing business that can often feel like it takes longer than the next-day delivery the service promises. By the end of next month, however, UK subscribers will be able to …
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Google’s former chief technology officer wants to use social networks to create states. What doesn’t fit into his vision are things like poverty, illness and ageing In The Network State, a buzzy new book by Balaji Srinivasan, the former chief technology officer of Coinbase poses a devious question: how do you Larp a country into …
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From cyberspace to AI, Steven Lisberger’s 1982 sci-fi classic was way ahead of its time. The team behind it explain how they made a game-changer Back in 1982, computers meant one of two things in the popular imagination. Either they were room-sized machines used by the military-industrial complex to crunch data on stuff like nuclear …
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A reader writes that their 79-year-old relative can’t access her tablet or iCloud account My 79-year-old mother has found herself locked out of her Apple iCloud account and denied access to many years’ worth of family photos saved on her original iPad. She has had long periods in hospital and her iPad is very precious. …
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Personal information allegedly leaked from Shanghai police database would be one of biggest data breaches in history A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The …
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AI sentience probably won’t happen in our lifetime. But it’s not too early to start thinking about it … There’s a children’s toy, called the See ’n Say, which haunts the memories of many people born since 1965. It’s a bulky plastic disc with a central arrow that rotates around pictures of barnyard creatures, like …
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Online retailer opening ‘micromobility’ hub in Hackney as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions Amazon is launching a fleet of e-cargo bikes and a team of on-foot delivery staff to replace thousands of van deliveries on London’s roads. The online retailer is opening its first “micromobility” hub in Hackney, east London, which – along …
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A fifth of the electric cars on British roads were made by Tesla, the US electric car pioneer The number of electric cars sold in the UK has surpassed half a million, according to analysis that underlines the rapid growth in demand despite supply chain problems caused by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. …
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Google has acted amid fears police could use location and other data to prosecute those seeking care In the wake of the US supreme court’s decision to end women’s constitutional right to abortion, some tech companies are moving to close loopholes that allow personal data brokers to monitor and sell information amid fears that mobile …
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This remarkable young woman is the sharpest critic of crypto on the web – and predictably, the trolls are after her In 1955, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith published a slim volume entitled The Great Crash 1929, a history of the Wall Street crash. In it, he chronicled, with his customary caustic wit, the rampant …
