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Small-frame Windows 11 machine has good keyboard, trackpad, slick design and better performance Microsoft’s second attempt at a lower-cost Surface Laptop is faster, quieter and cheaper than its predecessor, while keeping all its good features. The Surface Laptop Go 2 starts at £529 ($599/A$1,099) and costs £20-£170 less than the first iteration depending on version. …

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FCA could bar Kristo Käärmann from senior role after claim he failed to pay £720,000 in tax FCA investigates Wise co-founder after tax default When the payments company Wise floated on the London Stock Exchange last summer it propelled its founders into the ranks of Britain’s richest people. But Kristo Käärmann, one of the Estonian …

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They are essential tools but can be expensive. From trade-ins to refurb there are ways to get a better deal Prices for the same model regularly fluctuate between retailers. While manufacturers typically only sell their phones at the recommended retail price, third-party retailers can discount them depending on stock levels and age, so shop around …

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The founder of Binance, the world’s largest digital currency exchange, is on a mission to talk to governments and regulators even as investors retreat Changpeng Zhao does not like ambiguous words. Which is just as well: the crypto industry, in which he is a leading figure, is in turmoil and crying out for clarity. The …

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The Chinese tech giant is taking surveillance capitalism to a new level. It’s almost enough to make you feel sorry for Zuckerberg Question: what do men and Excel have in common? Answer: they’re always automatically turning things into dates when they’re not. To younger people – that is, anyone under the age of 20 – …

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Private information collected and retained by companies could be weaponized to prosecute abortion seekers and providers After the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade on Friday, calls increased for tech companies to take a stand about the use of online data to incriminate individuals seeking or providing abortion services. Abortion and civil rights advocates …

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Liberty hails decision that prior independent authorisation is needed for people’s communications data The security and intelligence services must acquire “prior independent authorisation” to obtain people’s communications data from telecom providers, a civil rights campaign group has said, after it won a high court challenge. Liberty hailed a “landmark victory” and said two judges ruled …

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The New York photographer on the mystery deli worker daydreaming while she worked Melissa Breyer has never met the woman she shot in the window of a Brooklyn deli on her morning run, but she considers the image something of a self-portrait. “When I first moved to New York,” she says, “I was an artist …

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Consumption down by third since 11 June, with even sharper falls among other cryptocurrency networks The amount of electricity consumed by the largest cryptocurrency networks has decreased by up to 50% as the “crypto winter” continues to eat at the incomes of “miners” and financial contagion spreads further throughout the sector. The electricity consumption of …

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Global analysis finds increase most sharp among age group, prompting concerns about impact on health Screen time during the Covid pandemic increased the most among primary schoolchildren, by an extra hour and 20 minutes a day on average, according to the first global review of research. The sharp rise in screen time was associated with …

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