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Thirteen years in the making, James Cameron’s insipid, overlong followup to his sci-fi record-breaker is a very expensive beached whale Drenching us with a disappointment that can hardly be admitted out loud, James Cameron’s soggy new digitised film has beached like a massive, pointless whale. The story, which might fill a 30-minute cartoon, is stretched …

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After 70 years of research, experts in California have for the first time proven ignition is possible Fusion energy announcement – latest updates Physicists are a-buzz over new results from nuclear fusion experiments. But what have they found, and how big a breakthrough is it? Continue reading… After 70 years of research, experts in California …

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After shedding thousands of jobs with Elon Musk’s takeover, the company is apparently shedding office furniture – and high-end cooking equipment Great news, holiday shoppers: you can finally get your hands on a 100% authentic, 3ft-tall statue of the Twitter bird. An online auction next month will feature hundreds of the company’s “surplus corporate office …

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I’ve been playing Dungeons and Dragons since I was a kid, but my first time directing the action was daunting. I certainly wasn’t expecting what came next Four bedraggled adventurers stand together on the shore of a desolate island, shivering in the evening mist. They don’t know each other, and their motives for being here …

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In this week’s newsletter: The leaks don’t reveal a hotbed of leftwing bias at the social media company – just a thin-skinned billionaire rehashing culture wars of years past Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here The threat model of a social network is complex. Your security team …

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SEC says investigation into other alleged misconduct by former CEO of crypto exchange is ongoing Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former chief executive of the crypto exchange FTX, has been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission with defrauding investors in the company. The SEC said on Tuesday: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today …

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Arrest just 24 hours before founder of cryptocurrency exchange was to testify before US Congress The Bahamas police have arrested former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the country’s attorney general said in a statement on Monday, adding that the Bahamas has received formal notification from the US of criminal charges against him. Bankman-Fried is expected to …

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We test what devices consume, with households increasingly worried about rising energy prices How much does it cost to charge your phone or your toothbrush? Is it really cheaper to use the microwave to cook your food, as has been suggested? With the cost of electricity putting the squeeze on all our finances, and a …

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For one weird year, I was the human who stepped in to make sure a property chatbot didn’t blow its cover – I was a person pretending to be a computer pretending to be a person The recruiter was a chipper woman with a master’s degree in English. Previously she had worked as an independent …

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The firm’s turmoil appears to deepen since Elon Musk’s takeover with Yoel Roth forced to flee home amid personal attacks Elon Musk’s Twitter abruptly dissolved its Trust and Safety Council on Monday night, just moments before it was scheduled to meet with company representatives. The council was an advisory group of nearly 100 independent civil, …

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