To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist who writes books and runs a YouTube channel (with 618,000 subscribers at time of writing) called Science Without the Gobbledygook. Born in Frankfurt, she studied mathematics …
Simplified home screens and customisable interfaces aid those who struggle with touchscreens These days many daily tasks require a smartphone because of new online payment security checks and the widespread use of parking apps. This is a potential nightmare for those who struggle with touchscreens, apps and texting but there are some easier-to-use models to …
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The Italian photographer was in San Francisco’s Chinatown when she came across this grand ivory building Arianna Genghini’s first stop on her family road trip through four US states was San Francisco. While they went on to travel through Utah, Nevada and Arizona in a rented minivan, it was the California city’s expansive Chinatown that …
From banking to shopping and parking, consumers without access to tech are left frustrated Many people in Britain can’t live without their smartphone and use it to manage all aspects of their lives, from banking to shopping and socialising. But what if the opposite is true, and this clever technology is erecting invisible barriers that …
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Billionaire says he prefers ‘someone sensible and centrist’ but that he had been disappointed by the Democrats so far Elon Musk has said he would support Donald Trump’s arch rival, Ron DeSantis, in 2024 if the Florida governor were to run for president. “Yes”, Musk said in a tweet when asked if he would support …
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New colour-coded categories next week for individuals, government and firms with accounts ‘manually authenticated’ Elon Musk has said Twitter verification will return next week with colour-coded categories for individuals, government accounts and companies. Twitter’s new owner said the platform would launch a new verification service next Friday, having pulled an earlier attempt at a revamp …
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On one of firm’s biggest shopping days of year, employees demand better wages and conditions Amazon warehouse workers in the UK and 40 other countries are to strike and stage protests timed to coincide with the Black Friday sales, one of the company’s biggest shopping days of the year. Employees in dozens of countries, from …
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It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators – and those they influenced – hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic Pong: a game so simple a bundle of lab-grown brain cells could play it. This might sound like a …
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Facebook owner seeks assurance that vital directive will not be purged by former business secretary’s bill Facebook and Instagram have asked for government protection from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s bonfire of up to 4,000 EU laws on post-Brexit statute books. In a letter to a parliamentary committee to be published on Friday, the parent group, Meta, asks …
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Tech titans like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried have been feted for their wealth, but see the world in ways that also merit scrutiny The new gods are running into a bit of trouble. From the soap opera playing out at Twitter HQ, the too-big-to-fail bankruptcies in the cryptocurrency space, to mass tech layoffs, the …
