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Reflexes start to decline in your 20s, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be competitive at first-person shooters any more. Keith Stuart shares some hard-won knowledge It is an unfortunate fact of life that human reflexes slow down as we get older. Medical studies suggest that reaction times peak at 24 and go downhill from …

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‘Hard to imagine sector bouncing back quickly from this ordeal,’ committee is told Most of the customers of failed crypto exchange FTX were institutions but the effects of its collapse are still likely to reverberate across the sector and may affect small retail investors, MPs have been told. “What we’re hearing … is that the …

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Yuesheng Wang, a worker at Quebec’s power utility, is accused of sending trade secrets to China Canada’s federal police have charged an electric vehicle battery researcher at Quebec’s power utility with espionage, alleging the worker was covertly sending trade secrets to China. The arrest of Yuesheng Wang, 35, comes as Canada grapples with a barrage …

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Whistleblowers allege constant hazards, onsite accidents and wage theft while working on the manufacturing facility in Austin Construction workers who toiled on one of Tesla’s sprawling so-called Gigafactories will file a complaint and a case referral with the federal Department of Labor on Tuesday detailing exploitative work conditions they say they experienced while building the …

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Case is a historic win for consumers after an investigation found the tech company tracked users’ location even after they opted out Google has agreed to a $391.5m settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general announced on Monday. The states’ investigation was sparked by …

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Entrepreneur at center of FTX scandal put luxury residence up for sale the same day crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto trader entrepreneur at the center of the FTX scandal, reportedly put his luxury $40m Bahamas penthouse up for sale on Friday – the same day the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy. …

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Cuts would be largest in online retailer’s history and follow similar moves by tech companies including Meta and Twitter Amazon is planning to dismiss about 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs starting as soon as this week, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The cuts would …

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Tesla chief says ‘there’s no way to make everyone happy’ amid claims 4,400 contractors have been fired Elon Musk has said he has “too much work on my plate” as it was reported that Twitter has axed more than 4,000 contractors working in areas including content moderation and engineering. The Tesla chief executive and the …

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PC, Xbox; Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game StudiosAn evocative recreation of 16th-century Bavaria examines how the tide of history crashes against the lives of everyday people, all framed by an intriguing crime story Plenty of games have recreated historical places, but few even attempt to capture what it was actually like to live through these eras. Pentiment …

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Amazon founder wants to donate much of $124bn wealth to causes such as climate crisis and world unity Jeff Bezos has promised to give away the vast majority of his $124bn (£110bn) fortune during his lifetime, but admitted that ensuring that the most worthy causes benefit is proving as difficult as building his Amazon empire. …

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