Andrew Rea’s ‘try, fail and try again’ YouTube cookery show – in which he often cooks food from films and cartoons – gets more viewers than Nigella, Jamie Oliver and Tom Kerridge combined. But its massive, viral success nearly cost the self-taught chef his mental health Andrew Rea is one of the biggest chefs in …
The Washington DC shooting was the most recent to spawn out of the extremist culture of unregulated ‘chan’ message boards When police in Washington DC burst into a fifth-floor apartment building on 22 April in search of a man who allegedly had shot four people at random, they found Raymond Spencer dead by his own …
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Musk’s acquisition of the media platform will be a boon for free speech, he says. Governments are the ones to judge that On Friday 8 January 2021, Twitter kicked Donald Trump off its platform and an eerie calm enveloped parts of our global public sphere. Depriving him of his online megaphone was a compelling demonstration …
The chief executive of the booming fitness tracker wants to help reinvent urban travel, but he isn’t racing to float the company Michael Horvath took up hiking and yoga during the pandemic when his usual cycle to work was off limits. Like almost 100 million others in nearly 300 countries he was able to track …
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Scams relating to digital ‘coins’ are growing – but data reveals authorities are making record seizures of assets too In July 2021, specialist police officers in Manchester swooped on an international cryptocurrency scam, seizing USB sticks and an online safe containing £16m worth of digital coins, mostly ethereum. A month earlier, Leicestershire police had confiscated …
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The controversial billionaire may find that buying the platform exposes him to a whole new world of legal problems Contained within 95 pages of dense legal jargon, the warning from Twitter to Elon Musk was clear: don’t use your considerable power on the social media platform to attack the company. The world’s richest man and …
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Firm to pay staff in US, UK and other countries flat rates regardless of their region’s living costs Airbnb staff will be able to work from almost anywhere they want, the company has announced, and they won’t see their pay docked if they move outside metropolitan areas. The new model will apply to staff in …
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More sophisticated AI means space agencies should not use public funds for risky human missions, says Lord Martin Rees The world’s space agencies should scrap plans to send astronauts to the moon and Mars and leave them to explorers and billionaires who can privately fund and risk such adventures, the astronomer royal says. Lord Martin …
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Unplugging equipment normally left on standby may not save consumers as much cash as hoped As the cost-of-living crisis bites, and households look for any opportunity to cut the bills, headlines suggesting consumers can save hundreds of pounds just by turning off unused chargers have been an appealing prospect. But, experts say, such claims about …
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James Ball spends countless hours a week staring at his iPhone. Would a fortnight with just old-school text messages and games of Snake shake him out of it? Plus! Five tips for resetting your tech life One Monday morning early this year, bleary-eyed and getting ready for work, I am interrupted by a notification on …
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