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Elon Musk engages with tweets criticising Twitter staff

Acquisition agreement allows Musk to tweet about deal but not to disparage firm or its representatives Elon Musk has engaged with tweets criticising Twitter employees despite promising not to “disparage” the company or its representatives while he completes the deal to acquire the social media platform. The world’s richest man agreed to restrictions on his …

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Nintendo Switch Sports review – the return of slapstick fun

Nintendo Switch; NintendoIt’s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it’s as entertaining as ever For all their polymath complexity, all their melding of artistic and cinematic and technical achievements, timeless video games sometimes boil down to one very good idea. In 2006 Wii Sports’ idea …

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I’m trying to educate my son in sports video games, but he is not having any of it | Dominik Diamond

For his own good, my soon-to-be-18-year-old needs to understand sport. It’s the only way he’ll survive. Unfortunately, 90s video games are of limited use My son Charlie will be 18 soon. Like all Scottish males before him, he will be dropped on a Hebridean island with nothing but a rusty knife and his own anger. …

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‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you

Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent When the job of a young east coast-based analyst – we’ll call him James – went remote with the pandemic, he didn’t envisage any problems. The company, a large US retailer for which he has been …

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What better owner for Twitter than Elon Musk, master of the ill-advised tweet? | Marina Hyde

The ultimate shitposter has bought up Twitter, and its denizens are angry – how entirely appropriate Speaking a few hours ago about Twitter purchaser Elon Musk, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey declared: “I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” Bless. This feels like the first flashback scene we see in a dystopian drama …

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Concern over Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover wipes $126bn off Tesla value

Fears that carmaker’s CEO may have to sell shares to fund $44bn acquisition of social network Investors have wiped $126bn (£100bn) off Tesla’s value amid concern that Elon Musk may have to sell shares in the electric carmaker to fund his personal contribution to his $44bn acquisition of Twitter. Tesla stock has been targeted despite …

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Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover: the experts’ verdict on what lies ahead

David Kaye, Jillian York, Jeff Kosseff and Roger NcNamee discuss the choices at the billionaire’s disposal Here’s a juxtaposition that many American observers may have missed in the hubbub over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter: just last Friday the European Union provisionally agreed to the most far-reaching internet regulation in a generation. The Digital Services …

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Global mystery hepatitis outbreak spreads to Asia and Canada

Japan reports child with acute liver disease of unknown origin, and Canada investigating similar cases, with nearly 200 now recorded worldwide A mysterious liver disease that has infected children in a dozen countries around the world has reached Asia, with a case reported in Japan. The case in Japan of acute hepatitis – or inflammation …

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Alphabet revenue falls short amid supply-chain struggles and Ukraine war

Inflation and war in Ukraine fuel Google parent company’s first-quarter struggles Alphabet’s first quarter revenue fell below analysts’ expectations on Tuesday, as the company struggles with slower-than-anticipated growth influenced by supply chain struggles, inflation, and the war in Ukraine. In its quarterly earnings report, Google’s parent company said it had made quarterly profit of $16.436bn, …

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