Quartet targeted by clients – thought to be Jordanian government agencies – of Israeli company even after Apple sued in November New evidence has revealed that an Apple iPhone was successfully hacked by a government user of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in December, weeks after the technology giant sued the Israeli company in a US …
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Tech giant will launch 3,236 satellites over five years to compete with SpaceX and UK’s OneWeb Amazon will compete directly with SpaceX and the UK government-owned OneWeb to set up a constellation of broadband-providing satellites, the company has announced. The plan, Project Kuiper, will involve Amazon buying the largest batch of commercial launches in history, …
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The departures come after the troubled launch of the company’s iPhone app on 20 February, with many still stuck on a waiting list Two senior executives at Donald Trump’s tech start-up Truth Social have resigned, adding to considerable problems faced by the former president’s attempted takeover of conservative social media. Josh Adams and Billy Boozer …
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AI algorithms prompt robot to interrogate, select, and decision-make to create a painting Brush clamped firmly in bionic hand, Ai-Da’s robotic arm moves slowly, dipping in to a paint palette then making slow, deliberate strokes across the paper in front of her. This, according to Aidan Meller, the creator of the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid …
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Treasury wants to show Britain is at cutting edge for new technologies with cryptoasset launch by summer The Treasury has asked the Royal Mint to create a non-fungible token, or NFT, as it attempts to show Britain is at the cutting edge for new technologies by launching its own cryptoasset. It said the chancellor, Rishi …
A hack using a forged legal request that exposed consumer data collected by Apple and Meta shed light on the reach of the law A brazen hack that exposed consumer data collected by Apple and the Facebook-parent company Meta has raised fresh questions about how secure our data is in the hands of tech companies …
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Platform’s shares jump after news that Tesla and SpaceX boss holds 9.2% stake The billionaire Elon Musk has taken an almost $3bn (£2.3bn) stake in Twitter to become the social media platform’s largest shareholder. The world’s richest man, who has a penchant for eccentric behaviour frequently involving posts on Twitter, has built up a 9.2% …
New top sports watch line gets slick OLED screen upgrade, but shorter battery life as a result Garmin’s latest luxury sports watch is a departure for the firm, which has swapped its usual low-power LCD for a fancy OLED screen, sacrificing battery life in the process. It better competes with the Apple Watch and its …
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Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong casts the figurative bloodsuckers of our world as literal night-stalking vampires, invisibly controlling the world How do you make vampires feel menacing again? For game developer Big Bad Wolf, the answer was to make the living dead responsible for everything wrong with our world. In an age where the lines …
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Whether you want your information destroyed, stored or memorialised, many tech platforms now offer options for handling users’ data after death Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast Our favourite memories and important documents used to be kept as physical objects: photo albums, scrapbooks, postcards, contracts and certificates of ownership. …
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