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Digital Markets Act seeks to prevent the likes of Google and Facebook parent company Meta from dominating digital markets The European Union reached an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online “gatekeepers” such as Google and Facebook’s parent company, Meta. EU officials agreed late on Thursday on wording for the bloc’s Digital Markets …

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New target comes after criticism of infrastructure rollout for failing to match surging vehicle sales The UK government has set a new target to increase the number of electric car chargers more than ten times to 300,000 by 2030 after heavy criticism that the rollout of public infrastructure is too slow to match rapid growth …

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He created the image file format that defined an internet culture for decades in 1987 while working at CompuServe If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a gif is worth millions. The image file format has been a defining element of internet culture for decades, with glass-raising DiCaprios and mic-dropping Obamas facilitating self-expression …

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The defense ministry began using technology from Clearview AI which scrapes images on the web to match uploaded photos Ukraine is using facial recognition software to help identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and track down their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine’s vice-prime minister told the Reuters news service. …

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Quartet accused in two major hacking campaigns between 2012 and 2018, indictment unsealed by justice department reads The US has unveiled criminal charges against four Russian government officials, saying they engaged in two major hacking campaigns between 2012 and 2018 that targeted the global energy sector and impacted thousands of computers across 135 countries. In …

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Passengers will pay roughly same fare for taxi and Uber X rides in move that could help overcome shortage of drivers Uber Technologies Inc has agreed a deal to list all New York City taxis on its app, a move that could help the ride-hailing firm overcome a shortage of drivers in one of its …

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The much-hyped adaptation of the phenomenally successful video game crash lands on TV with impressive visuals but not much else Quite how Halo hasn’t made it to the screen, small or big, before this is an enigma almost as nebulous as the long-running first person shooter video game’s crowded mythos. Luminaries such as Steven Spielberg, …

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PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC; Gearbox SoftwareThis fun D&D-infused cooperative shooter treads a line between fourth-wall prodding and juvenile, with unicorn queens and hi-tech weaponry Every step of the way through Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, a D&D-infused spinoff of Gearbox’s cooperative shooter-RPG Borderlands, you think to yourself: this would be so easy to …

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Xbox One/Series S/X, PlayStation 4/5, PC, Nintendo Switch; Okomotive AG/Frontier Foundry Singlehandedly manage a steampunk sailboat in this ramshackle but glorious anti-open world game Far: Changing Tides melds Mario with Cormac McCarthy and a touch of nautical engineering. Human civilisation lies in ruins, and you are a child journeying to the other end of it. …

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Rise of 35% on previous year may represent improvement on the part of platforms, says nonprofit centre A record 29.3m items of child abuse imagery were found and removed across the internet in 2021, according to data from the US nonprofit organisation in charge of coordinating reports on the matter. The figure released by the …

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