In HBO series Gaming Wall Street, director Tobias Demi tries to get to the bottom of how Redditors turned a video game retailer into a financial frenzy “Money in, money out,” is how Tobias Deml, creator of the new HBO documentary miniseries Gaming Wall Street, explains the common perception of the stock market while on …
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Dominik Diamond was drawn to It Takes Two’s depiction of a struggling couple who must work together – but discovered co-op games don’t bring out the best in him I don’t like co-operative gaming. I am too much of a control freak to let another player screw up my good work. But I really wanted …
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I despise chores – so I jumped at the chance to test the latest hi-tech solutions (and simple hacks) that promise to keep domestic drudgery to a minimum A prime candidate for secular canonisation – and a personal hero of mine – is Frances Gabe. She was a visionary, a terrible neighbour (she antagonised hers …
Regulators will consider the techniques the company implements to attract young users and keep them watching A bipartisan group of attorneys general are launching an investigation into whether TikTok is designed and promoted in a “manner that causes or exacerbates physical and mental health harms” for children and young people. Led by the Massachusetts attorney …
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The comedian has missed other being around other people – specifically people doing absurd things. Luckily, the internet has that in spades I’ve missed people. Thanks to something called Covid-19 (look it up), I’ve been around other human beings less and less over the past couple of years. And I’ve missed you! I’ve missed overhearing …
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US safety commission said recall was due to the fitness watch’s lithium-ion battery overheating The fitness-tracking device maker Fitbit is recalling 1.7m of its Ionic smartwatches after reports of the battery overheating and burning some users. The company, which was acquired by Google in 2021, had sold about 1m of the model in the US …
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It is being hailed as one of the greatest games of all time, but if you don’t yet know your Margit from your Elden, here is a guide to get you roaming the Lands Between like a pro Elden Ring has a Metacritic rating of 97%. If you type its name into Twitter you will …
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In this week’s newsletter: Google, Meta, Twitter, TikTok (and Elon Musk, obviously) have been dragged into the conflict Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Russia-Ukraine war was always going to have a very major cyber component. And, in the past week, we have seen just how much the war is …
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Advertisements named after Elon Musk’s dog allegedly took advantage of consumers’ naivety The UK advertising watchdog has banned a London underground campaign for Floki Inu, a cryptocurrency named after a dog owned by Tesla chief Elon Musk, for allegedly taking advantage of naive consumers unaware of the potential dangers of investing in digital crypto assets. …
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Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, says exchanges will comply with curbs on individuals, but rejects blanket ban Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news It is not the place for cryptocurrency exchanges to block transactions by Russian users, the founder of one of the largest trading platforms has said, amid concern that digital currencies will be used to …
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