After two years of messaging and video chats, in-person dates are back. But how do you give yourself the best chance of meeting the right people? So much about being single is great: being able to eat, watch and do what you want; independence; no in-laws. But routine can easily turn into a rut, which …
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Could buying an NFT the way one buys a bag of Cheetos demystify the process? It’s easy to miss the storefront that is home to the “world’s first NFT vending machine” in Manhattan’s Financial District. Squished between a sandwich shop and a tailor, the windows are bathed in pink neon light, with glowing letters that …
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The group has claimed credit for hacking the Russian Ministry of Defence database, and is believed to have hacked multiple state TV channels to show pro-Ukraine content Cyber conflicts are fought in the shadows but in the case of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it is a group that calls itself Anonymous that has made the …
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The tech giant has many ways of gathering information about its users’ activity – from Prime to Alexa. But how much can it collect and what can you do to keep your life private? From selling books out of Jeff Bezos’s garage to a global conglomerate with a yearly revenue topping $400bn (£290bn), much of …
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Services like PayPal and Square now need your tax information. Scammers are going to be on the prowl to get it too Thanks to new legislation that went into place at the beginning of this year, I predict that a lot of unsuspecting small business owners are about to fall victim to a fresh scam. …
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For centuries, swindlers and thieves have been drawn to the highly lucrative world of wine crime. But a new generation of tech-savvy detectives are closing in on them. Ed Cumming meets the men and women trying to put a cork in the business of wine fraud Down in the cool, dark cellar of Berry Bros …
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Drivers with no off-street parking must use public charging points and miss £950 in savings, warns thinktank Almost 10 million households in England and Wales risk missing out on savings of £950 a year that come from owning an electric car, according to a study warning that richer households stand to benefit most. About a …
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Technical snags, criticisms of its terms of service and questions about copyright infringement plague the app’s kickoff Donald Trump last week launched his long-awaited social media app, Truth Social, luring users with the promises of a platform free from “discrimination against political ideology”. But with tech glitches plaguing the platform and early criticisms of its …
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Thanks to the rapid advance of little tech, employers can now monitor every online action of their remote employees Pandemics, as the historian Yuval Noah Harari observed at the beginning of the current one, tend to accelerate history. If you doubt that then think back to, say, January 2020. If you told people then that …
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The Foo Fighters frontman on his favourite new band, watching celebrities eat hot sauce and Zendaya in HBO’s Euphoria Dave Grohl was born in Ohio in 1969 and raised in Virginia. He got his start as a drummer with the punk band Scream before joining Nirvana in 1990. Following the death of Kurt Cobain in …
