The extent to which private companies should be held responsible for online content is a global issue yet to be resolved Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast As the internet continues to evolve from its earlier days as an unregulated wild west, the big debates about what people should …
Owners report opening camera in apps such as TikTok and Instagram leads to grinding sounds and vibrations in entire phone A major bug in Apple’s latest iPhone is causing the camera to physically fail when using apps such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram, some owners have reported. The bug in the company’s iPhone 14 Pro …
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Video and images posted online as hacker also threatens to leak source code for Grand Theft Auto V and VI More than 90 videos and images of Grand Theft Auto VI, the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V, one of the best-selling video games of all time – leaked online over the weekend, …
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With students’ finances overstretched, it’s important to get the right tech at the right price. Here are some of the best deals The end of the summer is here, and with it the start of a new semester at university. The landscape of learning certainly looks brighter than it has for the last couple of …
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Expo in east London shows how important augmented and virtual reality will be, as attractions move with the times In the fight for theme park visitors the battle lines have been drawn – monster trucks, virtual reality zombie warfare and “smellscaping”, just thankfully not all at the same time. And while there was a sombre …
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A court in Delaware will decide whether the Tesla chief can back out of his $44bn offer to buy the platform As the Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko was telling US lawmakers of “egregious” security failings at the company last Tuesday, shareholders in the social media platform overwhelmingly voted to hand those problems over to someone …
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Studies show that women with heart disease are more likely to be misdiagnosed than men, and will have worse outcomes for surgery. What is behind this bias and how can how it be fixed? Heart diseases are still chronically misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed in women. With depressing regularity, we see stories of women failed by the …
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Seeing how much fun your peers are having is bad for your mental health, a study of students suggests Scrolling Twitter or refreshing Facebook definitely feels like it’s bad for you, as our attention spans rot and meaning is drained from our lives. Despite those strong feelings, we’re usually told the evidence isn’t yet there …
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Speaking to animals has long been a fantasy. But now a dizzyingly ambitious project is harnessing all the power of modern science in an attempt to understand what whales say – and then hold conversations with them Tom Mustill was kayaking with his friend Charlotte in Monterey Bay, California, when an animal three times the …
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Do Kwon’s whereabouts are still unknown since a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant earlier this week Do Kwon, the South Korean founder of the failed cryptocurrency Terra wanted by police, has denied he was on the run after Singapore investigators said he was not in the city-state as had been believed. Kwon’s whereabouts …
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