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Ontario was once at the center of the dairy industry. Now it’s home to Amazon’s largest warehouse and hundreds of others – with dangerous consequences Edgar Jaime didn’t realize that the largest Amazon warehouse in the world was being constructed across the street from his vegetable farm in Ontario, California, until the walls went up. …

‘Monstrosities in the farmland’: how giant warehouses transformed a California town Read More »

Group chats were a lifeline during lockdown – but for many, the constant messages have become an oppressive distraction. Leaving, however, is not so simple As I write, I have 101 unread WhatsApp messages, 254 unread iPhone messages and 46,252 unread emails across three separate accounts. For me, Inbox Zero is a faraway goal, as …

‘So many people tell me they wish they could get out!’ Can we escape the tyranny of WhatsApp groups? Read More »

When children first started flocking to YouTube, some seriously strange stuff started to appear – and after much outcry, the company found itself scrambling to fix the problem Harry Jho worked out of a 10th-storey Wall Street office, in which one corner was stacked with treadmill desks and another was filled with racks of colourful …

Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids Read More »

Whistleblower expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, will appear in front of lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday. He is expected to give damning evidence of data and information security failings at the social media platform, having outlined a litany of concerns in …

Twitter whistleblower: what questions will Peiter Zatko face from lawmakers? Read More »

The Venice film festival’s sidebar Venice Immersive is dedicated to ‘extended reality’, where visitors can explore new narrative worlds. Our intrepid correspondent gets lost I’m at the Venice film festival, in a hyper-real city square, surrounded by lapping blue water and tourists who move in mysterious ways. There is a ginger cat here called Dorian …

Talking cats, magic brooms and robot bar staff – welcome to the future of storytelling Read More »

Spanish developer Elwin Gorman’s upcoming video game Naiad brings us all the serenity and joy of wild swimming without a Dryrobe in sight As a child, Elwin Gorman would go on long, winding river walks in the picturesque region of Murcia in southern Spain. Gorman senior, an agent for the Spanish environmental ministry, was attuned …

Naiad: a game about wild swimming that’s to dive for Read More »

PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch; Two Point Studios/SegaBuild knight schools and wizard academies in this imaginative college life sim, an endearing follow-up to Two Point Hospital In my long and unproductive career as an administrator of pretend video game businesses, I’ve overseen a prison, several hospitals, countless theme parks, and even a couple of …

Two Point Campus review – relive your student days in this university challenge Read More »

Free software upgrades for iPhone and Watch that revamp the lockscreen, add new watchfaces, can unsend messages and more due for release Apple plans to release software updates for its iPhone and smartwatch on Monday, adding new features and designs for compatible devices. Announced at the firm’s developer conference in June, iOS 16 and watchOS …

iOS 16 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big update Read More »

MyCoinBanking was known to Barclays but the bank has only offered to repay him half of what he lost During the pandemic my 75-year-old father was targeted by scammers via email and WhatsApp who convinced him they were investment managers who could develop his life savings of £55,000 into a fantastic sum by investing in …

Crypto scammers stole £55,000 from my father Read More »

At high-end labs in the US and UK, anybody, anywhere, can conduct experiments by remote control cheaply and efficiently. Is the rise of the robot researcher now inevitable? It’s 1am on the west coast of America, but the Emerald Cloud Lab, just south of San Francisco, is still busy. Here, more than 100 items of …

Cloud labs and remote research aren’t the future of science – they’re here Read More »