Old drives often contain precious memories, but to keep them you have to maintain them. Here’s what the experts say about how to do it Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast If you’re anything like me, you probably have a bunch of hard drives sitting at the back of …
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S-Town’s Brian Reed unpicks The Trojan Horse Affair, which saw Midlands schools accused of Islamic extremism. Plus: Shaun Keaveny speaks with pals such as Vic Reeves and Nina Conti in his warming, nostalgic series The Trojan Horse AffairThis Serial-backed podcast tackles the scandal that saw Birmingham schools accused of an Islamist plot. Given the affair …
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The new safety feature comes after reports of women discovering the devices in their personal belongings Apple will warn AirTag users when they are setting up the device that it is illegal to use it to track people, as the tech firm responds to concerns that the product is used by stalkers. AirTags can be …
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App says generation Z users want to sample what dating was like in pre-smartphone era From low-rise jeans to reruns of the sitcom Friends, generation Z has a seemingly endless appetite for 90s and early 00s nostalgia. Now that extends to their romantic lives, as Tinder has introduced a blind date feature to boost its …
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Deal comes less than two years after Binance sued the business publisher for defamation Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200m (£147m) investment in Forbes less than two years after it sued the business publisher for defamation. A Binance spokesperson said Forbes’s editorial independence would remain “sacrosanct” following the deal. Binance sued Forbes and …
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Richard Dexter sentenced to four-and-a-half years for duping victim into sending payments after meeting via dating app A “charming” fraudster who conned a millionaire he met on Tinder into handing him almost £150,000 has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Richard Dexter, 38, boasted to his victim, Amrita Sebastian, that he was worth almost £7m, owned …
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Regulators sound alarm over function that can play sounds over external speaker and obscure warnings for pedestrians Tesla is recalling nearly 579,000 vehicles in the US because a “Boombox” function can play sounds over an external speaker and obscure audible warnings for pedestrians. The recall is the fourth made public in the last two weeks …
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Programme about ‘self-made crypto-millionaire’ dropped amid questions over central claims The BBC has pulled a documentary about a cryptocurrency entrepreneur from television schedules at the last minute after the Guardian raised questions about some of its central claims. The programme, called The Crypto-Millionaire and due to be broadcast at 7.30pm on Wednesday night, was to …
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Nintendo Switch; Game Freak/NintendoMore than a quarter of a century since the cuddly critters were first sent in to battle, the magic of those early adventures has finally been recaptured Ever since the monochromatic thrills of 1996’s Pokémon Red and Blue, I’ve dreamed of embarking on a sprawling 3D Pokémon adventure. While 2019’s Sword and …
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Heather Morgan, arrested on suspicion of laundering cryptocurrency worth billions, has a second life as performer with ‘more pizzazz than Genghis Khan’ A woman accused of laundering billions of dollars in stolen cryptocurrency alongside her husband may end up becoming better known for her excruciating music career as a self-styled “raunchy rapper” called Razzlekhan. Heather …
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