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Accidental deaths soar among young people amid a proliferation of fentanyl-filled pharmaceuticals Fourteen-year-old Alondra Salinas had set out her new white sneakers and packed her backpack the night before the first day of in-person high school when police say she responded to an offer on Snapchat for blue pills, which turned out to be deadly …

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‘Passenger play’ feature has been available since December 2020 – before that, games could only be played in ‘park’ mode The US has opened a formal investigation into a report that Tesla vehicles allow people to play video games on a center touch screen while they are driving. The investigation by the National Highway Traffic …

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Up for discussion in this week’s newsletter: Years after shuttering a similarly controversial scheme, the LAPD wants to use tech to profile potential felons Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here In 2011, the Los Angeles police department rolled out a novel approach to policing called Operation Laser. Laser – which stood …

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In the second edition of our gaming newsletter: the vastly popular kids’ game has a more troubling way than usual of making money from its 200m players Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian’s brand new gaming newsletter. If you’d like to receive it in …

The sketchy economy that helps Roblox make its millions Read More »

Xbox One, Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows, PC; Strange ScaffoldOur compulsion for profit is smartly skewered by this simple game set in a trading-market where the currency is body parts It’s been a bumper year for the slavering ghouls that run some of the games industry’s biggest publishers, who have found fresh ways …

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator review – ghoulish satire of human greed Read More »

Plane manufacturers say they are evaluating whether 5G signals could affect flight safety equipment The aerospace giants Airbus and Boeing on Tuesday warned that the US aviation industry had “concerns” about the potential interference of 5G networks with vital flight safety equipment. The intervention increases pressure on US regulators in a dispute between airlines and …

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Jeff T Green rebuked church over LGBTQ rights, saying the church is ‘actively doing harm in the world’ An advertising-technology billionaire has resigned his membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and rebuked the faith over social issues and LGBTQ rights in an unusual public move. Jeff T Green has pledged to …

Tech billionaire quits Mormon church and gives $600k to LGBTQ group Read More »

I turned to documentary film-making to stay sane when Austin was ravaged by skyrocketing rents and breakneck change Austin, Texas, is in the grip of the kind of gentrification that destroyed San Francisco, and it feels like my duty as a film-maker to document it. I think you have to be a thick-skulled, opinionated, cranky …

Gentrification destroyed the San Francisco I knew. Austin is next | Patrick Bresnan Read More »

Lual Mayen turned his family’s escape from civil war in South Sudan into a powerful gaming experience – that will have real-life benefits for refugees It was while fleeing the civil war in South Sudan that Lual Mayen’s mother gave birth to him 28 years ago. She had four children in tow and was near …

From Grand Theft Auto to world peace: can a video game help to change the world? Read More »

By connecting China’s garment factories with western gen-Z customers, Shein ushered in a new era of ‘ultra-fast’ shopping Last year, Julia King, a 20-year-old art student and influencer from Texas, noticed that a particular kind of sweater vest was taking over the internet. Celebrities including Bella Hadid had been photographed wearing shrunken, argyle-patterned styles, channelling …

How Shein beat Amazon at its own game – and reinvented fast fashion Read More »