Jack Thorne, whose Netflix series has shone a light on incel culture, calls for restrictions on teens’ social media access Smartphones should be treated like cigarettes and banned until the age of 16 in the UK, according to the writer of Adolescence, which explores the insidious influence of “incel-culture”. Jack Thorne, whose Netflix show has …
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Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds Europe live – latest updates Russia and other state actors are driving an increase in politically motivated cyber-attacks and sabotage of infrastructure and public institutions in the EU, the bloc’s police enforcement agency has found. Europol’s 80-page serious and organised crime …
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Corporations started wooing my friends as soon as college began. It’s time for the left to reimagine its relationship with tech When my friends and I graduated with our math degrees this past May, we felt like we could do anything. After long nights spent on problem sets, the most aimless and ambitious of us …
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From cordless designs to budget buys, we’ve tested the top hair straighteners for every hair type • Everything I’ve learned as a beauty columnist about the products that actually work Straighteners are here to stay – but thankfully, heat styling has come a long way since GHD’s first ceramic straighteners ushered in an era of …
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Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used ‘for everything – the writing, the headlines, the quotes … even the irony’ An Italian newspaper has said it is the first in the world to publish an edition entirely produced by artificial intelligence. The initiative by Il Foglio, a conservative liberal daily, is part of a month-long journalistic …
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Alphabet’s acquisition of Israeli startup for $32bn follows rejection of takeover bid last summer Google’s owner, Alphabet, has agreed to buy the cybersecurity group Wiz for $32bn (£24.7bn), the biggest acquisition it has ever made. The search giant’s purchase of the Israeli startup comes as Google to catch its rivals Microsoft and Amazon in the …
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The tech billionaire and his EV company suffer, Apple castigates itself over Siri failures and a Meta tell-all book evokes a strong reaction Hello, and welcome to TechScape. In this week’s edition: Elon Musk suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Apple beats itself up over Siri, and Meta goes after one of its …
As the 30-year-old studio behind many innovative and beloved video games shuts down, its founders, fans and designers discuss what made it so special Late last month, Warner Bros announced it was closing three of its game development studios in a “strategic change of direction”: WB Games San Diego, Player First Studios, and Monolith Productions. …
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In a statement, 35 signatories from dance, theatre and music industries express concern about ‘fragile ecosystem’ More than 30 performing arts leaders in the UK, including the bosses of the National Theatre, Opera North and the Royal Albert Hall, have joined the chorus of creative industry concern about the government’s plans to let artificial intelligence …
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BYD reveals new platform with charging speeds of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s superchargers Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol and announced for the …
