Company accused of refusing to provide sufficient information about number of false users Elon Musk has accused Twitter of committing a “material breach” of his $44bn agreement to buy the company and threatened to terminate the deal, in the clearest indication yet that the world’s richest man is preparing to walk away from the takeover. …
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Curious Bird; PC, MacYour job is to manage a digital influencing agency with commercial and political clients – and ethical challenges Remember when Boris Johnson revealed he likes to paint wine crates to resemble buses? Or, more recently, when he warned citizens off working from home lest they become distracted by cheese? Quirky, on-brand soundbites …
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New computers, iPad overhaul and expanded Messages app on the cards, with AR glasses a possibility Apple is to reveal details of the software updates coming to its phones, tablets and computers, in the company’s annual worldwide developers’ conference (WWDC). But while new computers, an expanded Messages app, and an overhaul of the iPad’s software …
From epic data mining to shocking failures of content moderation, Meta’s COO passes on a vast clean-up job If you are reading this, odds are that you are one of the 2.87 billion daily users of the products offered by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. If you are not …
German carmaker says move due to a potential problem with the braking system Mercedes-Benz has announced it is immediately recalling nearly one million older vehicles worldwide due to a potential problem with the braking system. Germany’s federal transport authority (KBA) said that the recall affected cars built between 2004 and 2015 of the SUV series …
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A lot of investors don’t understand their liability, warn tax agents, while others call for the complicated Australian system to be overhauled As tax time approaches in Australia, cryptocurrency investors have been warned to begin working out what they owe. Some lessons can be drawn from the recent US tax season, where some enthusiasts found …
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A new wave of enthusiasts are eschewing the multi-megapixel convenience of digital photography in favour of an older, slower, ‘magical’ tech Indi Shields first discovered film in the drawer of her childhood home. “The first film camera I picked up was my great grandfather’s,” she says. “It felt so special to hold it and use …
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Chau Chak Wing Museum is Australia’s first to offer visitors colour-vision-enhancing glasses. So what happens when one man tries them on? Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast There are a few everyday situations that 24-year-old Mason Suljic struggles in. He can’t always read graphs, charts or maps very well. …
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US farmers’ struggles for the right to fix their own, now highly computer-controlled equipment, have implications for us all It was one of the few pieces of cheery news to emerge from the war in Ukraine. Russian looters, no doubt with the assistance of Russian troops, stole 27 pieces of John Deere farm equipment, worth …
Plummeting prices and lost life savings confirmed for many that the blockchain dream was too good to be true – and it may now struggle to hit past highs Even if you don’t live and breathe cryptocurrency, you’ve probably noticed some turmoil in the sector. Eye-catching headlines about missing apes and collapsing stablecoins are indicative …
