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Radar-based gesture and sleep tracking turns top smart assistant into a great alarm clock too Google’s second-generation Nest Hub smart display now comes with radar-based sleep tracking as it attempts to keep Amazon’s Alexa at bay. The new Nest Hub costs £89.99 on launch, which makes it cheaper than its predecessor and slightly undercuts competitors …

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PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC; People Can FlyCapturing exactly what makes the genre tick, this is perhaps the best looter-shooter game since Borderlands The first proper gun you pick up in Outriders, the latest looter-shooter where you run around sci-fi warzones blasting everything that moves, detonates enemies’ bones. While perhaps …

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The FBI has relied on a variety of technologies to track down rioters – and watchdogs are concerned those technologies could impede protesters exercising their first amendment rights Over the past months, federal law enforcement has used a wide variety of surveillance technologies to track down rioters who participated in the 6 January attack on …

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We are raiding the Audio Long Reads archives and bringing you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2018: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property …

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Hundreds of rare PlayStation 2 demos have been uncovered and archived, revealing how favourite games were developed If you worked on video game magazines in the 90s, there was one sight you got used to pretty quickly. On every desk, in every drawer, there were dozens of DVD-R discs with the titles of games scrawled …

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China powers nearly 80% of the global cryptocurrencies trade, but the energy required could jeopardise its pledge to peak carbon emissions by 2030 China’s electricity-hungry bitcoin mines that power nearly 80% of the global trade in cryptocurrencies risk undercutting the country’s climate goals, a study in the journal Nature has said. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies …

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Regardless of when it was leaked, user data ‘is never really old’ – it’s still valuable to cybercriminals, analysts say After information from 533 million Facebook users was exposed to hackers, the company has tried to reassure users, saying that the data was leaked years ago and has since been secured. But experts say the …

Facebook says a breach that hit 533m is old news. Experts disagree Read More »

Why the Guardian US is launching a major project on the dramatic drop in gun homicides in the Bay Area Guns and Lies started in 2019 as a year-long project investigating what worked to reduce the daily toll of gun violence in California’s Bay Area, a region that had defied expectations and seen a dramatic …

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‘I got this call: do you want to audition for a show about video games? It sounded exactly the thing a dweeb with round glasses could do’ I was a single mother and had just launched my own production company in the midst of a recession. My son Harry was 10 and for Christmas in …

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Why are young people imagining themselves as the protagonist in fictionalised versions of their lives? Staring longingly out of a window watching the sunset across the New York skyline, or sitting on a balcony while Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey plays softly in the background. These are just a couple examples of a TikTok …

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