The Facebook parent company is continuing a major rebrand of its products and focusing more heavily on the metaverse Meta shares soared in after hours trading on Wednesday, despite the company reporting slow revenue growth amid global economic uncertainties and the war in Ukraine. The company’s reported total revenue rose 7% to $27.91bn in the …
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Face-to-face gatherings produce more ideas – and more inventive ones – than videoconferencing, say researchers As if the endless muting and freezing, the need for shelves lined with high literature, and the constant fear of a colleague wandering on screen unclothed were not enough to worry about, researchers have found that Zoom stifles creativity. Meeting …
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Acquisition agreement allows Musk to tweet about deal but not to disparage firm or its representatives Elon Musk has engaged with tweets criticising Twitter employees despite promising not to “disparage” the company or its representatives while he completes the deal to acquire the social media platform. The world’s richest man agreed to restrictions on his …
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Nintendo Switch; NintendoIt’s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it’s as entertaining as ever For all their polymath complexity, all their melding of artistic and cinematic and technical achievements, timeless video games sometimes boil down to one very good idea. In 2006 Wii Sports’ idea …
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For his own good, my soon-to-be-18-year-old needs to understand sport. It’s the only way he’ll survive. Unfortunately, 90s video games are of limited use My son Charlie will be 18 soon. Like all Scottish males before him, he will be dropped on a Hebridean island with nothing but a rusty knife and his own anger. …
Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent When the job of a young east coast-based analyst – we’ll call him James – went remote with the pandemic, he didn’t envisage any problems. The company, a large US retailer for which he has been …
The ultimate shitposter has bought up Twitter, and its denizens are angry – how entirely appropriate Speaking a few hours ago about Twitter purchaser Elon Musk, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey declared: “I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” Bless. This feels like the first flashback scene we see in a dystopian drama …
Fears that carmaker’s CEO may have to sell shares to fund $44bn acquisition of social network Investors have wiped $126bn (£100bn) off Tesla’s value amid concern that Elon Musk may have to sell shares in the electric carmaker to fund his personal contribution to his $44bn acquisition of Twitter. Tesla stock has been targeted despite …
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David Kaye, Jillian York, Jeff Kosseff and Roger NcNamee discuss the choices at the billionaire’s disposal Here’s a juxtaposition that many American observers may have missed in the hubbub over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter: just last Friday the European Union provisionally agreed to the most far-reaching internet regulation in a generation. The Digital Services …
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Japan reports child with acute liver disease of unknown origin, and Canada investigating similar cases, with nearly 200 now recorded worldwide A mysterious liver disease that has infected children in a dozen countries around the world has reached Asia, with a case reported in Japan. The case in Japan of acute hepatitis – or inflammation …
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