Companies including Microsoft and Apple are attempting to build ‘Netflix for games’ Video game developers are champing at the bit ahead of an influx of money from some of the biggest technology companies in the world as they compete to build a “Netflix for games”. At the centre of the contest are Microsoft and Sony, …
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Parag Agrawal says the company’s largest shareholder has declined to join the board, and ‘I believe this is for the best’ Elon Musk, Twitter’s biggest shareholder, has decided not to join the social media company’s board, its chief executive, Parag Agrawal, has said. Musk, who disclosed a 9.2% stake in Twitter just a few days …
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The Tesla boss, who now has a 9.2% stake in the social network, has offered suggestions and criticisms in a series of tweets Elon Musk has set out his vision for Twitter after buying a 9.2% stake in the company, in a series of posts on the social network described by one commentator as having …
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The mathematician and author talks about the exploitation of our feelings, cancel culture, and why she believes JK Rowling is an example of ‘punching-down shame’ Cathy O’Neil is a writer, a mathematician and author of the bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction, which won the Euler book prize. Her latest book is The Shame Machine: Who …
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Diaspora families typically travel to the region each year for wedding shopping. But the pandemic has changed everything Once a year, between December and February, brides-to-be and their families from all over the the US and Europe flock to India and Pakistan to escape the cold, wintry weather, visit family and, perhaps most importantly, shop …
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Husbands, wives and children: there was something for everyone at the Earl’s Court Motor Show that year ‘Probably the safest place to drive a car in Britain now is in the middle of a Scottish loch,’ is the arresting beginning of the Observer Magazine of 16 October 1966, a special issue to coincide with the …
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Cloisters Interactive; Annapurna Interactive; Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series S/Series XA dreamlike ‘interactive poem’ explores the emotional dynamics driving an Olympic swimmer A Memoir Blue opens at a press conference, a thatch of interviewers’ microphones aimed at the protagonist as she flinches in a lightning storm of camera flashes. In her right hand …
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Unlikely stars, unexpected stories and, of course, a silly video of a pet The rise of TikTok: why Facebook is worried about the social app Former postman Nathan Evans’ rendition of Wellerman, a 19th-century folk song about the whaling trade, went viral during the Covid lockdown in the first half of last year and single-handedly …
Chinese-owned video platform is set to overtake the advertising scale of Twitter and Snapchat combined • TikTok: five of the UK’s favourite videos TikTok is on track to overtake the global advertising scale of Twitter and Snapchat combined this year, and to match mighty YouTube within two years, as trendsetting teens and young adults make …
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The New York-based photographer and his wife adopted an injured bird, which gets annoyed when they leave it home alone Jeffery Jones had a parakeet as a kid but never considered himself a bird fanatic. Yet when he and his wife settled into an apartment block in New York’s East Village, the pair began noticing …
