After the year of plenty that was 2020, 2021 has so far been a pretty lean one for video games. Are things about to turn around? It has not, I’m sure we can all agree, been a standout year for video games. Although the ongoing pandemic certainly encouraged more people to play, especially online, the …
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Amid rumours that he may in fact be CGI, Goldstein – who plays Roy Kent in the hit show – posted a video that raises more questions than it answers Michael, a famous actor is being quoted proclaiming he is ‘a human man’ and not, as apparently alleged, CGI. What is going on please? Steph, …
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Missing Richard Simmons’s Dan Taberski returns with a new series about the ripple effects of the attacks which took place 20 years ago this week. Plus: Philippa Perry on sibling stresses 9/12 (Available now on Wondery+ and Amazon Music, and widely from 8 September)Unlike much of the current crop of 9/11 programming, which considers the …
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Online message board company preparing for initial public offering in early 2022, insiders say Reddit is seeking to hire investment bankers and lawyers for an initial public offering in New York, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters news agency. Reddit was valued at $10bn in a private fundraising round last month. By …
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Messaging app calls €225m fine for breaking data protection rules ‘entirely disproportionate’ Ireland’s data privacy watchdog has slapped WhatsApp with a record €225m (£193m) fine for violating EU data protection rules. The Dublin-based Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the decision on Thursday after a three-year investigation into the messaging app, which is owned by Facebook. …
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PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4; Eggnut/Raw FuryUncover a grim conspiracy and sweet-talk snooty bears in this genre-hopping indie game Private investigator Howard Lotor isn’t welcome in many joints in his home city of Vancouver. And it isn’t even because of the trenchcoat or leading questions. It’s because he’s a raccoon – and raccoons …
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‘Reader apps’ such as Spotify, Netflix and Kindle will be able to share links to help users manage accounts Apple has made a significant concession in its battle for control of the App Store, after the Japanese trade commission ruled that the company’s restrictions on apps such as Spotify, Netflix and Kindle were anticompetitive. Those …
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We live in a world where our expression of ourselves online is not false, but controlled. The video game takes me back to a more innocent, enjoyable time A few weeks ago, on a low-rumbling hangover that never threatened to push me into the abyss, something very interesting happened to me (and about 16 other …
Time spent on the ‘funhouse mirror’ of video-conferencing calls has resulted in a distortion of our self image The effects of staring at ourselves for hours at a time during video conference calls has resulted in a breakdown of how we perceive our own self image. The phenomenon has been nicknamed “Zoom dysmorphia” by the …
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Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take ‘best interests’ of child users into account A sweeping set of regulations governing how online services should treat children’s data have been welcomed by campaigners as they come into effect. The Age Appropriate Design Code – which was written into law as part of the 2018 Data …
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