By turns as cerebral as Star Trek, as hopeful as Asimov and as dramatic as Battlestar Galactica, the video game series deserves a place among the sci-fi greats Our species will one day end. Whether it’s down to our own hubris, the disastrous effects of unbridled wealth accumulation and social division, war, the climate crisis, …
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Demand for voice actors increases, providing relief for workers whose other sources of income has dried up Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage It was not only audiences that turned to video games during the pandemic. With theatres closed, and TV and film production on hiatus, British actors chose work they could …
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The artist and social media critic on his work subverting the manipulative practices of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter When the history of the first decades of this century comes to be written, there will be few more telling artworks than Ben Grosser’s film Order of Magnitude. In the 47 minute video, Grosser, a digital artist …
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Within weeks of her appointment to the commission, Facebook and Amazon asked that she be recused from antitrust investigations Lina Khan has some of the biggest companies in the world shaking in their boots. The 32-year-old antitrust scholar and law professor in June became the youngest person in history and the most progressive in more …
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Brits didn’t ditch pizza and curry takeaways after lockdown ended, but delivery firms’ valuations don’t reflect this Ordering a takeaway and sitting down with a box set was the height of entertainment for most people during successive coronavirus lockdowns – and this served up bumper sales and profits for a string of food delivery companies. …
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Four householders with recently installed air source heat pumps discuss the ups and downs of ownership John and Carol Deed, Thriplow, Cambs“We had an air source heat pump fitted in January 2020 and it has proven to be a really good decision,” says John Deed, a former marketing executive in the car industry. Deed and …
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The tech giant says its iCloud security update is designed to help weed out images of abuse their children, but activists have voiced concerns Once upon a time, updates of computer operating systems were of interest only to geeks. No longer – at least in relation to Apple’s operating systems, iOS and Mac OS. You …
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The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system In the corner of an Ohio field, a laser-armed robot inches through a sea of onions, zapping weeds as it goes. This field doesn’t belong to a dystopian future but to Shay Myers, a …
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The company’s hostility to academic scrutiny limits our ability to understand how the platform amplifies political falsehoods Last week, Facebook disabled our personal accounts, obstructing the research we lead at New York University to study the spread of disinformation on the company’s platform. The move has already compromised our work – forcing us to suspend …
The Scottish islands are leading the way in sustainable energy and now there’s a greener way for tourists to visit them• Five more eco-friendly holidays in Scotland The giant structures rose like enormous fingers from the moorland, silhouetted against the setting sun, dwarfing me and my nine-month-old son, secure in the rucksack-carrier on my back. …
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