In this week’s newsletter: unlike films or music, not many games are preoccupied with romance – who gets it right? Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian’s gaming newsletter. If you’d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in …
An animal welfare group alleges that monkey test subjects endured ‘crude surgeries’ and ‘extreme suffering’ Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink is defending itself against claims that its researchers abused monkeys in the testing of its products. Neuralink – which hopes to create a revolutionary interface that would allow humans to control devices with their …
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Some 46,000 regional users left without service for seven hours and more than 500 had no internet for two weeks Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing A micrometeorite slamming into a satellite was the likely cause of a seven-hour outage for NBN Co internet users in December, a Senate hearing has …
CEO of company formerly called Facebook touts pivot at all-hands meeting as he faces investment concerns “Move fast”, “build awesome things” and “live in the future” were among Meta’s new internal values introduced by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, as the company grapples with growing pains in its pivot towards virtual reality and the “metaverse”. Speaking …
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SEC filing does not disclose name of charity while analysts say ‘tax benefit would be huge’ Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, donated a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world’s most valuable automaker to a charity from 19 November to 29 November last year, its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed …
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Windows PC (Game pass, Steam); Creative Assembly/SegaThis sprawling medieval fantasy brings together romantic and classical strategy game design with spectacular results When Game of Thrones ended, I promised myself I would never again become invested in a sprawling medieval fantasy where humanity makes a desperate last stand against an apocalyptic foe, at the onset of …
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Labor board overturned first election over company’s unfair conduct, giving workers another chance to be the first Amazon facility in US to unionize Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have begun the rerun of a historic union election after the US labor regulator ruled Amazon’s conduct had interfered with a previous election in …
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Exclusive: leak shows more than half of donations to convoy protest through GiveSendGo came from US A hacker who leaked the names and locations of more than 90,000 people who donated money to the Canadian trucker convoy protest has said it exposed how money from abroad had funded “extremism” in the country. In an exclusive …
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Move is part of an investigation into suspected VAT fraud scheme involving 250 fake companies The UK tax department has seized three non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as part of an investigation into a suspected VAT fraud scheme involving 250 fake companies. HM Revenue and Customs said on Monday it had seized the NFTs and arrested three …
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PlayStation 4; PlayStation 5; Guerrilla Games/Sony For a big-budget blockbuster game, Horizon Forbidden West is extremely weird. It is a detailed science-fiction story about a red-haired outcast warrior, the tribes that inhabit a post-apocalyptic Earth a thousand years in the future, and a bunch of robot dinosaurs. It’s a tangle of different ideas and complicated …
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