The app offered a $30,000 reward to track him down and shared a photo of the man, which was seen by more than 861,000 people The vigilante crime app Citizen falsely accused a California man of starting a wildfire, offering a $30,000 reward to track him down before retracting the post the next day, in …
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While many players in more traditional fine art circles feel ill-equipped to deal with the digital art trend, some contemporary art enthusiasts are going all in In 1962, the French neo-avant-garde artist Yves Klein began dealing in what he declared to be Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. In exchange for a sum of solid gold, …
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First big redesign since 2012 gives all-in-one Mac super-thin design, 4.5K display and top M1 chip performance Apple’s iMac has had its first big redesign since 2012 with a bigger screen, bold colours, remarkably thin body and the power of the M1 chip. The 24in iMac costs from £1,249 and replaces the outgoing 21.5in Intel …
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The film company, which owns the James Bond franchise, had held talks with Netflix and Apple Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM, the Hollywood studio behind the James Bond and Rocky franchises, in a $9bn (£6.3bn) deal. MGM, which put itself up for sale in December, is one of the few Hollywood studios with …
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Covid lockdowns proved bad news for phone firm as less mobile people translated into lower roaming charges Shares in Vodafone slumped by as much as 7% as investors reacted to lower than expected profits, a decline inrevenues due to the impact of pandemic travel bans and a drop in smartphone sales. The news made the …
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The most promising talent in the QPR academy would have been 30 this year and his life is commemorated in the video game to help provide inspiration to young people Promotional materials for the latest player to be added to Fifa 21 show Kiyan Prince scoring a goal. He takes a shot with his left …
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One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately-owned home security cameras without a warrant In a 2020 letter to management, Max Eliaser, an Amazon software engineer, said Ring is “simply not compatible with a free society”. We should take his claim seriously. Ring video doorbells, Amazon’s signature home security …
One family said blue sparks were flying from their modem as electrical storms wreaked havoc on fibre-to-the-curb distribution boxes NBN Co will be forced to replace 10,000 faulty broadband devices in homes across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney after residents reported the technology was frequently struck by lightning and in one instance led to …
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Monthly $2.99 subscription includes ability to organise tweets into collections and ‘undo tweet’ button Twitter is considering launching a paid subscription service called Twitter Blue, according to unreleased features of the app discovered by an independent researcher. Jane Manchun Wong, who has made a name for herself through uncovering accidentally-public upcoming features of popular apps, …
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The tech giant says it has security safeguards in place. But these tracking devices can be hacked and put to other nefarious purposes Apple has launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the much-anticipated app tracking transparency function, bolstering the tech giant’s privacy credentials. But iOS 14.5 also introduced support …
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