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Western users may be logging off, but across the continent of Africa, the social media company is indispensable for everything from running a business to sourcing vaccines. How has it become so inescapable? Badri Ibrahim is a Sudanese comic artist and the founder of the Abbas Comics empire. His strips are quirky and irreverent, poking …

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The video game industry is bigger than the film and music industries combined – yet has faced far less scrutiny than major tech companies like Facebook and Google Microsoft recently announced plans to purchase Activision Blizzard – one of the world’s largest video game companies – for nearly $70bn, making it the biggest acquisition in …

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Suspicious US regulators and a problematic culture at the video game firm need to be overcome to realise AR vision If the world of Call of Duty seems fraught enough when you are playing it, try being in it. That could be the consequence of Microsoft’s proposed $68.7bn (£50.4bn) acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the video …

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Papers leaked by Frances Haugen revealed users in India were inundated with fake news and anti-Muslim posts Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen and other prominent whistleblowers have renewed calls for Facebook to release a long-awaited report on its impact in India, alleging the company is purposely obscuring human rights concerns. More than 20 organizations on …

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Global headquarters forced to shut down computer systems for programme that reunites families separated by conflict The International Committee of the Red Cross has been the victim of a cyber-attack in which hackers seized the data of more than 515,000 extremely vulnerable people, some of whom had fled conflicts. “A sophisticated cybersecurity attack against computer …

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Investors react to possibility that Playstation and subscription service will lose Activision Blizzard games $20bn (£14.7bn) has been wiped off the value of Sony after its rival Microsoft announced a record-breaking deal to buy the Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard and take the console wars into the metaverse. Shares in the Japanese conglomerate closed …

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The company’s bottomless appetite for buying new studios means the art of the deal is threatening the art – and heart – of the game In 2014, Microsoft bought Minecraft’s developer Mojang for what seemed, at the time, an eye-popping figure: $2.5bn (£1.8bn). It was the first in a series of bullish video-game studio acquisitions …

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In this week’s newsletter: How a judge’s ruling could pave the way for a costly, lengthy legal battle over the future of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Mark Zuckerberg has a fascination with ancient Rome, but last week a court decision threatened …

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PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One Xbox Series X/S; UbisoftThis tense co-operative shooter is thoroughly entertaining, as much for the ideas it borrows as the ideas it comes up with Sometimes a video game can be thoroughly entertaining, not for any new ideas it brings to the table, but for the way in which it combines …

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Tightening regulations and a growing eco-conscious workforce are major factors in heralding green office campuses Around 40 miles south of San Francisco, three futuristic structures rise from the earth. With sloping roofs clad in thousands of overlapping tiles, the buildings could be mistaken for the world’s most architecturally advanced circus tent. They are, in fact, …

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