Critics attacked Don’t Look Up for being over the top. But the mania for NFTs shows how on-the-money the movie is On 24 December, the movie Don’t Look Up began streaming on Netflix following a limited release in cinemas. It’s a satirical story, directed by Adam McKay, about what happens when a lowly PhD student …
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The mathematician and Countdown presenter on Caribbean comfort food, a podcast for millennials and her owl-shaped bestie Born and raised in east London, the mathematician Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, 31, was announced last month as a new presenter on Countdown, covering Rachel Riley’s maternity leave. A child prodigy, Imafidon passed two GCSEs at primary school and …
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The reality show about the LA collective of TikTok stars is a bleak portrait of the relentless, inarticulable job of being oneself online The Hype House, a collective of some of TikTok’s most famous stars in the hills north-west of Los Angeles, appears to be a very lonely place even with somewhere around 10 residents …
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Angela Underwood claims Facebook ‘knowingly promoted inflammatory and violent content and connected extremists’ The sister of a security officer who was murdered in Oakland in 2020 is suing Facebook, alleging that the tech company played a part in radicalizing the two men accused of killing him. David Patrick Underwood was fatally shot and his partner …
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Our tendency towards rosy recollections of the past has been amplified in recent times, from photos on social media to retro video games I’ve always been susceptible to bouts of nostalgia. Defined as “sentimental longing for the past”, nostalgia was originally identified as an emotion afflicting people who were separated from their homeland – a …
Figure represents a 570% increase on previous year, and was 1,447 times the average Apple employee’s pay Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, was paid nearly $100m (£74m) last year, a 570% increase on the previous year, according to regulatory filings. Cook, 61, who took over as chief executive from the Apple founder Steve Jobs in …
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Mobile phone, TV, carmakers and other major players tout what’s new at the annual Las Vegas tech showcase From colour-shifting cars to digital art TVs and stress-predicting watches, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which opened on Wednesday, offered its usual mix of wacky, visionary and desirable goods. Here are some of the …
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Truth Social’s launch will come 13 months after the former president was banned from Twitter and Facebook Donald Trump’s new media venture plans to launch its social media app Truth Social on 21 February, according to an Apple Inc App Store listing. Truth Social, the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) alternative to Twitter, is …
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The ex-newsreader bears all to David Cameron’s Brexit right-hand-man in a new podcast about the life lessons to be found in traumatic experiences. Plus: a chilling true-crime show about murders in doughnut shops Desperately Seeking Wisdom With Craig OliverIf your life has “hit the buffers” in the pandemic, as it did for David Cameron’s former …
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Data privacy watchdog says websites make it difficult for users to refuse cookies France’s data privacy watchdog has fined Google and Facebook a combined €210m (£176m) for hampering users’ ability to stop the companies tracking their online activity. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) said on Thursday it had fined Google a …
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