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4 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
Months after declaring Tomb Raider unaffected by layoffs, Tomb Raider dev hit with wave of layoffs
Embracer Group's bloodbath continues as Tomb Raider dev Crystal Dynamics reports layoffs
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8 days agoCurrent Event aj0690
iOS 17 Launching Tomorrow for iPhones With These 10 New Features
In June, Apple announced iOS 17 with a wide range of new features and changes for the iPhone. Following over three months of beta testing, the free...
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event aj0690
Egypt's August headline inflation jumps to a record 37.4%
Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation rate surged to a higher-than-expected record 37.4% in August from 36.5% in July, data from the country's statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Sunday.
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1 month agoExpression aj0690
Will Musk’s Removing X/Twitter User-Blocking Feature Get It Kicked Off Apple and Google App Stores?
Elon Musk set off a firestorm Friday by announcing that Twitter, now called X, would “delete” the service’s longstanding user-blocking feature — raising the prospect that, a…
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
Fury as national health check of England’s waters delayed by six years
Exclusive: Assessment that used to happen annually will now take six years despite rising concerns
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1 month agoCurrent Event aj0690
The Kinks’ former keyboardist John Gosling dies aged 75
Members pay tribute to ‘great man’ who played with band in 1970s
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2 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly
Overture Maps Foundation is trying to collect enough data so that companies can build maps they own and operate rather than paying Google and Apple.
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2 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
Reddit is testing “official” labels for profiles and making parts of its app compatible with screen readers
The “Official” label is a small test to start.
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2 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
Bloomberg: Apple considering price hike for iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max
Apple is considering raising the price of the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, according to a new report from Bloomberg. As a reminder, the iPhone 14 Pro currently starts at $999 and the iPhone 14 Pro Max starts at $1,099. The price of the lower-end iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus would remain the same.
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2 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
'Barbenheimer' sparks biggest UK box office opener since 2019
According to the UK Cinema Association, that makes it the most successful weekend for UK cinema-going since 2019. That year, Disney blockbuster Avengers: Endgame opened with takings of £43.7m. The Vue cinema chain said this weekend marked the second biggest in its history by admissions.
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2 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
US heatwave: 'Dangerous’ temperatures could set new records
Parts of the US are expected to see record temperatures on Sunday, with warnings of "dangerous" heat levels into next week across the south-west. Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories, from Florida to California and up to Washington state. The country's National Weather Service (NWS) has urged people not to underestimate the risk to life.
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2 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones
VPN services and other security tools won't be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What's next for France's justice reform bill?
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3 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
The FTC Forces Ring to Take User Privacy Seriously
Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which will require the company to pay $5.8 million over its inability to keep private footage and audio collected from users’ homes.
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3 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
Reddit is trying to turn mods against mods.
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3 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted
An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has disbursed in COVID relief aid.
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3 months agoCurrent Event aj0690
Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet
Search has always been the Internet’s most important utility. Before Google became dominant, there were many contenders for the search throne, from Altavista to Lycos, Excite, Zap, Yahoo (mainly as a directory) and even Ask Jeeves. The idea behind the World Wide Web is that there’s power in having a nearly infinite number of voices. But with millions of publications and billions of web pages, it would be impossible to find all the information you want without search.