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10 days ago+34 34 0Months 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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2 weeks ago+45 45 0iOS 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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3 weeks ago+34 34 0Egypt'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 ago+40 40 0Will 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 ago+28 28 0Fury 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 ago+39 39 0The 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 ago+45 45 0Meta, 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 ago+43 43 0Reddit 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 ago+31 31 0Bloomberg: 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- ...
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2 months ago+30 30 0'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 ...
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2 months ago+28 28 0US 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, ...
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2 months ago+32 32 0France 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 ago+29 29 0The 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 ago+31 31 0Here’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 ago+21 21 0The 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 disbur ...
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3 months ago+36 36 0Plagiarism 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 th ...
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3 months ago+35 35 0The Wiretap: A Nintendo Switch Helped Rescue A Missing Teenager 500 Miles From Home
Last August, Jane, a 14-year-old from Norfolk, Virginia, went missing for two weeks. Her worried family, who put out urgent pleas to local media, were baffled by the girl’s disappearance. An introvert and a homebody, Jane (whose real name Forbes is c ...
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4 months ago+33 33 0I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped
Electric motoring is, in theory, a subject about which I should know something. My first university degree was in electrical and electronic engineering, with a subsequent master’s in control systems. Combine this, perhaps surprising, academic pathway ...
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4 months ago+29 29 0Amazon to pay $38 million settlement over allegations of hoarding children's data
Amazon agrees to pay a civil penalty to settle allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids' voice and location data recorded by its popular Alexa voice assistant.
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4 months ago+22 22 0FDA approves GSK's RSV vaccine for older adults, world's first shot against virus
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an RSV vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline for use on adults ages 60 and older. The approval, the first ever globally by a regulatory body for an RSV vaccine, is a decisive victory for GSK in a ...