The Guardian |
Popis: Latest technology news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
|
||||||
Google fires 28 staff after protest against firm’s contract with Israeli government14:45 Google workers linked to No Tech for Apartheid denounce ‘flagrant act of retaliation’ in dispute over $1.2bn cloud contract Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government. The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified of… Tell us: have you experiences last-minute cancellations on Airbnb?14:45 We’d like to hear from people who have made a booking for accommodation on an online travel platform, only for their host to cancel it at the last minute We’re interested in hearing from people who have made a booking for accommodation on an online travel platform, only for their host to cancel it at the last minute. Earlier this year, Taylor Swift fans in Australia were left without accommodatio… Reigns Beyond review – sci-fi silliness meets rock band road trip14:45 iPad/iPhone, Nintendo Switch (version tested), PC; Nerial/Devolver Digital Quick-witted and hilarious, this madcap band tour/space caper is sold short by its premise You may remember the Reigns series from its excellent Game of Thrones tie-in : its signature is Tinder-esque card swiping, where you make snap decisions on what to say or do by flicking left or right, before watching the consequences… Nothing Ear (a) review: cheaper, smaller, longer-lasting earbuds13:07 Funky transparent design backed by good sound and noise cancelling make these budget buds winners The tech firm Nothing’s latest set of cut-price Bluetooth earbuds offer great sound and noise cancelling for an even more competitive price, while continuing to stand out from the crowd through cool design. The London-based firm has launched the budget Ear (a), which keep almost everything that was g… How one woman’s private paradise turned into her own personal hell10:56 Alice Levine’s The Price of Paradise follows the story of Jayne Gaskin, and the Caribbean island that wasn’t all it seemed. Plus: five of the best bad movie podcasts • Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Interactive true crime-style podcasts for armchair detectives to roll their sleeves up and play along with aren’t totally new (see: Solve ) – but the latest audio game sound… Students turning to cyberfraud as huge phishing site infiltrated, police reveal9:51 LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information – with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK University students have turned to cyber fraud to boost their income, police have said, as they revealed they have infiltrated a huge phishing site on the dark web responsible for scamming tens of thousands of people. The site called LabHost was active since 2021 and was a cyber fraud superstore, allowing users to produce realistic-looking websites from … TikTok questioned by EU over Lite app that ‘pays’ users for watching videos17.dubna European Commission has concerns about app’s impact on children, as well as addiction The EU has given TikTok 24 hours to provide a risk assessment over a new service it has launched amid concerns it could encourage children to become addicted to videos on the platform. The watch-and-get-rewarded application, TikTok Lite, launched in France and Spain this month, in effect offers users prizes such… Tesla asks shareholders to back $56bn pay for Elon Musk rejected by judge17.dubna Delaware court in nullified compensation deal based on carmaker’s market value in January, calling it ‘unfathomable sum’ Tesla on Wednesday asked its shareholders to once again approve CEO Elon Musk ‘s record-breaking $56bn pay that was set in 2018, but was rejected by a Delaware judge in January. The compensation includes no salary or cash bonus, but sets rewards based on Tesla’s market value ri… ‘Eat the future, pay with your face’: my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint17.dubna If the experience of robot-served fast-food dining is any indication, the future of sex robots is going to be very unpleasant On 1 April, the same day California’s new $20 hourly minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect, a new restaurant opened in north-east Los Angeles that was conspicuously light on human staff. CaliExpress by Flippy claims to be the world’s first fully autonomous re… How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English16.dubna Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. Plus, new AI gadgets are coming for your smartphones • Don’t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here We’re witnessing the birth of AI-ese, and it’s not what anyone could have guessed. Let’s delve deeper. If you’ve spent enough t… As if Wes Anderson ran amok at Aardman: Harold Halibut, the visually stunning puppet adventure game16.dubna Fourteen years in the making, this character-driven sci-fi tale is a wonder of technology and imagination so texturally convincing you’ll want to touch it Ticktock, ticktock. In the dripping confines of the Fedora 1, an aquatic space colony of exquisite retro-futuristic design, it’s not water but time that exerts an unmistakable pressure on inhabitants. A cataclysmic meteor looms on the horizon, … Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech with online child safety bills15.dubna Nine states are hashing out bills to protect minors online. Tech companies are fighting the laws with everything they’ve got On 6 April, Maryland became the first state in the US to pass a “Kids Code” bill, which aims to prevent tech companies from collecting predatory data from children and using design features that could cause them harm. Vermont’s legislature held its final hearing before a fu… ‘They even got a real jetpack in there!’: Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan on Fallout15.dubna The director of the Fallout TV series and the director of the modern Fallout video games sit down together to talk about the audacity of video-game storytelling and hope in a post-apocalyptic wasteland If you had asked director Jonathan Nolan what his favourite film of the year was in the late 00s, more often than not he would have given you the name of a video game instead. “Having grown up with… Now Play This 2024 review – the eccentricity is the point15.dubna Somerset House, London A world away from Fortnite and Call of Duty, the UK’s biggest festival of experimental games celebrates quirky one-offs and making it up as you go along Video game conventions are typically boisterous affairs, as thousands of visitors queue under a constellation of screens for the chance to play one of the hundreds of as-yet unreleased titles on display. Now in its 10th yea… How Neopets’ nostalgic revival tripled users in six months14.dubna An icon of millennials’ childhoods languished for nearly two decades. Now it’s attempting a comeback – banking on the fact that it hasn’t changed at all In the early 2000s, Olivia Packenham would get home from school, listen to the familiar sound of the dial up tone as her family computer connected to the internet, and navigate her AOL browser to the virtual gaming world of Neopets. Starting at t… |
Noviny
Sépie
Černé
Konzole
Modré
Přihlásit
Založit účet
Souhrn
Moje
Z domova
Lifestyle
Kultúra
Tech
Ekonomika
Šport
Zo sveta
Bulvár
Ostatné