Top-priced, big screen, two-day battery life and cracking cameras – but just too heavy to beat the best Apple’s latest super-sized smartphone is a beast in all directions, but is bigger really better? The iPhone 13 Pro Max is Apple’s most expensive smartphone, starting at £1,049 ($1,099/A$1,849) – at least £100 more than other models. […]
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Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online – podcast
Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activities. By Huib Modderkolk
Elon Musk targets Bernie Sanders over tax: ‘I keep forgetting you’re still alive’
Tesla founder responds to senator’s ‘fair share’ tweet Musk sold nearly $7bn of stock after controversial Twitter poll Biden approval ratings plunge amid crisis over inflation Elon Musk waded into yet another Twitter controversy on Sunday, the Tesla owner and world’s richest person responding to a tweet about tax from Senator Bernie Sanders by writing: […]
An exclusive type of club called ‘Dao’ is popping up online. What’s it all about? | Geoff Mak
We are told these members-only groups are the beginnings of Web 3.0. Are they all they are hyped up to be? I have seen the light, and I was not convinced. This month, I was invited to a party hosted by Friends With Benefits, an exclusive club of artists and investors who have access to […]
Houses of tomorrow: A more hopeful vision of domesticity, or a dystopian nightmare?
In the future, will we find a better way to live, or will our homes be taken over by surveillance and despotic appliances? Imagine, if you can, a small, bluish room. Wires, screens, sensors. A few keepsakes from the old world. The room’s fleshy inhabitant, confined indoors by a zoonotic pandemic, greenwashes a data-mining company […]
Want to keep tabs on your working-from-home staff? Resist the urge
Companies offering remote monitoring software are booming. But spying on your employees is no way to treat people A year ago, while still in the grips of the pandemic, workers at many businesses – small and large – were continuing to work from home mostly due to either government or corporate mandates. Now, as the […]
Battery failures like Johnson Matthey risk leaving British carmakers disconnected
The UK automotive industry will need a large local supply of battery capacity. If it does not get it, it could shrink quickly The end of the internal combustion engine was one of the goals identified by Boris Johnson before Cop26. The climate summit in Glasgow has delivered in part – some manufacturers and a […]
Lennie and Jessie Ware’s recipe for podcast success
How do musician Jessie Ware and her mother Lennie get everyone from popstars to politicians to tell all on their podcast? They cook them lunch If the British media are still looking for the new Jeremy Paxman, she’s been hiding in plain sight under our noses for four years now: a Jewish grandma with sciatica […]
A primordial soup of exploding trends and memes: TikTok’s wild world of video games
From pastiches of stilted old animations to trash-talking pubescents meeting their match, TikTok’s gaming zone is an often maddening place, full of energy, attitude – and space skullduggery Gaming culture has lived online since the internet became a thing, so it is no surprise that TikTok is now a primordial soup of video game memes. […]
Would Schubert have liked cat videos and Squid Game memes? TikTok’s classical music sensations
The platform is full of tips, in-jokes, insights and some great mini-recitals, perfect for demystifying the music world. Our critic even learns how to play the violin hook to Britney Spears’ Toxic You might not think TikTok lends itself to the best of classical music and opera. After all, no classical fan ever said: “What […]