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The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android
The author, a longtime Android user who spent time on the iPhone before switching back to a OnePlus 15, reflects on the friction involved in moving between the two ecosystems. While transferring data such as WhatsApp chats, contacts and calendars has become far simpler than before, the piece highlights that Apple’s ecosystem still creates significant…
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A forgotten mission: NASA once planned to send astronauts to Venus
NASA studied a proposal in the late 1960s to send three astronauts on a flyby of Venus, rather than land them there, using Apollo-derived hardware and a Saturn V rocket. The abandoned concept illustrates how the Apollo programme briefly opened the possibility of more ambitious human missions beyond the Moon, before changing priorities and funding…
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This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
A cybersecurity researcher named Bill Swearingen has developed computer-generated patterns that, when applied to clothing or vehicles, prevent surveillance cameras and licence plate readers from detecting people or objects covered by them. Rather than blocking cameras from recording, the patterns, part of a project called noRecognition, scramble the detection algorithms so no alert is triggered,…
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‘I kept catching people giving me dirty looks’: the backlash against Meta smart glasses
Meta’s smartglasses, which can discreetly record video, have prompted a strong public backlash amid fears they are being used to film people, particularly women, without their consent. The devices have been dubbed “pervert glasses” online, and content creators who wear them for entirely innocuous purposes are being met with hostile accusations, reflecting broader unease about…
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Depraved Citibank executive who drugged and raped young women in his swanky NYC apartment seen with scruffy beard and shackles as he now faces GUN charges
A former Citibank executive accused of drugging and raping young women at his New York apartment has now been hit with additional gun charges, with new images showing him in custody sporting a scruffy beard and shackles. The case highlights the alleged predatory conduct of a once high-flying finance professional and adds a weapons dimension…
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This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs
King’s Cross in London, once notorious for drugs and prostitution in the 1980s, has become one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence hubs, ranking alongside San Francisco and Beijing. Since Google DeepMind moved there in 2016, the area now known as the “Knowledge Quarter” has attracted major AI players including OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Isomorphic…
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PS5’s Fastest Growing Open World Adds Beach Volleyball, Jet Skis, and Construction Work
Chinese developer Hotta Studio is rolling out another substantial content update to its open-world PS5 title NTE on 19th August, adding activities including beach volleyball, jet ski races, and construction-based minigames. The update continues the game’s unusually rapid pace of expansion, following a previous update that introduced an entire fantasy RPG mode, and reflects the…
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Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend
A Verge senior editor recounts how using Dropbox to back up his home-built PC’s files saved him after two separate hard drive failures, arguing that cloud backup is essential insurance for anyone with a lot of important local data. He set up Dropbox to mirror his work partition after taking on a large crowdfunded project…
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‘Our Time Will Come’ Review: Two Orphans Journey to Accra to Find Their Kin in an Emotionally Absorbing Ghanaian Drama
Amartei Armar’s debut feature “Our Time Will Come” is an emotionally resonant Ghanaian drama that follows two orphaned children as they journey to Accra in search of family, drawing loose inspiration from “Oliver Twist” while avoiding excessive misery. The film premiered at Locarno after being developed through Marrakech’s 2025 Atlas Workshops under the working title…
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Live updates: El-Sayed, Ocasio-Cortez set for Sunday show appearances
The supplied article text contains no news content; it only reports that access to the page was denied because JavaScript appears to be disabled. As a result, the reported live updates and the significance of the scheduled appearances cannot be independently summarised. The title indicates that Abdul El-Sayed and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were due to appear…