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Nostalgic gaming: how playing the video games of your youth reconnects you to yourself
With emulators available even on smartphones, dipping into your playing past is easier…
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It’s Christmas in the Metaverse: welcome to your Zuckerbergian nightmare
Holiday family gatherings in Meta’s virtual world would probably include robot avatars…
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Tesla, bowing to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving
The company will send out a software update that will prevent its games from being pla…
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Intel apologises to China over Xinjiang products and labour directive
US chipmaker responds to backlash after telling its suppliers to avoid region at centr…
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Lebanon faces ‘depressing’ Christmas as internet crisis stops festive calls
With telecoms barely working, a plunging currency and young people emigrating, it’s a …
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The best of the long read in 2021
Our 20 favourite pieces of the year After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the l…
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‘Certainly mitigates the stress’: how to give someone an app, subscription or other virtual gift
A virtual present can be bought hassle-free as late as Christmas morning, and with a b…
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Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours
Prototype uses carousel of canisters to create flavour samples on hygienic film over f…
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Intel faces backlash in China after banning products and labour from Xinjiang
Chinese social media users call for boycott of US chip maker after it issues directive…
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What is Wordle? The new viral word game delighting the internet
A pleasant little daily brainteaser, Wordle is a simple, shareable word guessing game …
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Killed by a pill bought on Snapchat: the counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens
Accidental deaths soar among young people amid a proliferation of fentanyl-filled phar…
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US investigates claim Tesla drivers can play video games while driving
‘Passenger play’ feature has been available since December 2020 – before that, games c…
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TechScape: can AI really predict crime?
Up for discussion in this week’s newsletter: Years after shuttering a similarly contro…
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Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator review – ghoulish satire of human greed
Xbox One, Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows, PC; Strange Scaffold Our compulsi…
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The sketchy economy that helps Roblox make its millions
In the second edition of our gaming newsletter: the vastly popular kids’ game has a mo…
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