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<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> Pavel Durov, the CEO of messaging app Telegram, has been charged by French authorities over allegations he allowed criminal activity on the app. Durov was arrested in France on Saturday. He is barred from leaving the country and only avoided being held in...

<h5><strong>Facepalm:</strong> We're told that it's vital any firm in the tech industry, and plenty of those that aren't, embrace AI, lest they be left behind and potentially go out of business. Yet according to a new report, a stunning 80% of all AI projects fail, twice the failure rate of...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Not for the first time, a member of the public has foiled the plans of thieves through the use of Apple AirTags. On this occasion, two suspected mail theft suspects were caught after a California resident sent herself a package containing one of Cupertino's...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> The Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 closed beta test takes place this weekend, which means publisher Activision has confirmed the full PC specs requirements. The good news is that if you were able to run last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 without any...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> We've seen plenty of previous reports claiming that Amazon is close to launching a subscription-based version of Alexa powered by generative AI. It now appears that the service will finally land in October, just a few weeks before the US election. It's believed...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Swedish giant Ikea has launched an online marketplace that allows people to sell their used Ikea furniture. The website is currently being tested in two European locations until the end of the year, with plans for a global rollout to follow. </h5><p><img alt=""...

<h5><strong>Big quote:</strong> Mark Zuckerberg claims that Facebook was pressured by the Biden administration to take down Covid-related content during the pandemic. The Meta CEO said that he regrets acceding to the demands and not being "outspoken" about what was happening. Zuckerberg also...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> Steam's concurrent player record has been broken once again, thanks in no small part to the success of Black Myth: Wukong. A massive 37.2 million people were logged into Valve's platform over the weekend, smashing the previous record of 36 million people...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> In the world of video game-related rarities, the more obscure and hard-to-find an item is, the more money people are willing to pay. It's why a prototype Nintendo PlayStation controller recently sold for a massive $35,000 at auction – though that's still...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> Elon Musk's X received a boost this week when a California federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing the platform of discriminating against employees with disabilities following the billionaire's return-to-office mandate. The ruling is in contrast to a...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Despite being more socially acceptable today than ever before, being a gamer can still carry a stigma associated with the stereotype of the unstable loner who never leaves their room. But a new study has shown what most of us already knew: that gaming can be good...

<h5><strong>In brief:</strong> Most people assume that 3D consumer displays became obsolete many years ago, joining the likes of VHS cassettes and fax machines. But Samsung's new Odyssey gaming monitor does offer 3D capabilities, albeit with a difference: not only are glasses not required, but...

<h5><strong>What just happened?</strong> Anthropic has become the latest artificial intelligence startup to be sued by authors, who claim on this occasion that it used pirated copies of their work to train its AI model, Claude. The three authors in the class-action lawsuit say Anthropic "built a...

<h5><strong>In a nutshell:</strong> The Civilization games have been around since the start of the 1990s, entertaining millions of people. The launch date of the series' seventh numbered title has just been announced, but where did it all start? With a 386 PC in 1991 that packs 16MB of RAM, cost...

<h5><strong>A hot potato:</strong> Another company has decided to drag its employees back to the office full-time while blasting the alleged disadvantages of remote and hybrid work. Nothing, the British firm behind several stylish and well-received <a...