13 HRS AGO - More than 100,000 people have come together online to build a life-size recreation of the Earth in the popular video game Minecraft. The Build The Earth project was started by a gamer known as Collapse

14 HRS AGO - The New Uniqlo Super Mario designs look great and will appeal to adults and kids with some colourful eye-popping designs Collapse

16 HRS AGO - Donald Trump is giving himself license to take over other planets, according to the Russian space agency. Roscosmos accused the president of creating a basis to seize other worlds with a new Collapse

19 HRS AGO - Before the coronavirus outbreak even began, 5G was being blamed for everything from cancer to infertility. The viral conspiracy theories typically only infected the usual tin-foil hat corners of the Collapse

20 HRS AGO - Company paid more than £1bn in wages but only £44m in UK corporation taxGoogle’s UK staff earned an average of £234,000 each last year as the tech firm paid out more than £1bn in wages and a share scheme – but paid only £44m in UK corporation tax.Google, which increased UK staff numbers by almost 800 to 4,439 last year, footed its first-ever £1bn-plus wage and salary bill for the year to the end of June. The £1.04bn total was a 25% increase on the £829m paid to staff in 2018, according to the company’s latest financial filings in the UK. Continue reading... Collapse

22 HRS AGO - WhatsApp hopes the change will help to curb the spread of misinformation amid the coronavirus pandemic Collapse

23 HRS AGO - WhatsApp has introduced major new changes that are intended to stop people spreading messages so easily. The update is intended to stop the spread of false stories, bad advice and misinformation Collapse

23 HRS AGO - A software developer’s epiphany inspires this admirable critique of capitalism, starting with the west coast tech tyrantsA month ago, when I began reading Wendy Liu’s polemic, I felt inclined to dismiss her as a millennial flibbertigibbet, motivated by a grudge against an industry that seemingly had no use for her. Liu grew up as a computing whiz-kid in Montreal and moved to San Francisco to develop software that aspired, a little tackily, to be “Tinder for advertisers”. When her entrepreneurial scheme fizzled out she transferred to the London School of Economics to study inequality, which turned her into an evangelising radical. In her book, she attacks the depressing doctrine of “capitalist realism” and its assumption that our current social and economic arrangements are unchangeable; with born-again zeal, she chastises her own “petty and narcissistic” nature and even laments “the tragedy of the human condition”. A bit excessive, surely, as a response to the failure of a Collapse

1 DAY AGO - Behaviour of some property owners labelled ‘incredibly irresponsible and dangerous’ Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAirbnb hosts have been accused of irresponsible and dangerous behaviour for advertising properties in Britain as “Covid-19 retreats”.Laws brought in to combat the spread of coronavirus state that holiday accommodation should only be provided to key workers needing to self-isolate. Continue reading... Collapse