Apple to split app store in two
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It is something King Solomon would have done

Apple is getting ready to break the App Store "in two" in the next few weeks before European Union rules that will make Apple let users download apps from anywhere.

Self-checkout tech flop
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Shoppers and stores lost out

Self-checkout at stores had failed mainly as a technology, with the stores and customers losing out.

Apple ditches blood-oxygen feature to dodge US ban
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Mysteriously can’t invent it after allat 

Apple is scrapping a blood-oxygen feature from its new smartwatches - the Series 9 and Ultra 2 - to avoid a US ban over a patent row with Masimo.

GTA star rages at AI firm for stealing his voice
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GTA 5's Michael De Santa gets out his bat

Ned Luke, the actor who plays GTA 5's Michael De Santa, has blasted an AI firm that made an unlicensed voice chatbot based on the character and got the dodgy bot wiped from the internet.

Electric bus goes up in flames
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London's burning

A fleet of electric buses has been pulled off the roads after a doubledecker burst into flames in south London.

Atari is back
Published in Gaming
15 January 2024

Atari is back


Retro Games reveals tiny version of first gaming computer

Retro Games is bringing back the Atari 400, the first home computer that rocked as a game system, in a mini version that can play the entire 8-bit Atari range.

Internet Brands bosses beg staff to return to office in cringe video
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This sort of thing is the reason we don’t want to return

Internet Brands bosses are baffled by why the workers at the firm don't want to return to the office. They have made a toe-curling video to lure them back. But word on the street is that it is backfiring.

Boffins build a giant brain for a robot
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One brain to rule them

Two researchers have revealed how they are creating a single super-brain that can pilot any robot, no matter how different they are.

Musk sues US labour court's right to exist
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Courts should not be allowed to investigate rich people's labour abuses

Self-styled “free speech absolutist” Elon [look at me] Musk has set his legal hounds on a US labour watchdog which objected to him firing staff who said they didn’t like him.

Apple tells 121 staff to move to Texas
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Or be fired

Apple has told 121 workers in its San Diego Siri team that they will have to move to Texas or face the sack.