19 h. ago How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’

At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a starA montage of Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, and waving US flags set to a remix of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck blasts out as the intro for the tech billionaire’s interview with Sourcery, a YouTube show presented by the digital finance platform Brex. Over the course of a friendly walk through the company offices, Karp fields no questions about Palantir’s controversial ties to ICE but instead extolls the company’s virtues, brandishes a sword and discusses how he exhumed the remains of his childhood dog Rosita to rebury them near his current home.“That’s really sweet,” host Molly O’Shea tells Karp. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Disturbing Paul Doyle twist that casts doubt on 'family man' claims

Before he carried out his atrocious Liverpool attack, Paul Doyle was reportedly well thought of by friends and neighbours. But his social media activity appears to show the "fantastic" family man in a very different light

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41 h. ago Loose Women viewers hit out at Nadia Sawalha for 'body shaming' after comment about pal who has 'lost far too much weight', as fans fume 'you don't call people fat, so don't call people thin'

Loose Women's Nadia Sawalha has caused a storm on social media after 'body shaming' a friend on weight loss jabs for after she 'lost far too much weight'.

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44 h. ago Two killers 'sent cruel Facebook messages to victims' families' while behind bars

A mum has been left horrified after her son's killer made friends with a fellow murderer and began taunting her on social media sites like Snapchat and Facebook

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4 d. ago Joan Branson dead: Richard's heartbreaking tribute to 'best friend'

Virgin boss Richard Branson has announced that his wife Joan has sadly died, as he took to social media issuing a tear-jerking tribute to his 'best friend'

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6 d. ago Udo Kier, German actor who starred in 200 films spanning Lars von Trier to Ace Ventura, dies aged 81

Actor who appeared in My Own Private Idaho, Blade, Armageddon and Dogville, as well as Madonna music videos and video games, died on SundayUdo Kier, the German actor who appeared in 275 roles across Hollywood and European cinema, including multiple films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gus Van Sant and Lars von Trier, has died aged 81.Kier died on Sunday morning, his partner Delbert McBride told Variety. The actor died in hospital in Palm Springs, California, his friend the photographer Michael Childers announced on social media. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Inside I'm A Celeb's Angry Ginge and Aitch's friendship that goes way back

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! fans have been loving the friendship between rapper Aitch and social media star Angry Ginge

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8 d. ago Tech should help us be creative. AI rips our creativity away | Dave Schilling

AI-generated songs are topping Spotify charts. This isn’t about the ‘democratization’ of art – it’s about scaleMaking music is hard. Well, at least it used to be. I remember the old days, when you had to spend hours and hours honing skills, coming up with something clever or personal to say, then actually recording sounds that people would want to listen to. But that’s the past. In our sparkling future, a pre-teen can dump a bunch of words into a machine and out comes a catchy tune. In 2025, a robot can be a pop star. (Although Data from Star Trek did drop an album back in the 90s. How soon we all forget.)Three AI-generated songs recently topped Spotify’s “Viral 50” charts. One of the “creators” responsible for these songs, Broken Veteran, who squirted out a track about immigration policies, told the Guardian that AI is “just another tool for expression, particularly valuable for people like me who have something to say but lack traditional musical training”. It used to be that if y...

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1 week ago A Man on the Inside season two review – Ted Danson’s despicably bland show is everything wrong with TV

Only our current tech hellscape could create a comedy so insidiously inoffensive. Prepare to be pummelled into submission as your time is siphoned off by OK entertainmentThis is a cosy, lighthearted whodunnit about a retired professor who gets a second wind as a private eye. It’s also a bingo card for just about everything that makes streamer-era TV so patronising, uninspiring and mind-numbingly dull.On the surface, A Man on the Inside’s crimes might seem negligible: it’s a little schmaltzy, a little too pleased with itself in that wisecrack-stuffed American comedy way. Yet it’s exactly that inoffensiveness that makes this strain of television so insidious. When the New York Times critic James Poniewozik coined the term “mid TV” to describe the current “profusion of well-cast, sleekly produced competence” that has come to dominate our screens, it wasn’t so much a vicious takedown as a shrug at the blah-ness of it all. The tech giants have pummelled us into submission by siphoning of...

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1 week ago ‘My ADHD led me to invent fingernails that could link to a credit card’

Eneni Bambara-Abban wants to prove that tech can be ‘fun’ through her wild creations

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2 w. ago 'Beautiful' teenage girl stabbed to death at home named as tributes pour in

Her friends are turning social media pink in her memory, with multiple tributes on social media describing the 17-year-old as a 'beautiful' and 'lovely' girl

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2 w. ago Luke Littler would head into I’m a Celebrity jungle for the ‘right price’

Littler’s social media star friend Morgan Burtwistle, known as Angry Ginge, is taking part in the 2025 edition of the ITV show.

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2 w. ago Brits ‘trust AI more’ than the Government and even their own friends and family, poll finds

BRITS trust AI more than the government, social media influencers – and friends and family, according to a report. A study of five thousand adults found 44 per cent believe AI will provide them with more truth and facts, compared to 38 per cent who trust in the government. As 57 per cent believe most...

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2 w. ago Betty Harford dead: Dynasty and The Paper Chase icon dies surrounded by family

Actress Betty Harford, who is most famous for appearing on eight seasons of Dynasty, has died, her close friend has announced on social media

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2 w. ago China creates a new visa, competing with the US in wooing global tech talent

China has a new visa scheme that is creating job opportunities for foreign professionals, part of its effort to attract global talent and gain an edge in global technology

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3 w. ago Lipstick, manicures ... and fascism: the ugliness behind the $450bn beauty industry

In their new book The House of Beauty, beauty writer Arabelle Sicardi examines the good, the bad and the ugly of the lucrative industryThe very first sentence of Arabelle Sicardi’s book, The House of Beauty, reads: “When I tell you that beauty is a monster, I need you to know it is my favorite kind.”Sicardi, who splits their time between New York City and Los Angeles, has a love/hate relationship with the beauty industry. A writer and consultant working in beauty and tech, their projects include a beauty newsletter, a creative collective called Perfumed Pages and a non-profit arts project called the Museum of Nails Foundation. In their new book, they examine the impact of the $450bn beauty industry – the pretty and the very ugly. Continue reading...

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