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Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty Images The list of would-be buyers for TikTok in the US – both rumoured and confirmed – has grown longer as the deadline for deciding its future looms. The social media giant faces being shut down in the US unless it sells to an American company by 5 April. The […]
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BBC Ben Black publishes a fake news story every year for April Fools’ Day Every year, journalist Ben Black publishes a playful fake story on his community news site Cwmbran Life for April Fools’ Day. Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club
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Tom Gerken & Tom Richardson Technology reporter & BBC Newsbeat Nintendo Nintendo has revealed the Switch 2, the long awaited successor to one of the best-selling consoles in history, will be released on June 5. Fans have been impatiently waiting to find out more since January, when the Japanese gaming giant ended months of speculation
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Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images Parents will be able to block their children from specific games and experiences on Roblox as part of new safety measures announced by the hugely popular gaming platform. They will also be able to block or report their children’s friends, and the platform will provide more information about which
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Tom Gerken, Liv McMahon & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Getty Images President Donald Trump has said a deal to sell TikTok will be made by 5 April, as questions swirl over whether the app will be banned in the United States. The platform went ‘went dark’ for US users in January as a law took
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Andrew Rogers BBC Newsbeat RLCS Fans at last year’s RLCS competition in London Conventional wisdom tells us professional athletes perform best in front of a home crowd. Great Britain’s Olympic team won a record medal haul at London 2012 and England’s Lionesses won the Euros at Wembley in 2022, 56 years after the men’s national
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Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Wikipedia/Georges Biard/Frank Sun The actress Laetitia Dosch is one of those to benefit from an improved picture. Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world but, by the admission of some of its own volunteer editors, it suffers from a persistent problem – terrible pictures, particularly of celebrities.
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Shubham Agarwal Technology Reporter Jay Springett Jay Springett experimented with new social platforms Jay Springett, a tech strategist and podcast host, joined the social media app Butterflies AI out of curiosity, and ended up staying for more than six months. The idea of Butterflies is to allow human and AI personas to interact. Mr Springett’s
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Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images Fashion retailer H&M is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create digital “twins” of 30 models. It says it will use the AI doppelgangers in some social media posts and marketing in the place of humans, if given permission by models. “We are curious to explore how to showcase
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Tom Singleton Technology reporter Getty Images OnlyFans’ parent company has been fined £1.05m after giving inaccurate information about the measures it had in place to check the age of its users. The platform – which is known for hosting sexually explicit material – says people who visit it must be at least 18 years old.
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