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Hilarious

November 22, 2024 Longrider 7

A politician pontificating about the Internet. A possible ban on social media for under-16s in the UK is “on the table”, the technology secretary Peter […]

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Kantar

April 2, 2024 Longrider 5

I’ve never heard of these people, but I received a letter from them. Apparently they are doing research for Google. It’s called screenwise if you […]

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Why?

October 16, 2022 Longrider 6

Seriously, why? A little under a year since Mark Zuckerberg rechristened Facebook as Meta, internal documents have revealed that his Metaverse virtual reality universe is struggling to meet its goals. […]

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Oh Dear…

March 31, 2018 Longrider 24

Another failure of auto technology. Electric carmaker Tesla says a vehicle involved in a fatal crash in California was in Autopilot mode, raising further questions […]

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Sex Robots

April 29, 2017 Longrider 11

Well, that should do wonders for my search rankings… The video is about sixteen minutes long and some of it strays into the seriously creepy […]

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How Refreshing

December 18, 2015 Longrider 0

Nanny is given the elbow… The vast majority of UK internet users are not taking advantage of net censors designed to filter out pornography and […]

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There’s Confidence

October 15, 2015 Longrider 2

Tesla. “It should not hit pedestrians, hopefully,” he told the media. “It should handle them well.” Fills you with a nice warm glow…

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Useful Idiots

January 29, 2015 Longrider 10

It’s amazing how foolish humanity can be. That’s all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of […]

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Such a Drag

September 13, 2014 Longrider 7

There’s a very simple answer to this conundrum. A group of drag queens and transgender performers have called on Facebook to allow stage names rather […]