On The Beach’ Include Content Warnings?

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Credit: Sony Content warning: This post discusses content warnings and therefore invariably includes discussion of content that may require a warning. Over at Polygon, Josh Broadwell argues that Hideo Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, “desperately needed content warnings” on release. There’s a scene in the…

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MP Rupert Lowe investigated by standards watchdog

Parliament’s standards commissioner has launched an investigation into ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe. The BBC understands it is for allegedly failing to register hundreds of thousands of pounds raised in donations to fund his independent “Rape Gang Inquiry”. More than £600,000 has been donated to a Crowdfunder started by Lowe in March to support a national…

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Viral band success spawns AI claims and hoaxes

A band called The Velvet Sundown has had its tracks played hundreds of thousands of times on Spotify since appearing several weeks ago – without anyone knowing for sure what it is. The band has a verified page on the music streaming platform, with more than 850,000 monthly listeners. However, none of the four named…

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The world’s most powerful camera just shared its first space image – and the 5 gigapixel detail is breathtaking

Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first full-resolution image It was captured using an ultra-powerful 3,200-megapixel digital camera The telescope will scan the sky for dark matter, asteroids, and Planet Nine The world’s most powerful digital camera has taken its first photos, and they reveal the cosmos in stunning detail. Shared as part of…

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