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Codemasters: UK games firm to sell to Take-Two
Veteran British video game company Codemasters has confirmed it plans to sell to US giant Take-Two.
Codemasters is best known for its racing games, including the Dirt Rally series and Formula 1 licences.
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Coronavirus: Britons should be paid to take COVID-19 vaccine, says Oxford professor
People should be paid to have a COVID-19 jab so the country reaches herd immunity as quickly as possible, a leading ethicist has suggested.
Professor Julian Savulescu from the University of Oxford said incentives would help to overcome!-->!-->!-->…
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WhatsApp lets messages vanish after seven days
WhatsApp is introducing a "disappearing messages" option that will erase chats from the phone of both the sender and recipient after seven days.
The Facebook-owned app, which has two billion users worldwide, said the setting would help!-->!-->!-->…
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Bitcoin: $1bn seized from Silk Road account by US government
More than $1bn (£772m) in Bitcoin linked to the notorious Silk Road website has been seized by the US Department of Justice (DoJ).
Earlier this week, crypto-currency watchers noticed about 70,000 bitcoins being moved from an account!-->!-->!-->…
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Fortnite set to return to iPhones via Nvidia cloud gaming service
Owners of iPhones and iPads could soon be able to play Fortnite again, via a cloud service.
Nvidia has developed a version of its GeForce cloud gaming service that runs in the mobile web browser Safari.
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Meryl Streep Will Be Presenting Amal Clooney with This Prestigious Award
Both Meryl Streep and Amal Clooney are formidable women. One is regarded as the greatest Hollywood actor of our time and the other, a passionate humanitarian and barrister. They are both celebrated across the globe for their individual!-->…
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UK contact-tracing apps start to talk to each other
The United Kingdom's various contact-tracing apps can now intercommunicate, allowing people to be matched from the different areas they cover.
Until now, users needed to download separate Covid-19 apps and change settings if - for!-->!-->!-->…
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Santa to visit virtually as Christmas grottos cancelled
Santa will be visiting children virtually this year, as grottos close and Christmas events are cancelled because of coronavirus.
Businesses have switched from planning physical meetings to arranging video calls "to the North Pole" with!-->!-->!-->…
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Uber and Lyft win battle over driver status in California
Voters in California have passed a measure that will see freelance workers continue to be classified as independent contractors, in a victory for companies such as Uber and Lyft.
It overturns a landmark labour law passed last year that!-->!-->!-->…
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5G: Using drones to beam signals from the stratosphere
Plans to beam 5G signals to the public via drones that stay airborne for nine days at a time have been announced by two UK firms.
They want to use antenna-equipped aircraft powered by hydrogen to deliver high-speed connectivity to wide!-->!-->!-->…
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