TikTok faces watchdog probe after supplying inaccurate information
Ofcom had asked the viral video platform for information about its parental controls.
Twitch revamps rules on sexual content
Much content that was previously banned will now be allowed, as long as it is appropriately labelled, including that which “deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or the pelvic region”, body painting and what it dubs “erotic dances” that include people removing their clothes.
Moderna, Merck vaccine with Keytruda cuts risk of deadly skin cancer returning in half, data says
An exterior view of Moderna’s clinical manufacturing facility. David L. Ryan | Boston Globe | Getty Images Moderna and Merck‘s experimental cancer vaccine, when used in combination with Merck’s blockbuster therapy Keytruda, reduced the risk of death or relapse in patients with the most deadly form of skin cancer by half after roughly three years,…
Covid inquiry: What is it investigating and how does it work?
Image source, Getty Images By Jennifer Clarke BBC News Prime Minister Rishi Sunak robustly defended the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme he implemented as chancellor during the pandemic in his evidence to the Covid inquiry. Earlier, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted he had underestimated the scale and the challenge of coronavirus. The inquiry’s…
The monthly AI or real quiz: December 2023
From footballers to singers to movie stars, this month’s AI or real quiz is sure to leaving you scratching your head! Challenge yourself to get full marks in our latest AI or real quiz and see how you do at spotting pictures that have been created using artificial intelligence. And don’t forget, do your own…
Threads: Meta’s rival to Elon Musk’s X launches in EU
The platform is released five months after it debuted in the UK, US and other parts of the world.
Unite Here Local 11 reaches deal with Beverly Wilshire, strikes Sheraton near Disneyland
Unite Here Local 11 has reached a tentative agreement with a 10th hotel, marking continued momentum in the contract campaign it began earlier this year. The deal with the Beverly Wilshire was reached days after the union nailed down agreements with two other major Beverly Hills hotels, the Beverly Hilton and the Waldorf Astoria. It…
Column: How the retail lobby sold a $45-billion whopper about organized shoplifting
If you’re making a list of big news stories of 2023, here’s one you might want to check twice: The surge in “organized retail crime,” or gang shoplifting. I’ve written before about the news media’s fixation on this phenomenon despite the unreliability of retailers’ claims about it, and especially when compared with the much more…
A weirdly candid interview with Elon Musk’s new AI chatbot, about Elon Musk
Fickle bosses can be tough. Doubly so when they’re also the richest person on the planet. So when Elon Musk’s newest underling officially started on the job December 8, The Times was eager to hear its take on the polarizing tech mogul. Enter: Grok. An artificial intelligence chatbot that Musk recently launched on X, the…
How OnlyFans millionaires live and spend in L.A.
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