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What happens when an online game dies?

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Financial Times 2 place · 07/04/2026 00:00 EDT

Games such as ‘Destiny 2’ are more than entertainment products. They are social spaces where friendships, identities and rituals are built Read more ›

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Apple Car executive defects to Ford in blow to automotive ambitions

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Financial Times · 09/07/2021 17:54 EDT

Hiring Doug Field seen as coup for US carmaker and setback for iPhone manufacturer Read more ›

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Ford hires Apple tech executive Doug Field

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Financial Times · 09/07/2021 15:24 EDT

Move potentially spells the end of iPhone maker’s car project Read more ›

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Silicon Valley’s billionaires want to hack the ageing process

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Financial Times · 09/07/2021 11:22 EDT

What do you buy if you already have everything? Eternal youth, apparently Read more ›

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Robot shopping companions prove popular with the elderly in UK trial

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Financial Times · 09/07/2021 10:38 EDT

Participants found to go out walking more frequently with device carrying their bags Read more ›

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Tetris — how a game of logic took over our minds

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Financial Times · 09/07/2021 07:18 EDT

From its troubled Soviet origins, the game became world famous by creating order from chaos Read more ›

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Inside Sberbank’s push to become Russia’s Amazon

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Financial Times · 09/07/2021 00:00 EDT

State-owned giant wants to use huge funding base to offer everything from food delivery to streaming entertainment Read more ›

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UK to ask G7 for privacy overhaul targeting online tracking requests

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Financial Times · 09/06/2021 19:02 EDT

Regulator suggests simplifying choices to end repeated ‘cookie’ pop-ups from websites seeking user consent Read more ›

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Keeping up with Kardashians on crypto

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Financial Times · 09/06/2021 13:38 EDT

Didi rival state-funded, Amazon roll-up merchants, Theranos blood brothers Read more ›

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Chinese government funds invest in ride-hailing rival to under-pressure Didi

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Financial Times 2 place · 09/06/2021 08:40 EDT

Cao Cao Mobility raises Rmb3.8bn as it tries to take advantage of crackdown on larger competitor Read more ›

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Auto chip giant says Covid outbreaks will become ‘business as usual’

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Financial Times 2 place · 09/05/2021 21:01 EDT

Pandemic’s resurgence poses challenge for Renesas’s $6bn acquisition of Apple supplier Dialog Read more ›

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Brazil suspends beef exports to China after cases of mad cow disease

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Financial Times 1 place · 09/05/2021 16:14 EDT

World’s biggest producer says no risk to humans after confirming ‘atypical’ incidents in two states Read more ›

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Why it’s mad to use an algorithm to hire a person

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Financial Times 2 place · 09/04/2021 23:00 EDT

The tale of one boss who thought Uber ratings were the answer is instructive Read more ›

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Silicon Valley still believes in easy blood tests despite Theranos scandal

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Financial Times 3 place · 09/04/2021 22:04 EDT

Investors have poured more than $200m into developing a small device in the past year alone Read more ›

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China’s video game laws risk being a turn-off for the next generation

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Financial Times · 09/04/2021 00:00 EDT

Analysts warn rules on the hours teenagers can play will hit future revenues at Tencent and NetEase Read more ›

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Avatar overload: my trip through the Burning Man metaverse

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Financial Times 3 place · 09/04/2021 00:00 EDT

Attending the famous desert festival virtually offers flights of fancy, high-tech fantasies — and very real nausea Read more ›

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Amazon ‘roll-up’ businesses raise billions in fight for ascendancy

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Financial Times 1 place · 09/03/2021 16:00 EDT

Ecommerce aggregators swoop for independent merchants even as online shopping slows Read more ›

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China’s children are not the only ones addicted to video games

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Financial Times 1 place · 09/03/2021 15:00 EDT

All of us should worry about the control gaming and social media companies exert Read more ›

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Apple delays child abuse detection system after backlash

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Financial Times 3 place · 09/03/2021 14:25 EDT

iPhone maker says it will take time to ‘collect input’ and ‘make improvements’ Read more ›

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Apple’s Labor Day delays

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Financial Times · 09/03/2021 14:08 EDT

Galactic fleet grounded, Buy Now, Pay Never? Philips Hue + Spotify Read more ›

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Robinhood: trading app’s interest in investor communications could cross wires

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Financial Times · 09/03/2021 13:41 EDT

The potential launch of an in-house shareholder service could be lucrative but might also create a conflict of interest Read more ›

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