Helplines of gambling addiction recovery groups have been ringing with a new kind of caller: day traders. The rise of mobile brokerage applications outfitted with prompts, animations, rewards and digital flourishes have brought the feel of investing platforms closer to online sports betting and gambling. “The user experience is converging and the line between gambling…
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Damning testimony from a former Facebook employee has reignited bipartisan support for reining in the tech sector, with members of the US Congress vowing to tighten rules for big companies. Senior members of the Senate commerce committee said they were looking at a range of legislation to crack down on Facebook and other big Silicon…
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2 promo teases Jadis’ journey with the CRM. Pollyanna McIntosh first played the mysterious zombie apocalypse survivor Jadis in season 7 of The Walking Dead. At first Jadis seemed like just another random survivor leading yet another random community in the Walking Dead universe. But her larger role in…
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As cute as they are, Apple Memoji have existed simply as floating heads for many years, but iPhone owners do have the opportunity to dress them after upgrading to iOS 15. This provides another way for users to express their style by personalizing the look even more. Since the new Memoji have bodies, or at least torsos,…
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As cute as they are, Apple Memoji have existed simply as floating heads for many years, but iPhone owners do have the opportunity to dress them after upgrading to iOS 15. This provides another way for users to express their style by personalizing the look even more. Since the new Memoji have bodies, or at least torsos,…
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This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Video games and sports executive Peter Moore has gone back and forth between real and fantasy sports throughout his long career. From starting out as a PE teacher and soccer coach, he…
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Facebook has hidden vital information about the way it works from the public and governments around the world in an attempt to avoid being regulated more strictly, a whistleblower will tell Congress on Tuesday. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, will accuse the company of covering up its own research into how its products affect…
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Ethereum is a blockchain platform born in 2014 that enables programmers to build decentralized ledger applications (DApps). Confusingly there is both a native currency/token “ether,” only for transactions on the platform, and an investable asset called ETH. The Ethereum 2.0 upgrade began many years ago and got some reality with Beacon Chain in December 2020, existing alongside…
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Frances Haugen, a Facebook whistleblower whose revelations have pitched the social network into its biggest crisis since the Cambridge Analytica furore, will make her first appearance before US senators in Washington on Tuesday. The hearing comes after she unmasked herself on US television on Sunday night as the source who provided thousands of pages of…
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How to become a bitcoin millionaire” is a common theme of videos on TikTok, the app built by Beijing-based company ByteDance. In clip after clip, young influencers teach others how to follow in their footsteps, showing off lifestyles funded by crypto wealth. Yet the experience when I open ByteDance’s Chinese sister app, Douyin, is a…
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