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Lisa Jackson is heading up Apple’s roadmap to zero climate by 2030
Reporting the most profitable quarter for any corporation ever, Apple has plotted a roadmap to achieving climate neutrality by 2030. Lisa Jackson is the driving force behind that mission. Growing up in 70s New Orleans, a US hotspot for petrochemical facilities, Lisa Jackson witnessed first-hand the adverse effects of pollution and the disparity it brings to different communities. Today, as the Vice President of Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives at...
Metacritic combats game ‘review bombing’ with 36-hour delays to user scores
Metacritic, widely renowned as the ultimate review aggregator, is introducing 36-hour delays to user scores on new games in an effort to combat ‘review bombing.’ Metacritic is tightening its defence against premature user scores by implementing 36-hour delays to all new games on its platform. With a view to maintaining its status as the most authentic review aggregator on the web, this precaution aims to prevent players from hastily throwing...
KFC is rolling out lab-produced chicken nuggets
As part of its ‘Meat of the Future’ campaign, KFC is developing laboratory-produced chicken nuggets to roll out in 2020. As the food industry vies for a more regenerative and sustainable future, fast food chains are being pressured to meet growing demands for animal alternatives. On that front, KFC are plotting something potentially ground-breaking for 2020. The fried chicken mecca is opening its chest of secret ingredients and seasonings to a...
Banksy takes to the London Underground with Covid-themed graffiti
Enigmatic British artist Banksy has taken to the London Underground to create a satirical piece about Covid-19. Commuters on London’s Circle Line were shocked on Tuesday to see a man clad in Covid clean-up gear graffitiing all over one of the carriage interiors. Little did they know they had borne witness (hopefully at a two-meter distance) to Britain’s vigilante street artist Banksy at work. Once again, Banksy has chosen to explore...
Is TikTok really an elaborate façade for Chinese spyware?
Cyber-experts are claiming that 2020’s number one app is a shady front for Chinese spyware and mass censorship. Suggestions that ByteDance’s ‘innocuous’ short-bite video app TikTok has all the makings of a totalitarian plot hatched by the Chinese government are looking more plausible by the day. Suffice to say, people are freaked. Months of bad publicity Two months ago, an anonymous software engineer with 15 years of experience claimed he had successfully reverse-engineered TikTok. Within its inner workings, he pointed to...
Clown protests take Read Dead Online by storm
It’s been close to a year since Rockstar meaningfully expanded Red Dead Redemption 2, and players have started populating entire servers with clowns in protest. All is not well in the digital wild west. It’s been seven months since Red Dead Online’s ‘Moonshiners’ expansion dropped, and players are growing frustrated at the game’s lack of longevity. Rockstar revealed at the PlayStation 5 expo that it is currently gearing up to bring...
Chinese face-tracking tech bans foreigners from live streaming
A global inquest into TikTok has done little to deter China from pushing stricter censorship on its own soil. Official documents from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance have confirmed rumours that the viral video app is constantly running facial recognition technology to monitor and censor content on Douyin – China’s version of the platform. Douyin may appear innocuous on the surface, but Chinese streamers are subject to an intrusive regime of automated...
Challenger banks hit the spot with Gen Z
Like everything else with Gen Z, it appears the future of banking is entirely digital. But what exactly are challenger banks, and why are they so popular? There’s little doubt that the future of banking is headed towards a complete digital revamp akin to the shift in takeaway services like Just Eat and Deliveroo. A new wave of start-up companies have grown from quirky USPs into mega conglomerates over the...
Reddit must persist with alt-right purge despite ‘free speech’ concerns
Media efforts to combat hate is pressuring user-based platforms like Reddit and MeWe to follow suit, and rightly so. Since the 18th century we have used boycotting as a political weapon for good. In 1791 some 300,000 people abstained from buying any goods produced by slaves in the West Indies, demonstrating for the first time the undeniable influence of consumer action in bringing about tangible change. Today, with social media being...
NASA set to return to Mars with new rover ‘Perseverance’
Having bid farewell to the Mars rover in 2019, NASA is revisiting the Red Planet in 2021 with its most sophisticated vehicle to date, ‘Perseverance’. America’s chief space agency is set to embark on a new adventure to Mount Sharp, a huge summit on Mars, and the expedition will be carried out by a new and improved iteration of the 2019 rover called Perseverance. Dubbed the new rover’s ‘summer road trip’...