Technology editor @LiveScience. NCTJ-qualified @NewsAssociates. Irony enthusiast. Sarcasm specialist. Views own. Pitches: keumars.afifi-sabet@futurenet.com
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Galaxy-brain level mental gymnastics at play here. How do you both-sides a school bombing? No idea. But we are trying our best here, cut us some slack.
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Huge thanks to @ShawnLayden @Tony_Gowland @tha_rami @Olifiers @grmcall @jesseschell and all the other awesome speakers I haven't found on Twitter (yet), plus our wonderful freelancers @gamesbizuk @Keumars and Vikki
Really proud of what the team put together in our GI Sprint series. Huge thanks to all our guest speakers, and the freelancers who helped compile their top tips
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Wish the parents would pay for me to have sky i'n my room, freeview i's soul destroying at this time of night
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Welcome #PitchYaGame to The Tūn-Gāst of Oakshaw – a top-down 2D pixel art horror RPG-lite set in a creepy English town in the 1700s. Amid the historic “gin craze”, you must vanquish the violent ghost that haunts Oakshaw and uncover the secrets of its residents. More details soon.
The most boring team in world football that cheated its way to dominating the Premier League. If it wasn't for the Qatari state and financial misconduct Manchester City would be in a League One relegation battle.
Man City at the business end of the Premier League season:
📅 2019:
14 consecutive wins to win the league with 98 points
📅 2022:
Unbeaten in last 12 games
📅 2023:
12-game win streak to lift the title
📅 2024:
Currently on a 19-game unbeaten run
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35 years after sending a memo about this wacky WWW idea he had, here's what @timberners_lee is up to today. My first article for @LiveScience and hopefully not the last!
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This is journalistic vandalism. Newsnight causes lots of problems for the powerful and the government in particular. Hmm.
A tragedy. For decades Newsnight has set the agenda with brilliant investigations and coverage made possible by having a dedicated team of reporters and ample running time. A huge loss to viewers. A boon to anyone in power who feared being exposed bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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Everything that "hasn't worked" with VAR so far has been human error. There's barely anything wrong with the technology itself being used.
All the use of video technology has done is give incompetent referees more opportunities to demonstrate their incompetence.
We tried it. It hasn't worked.
The use/implementation of video technology is damaging football & the experience of watching it. Officials are suffering too.
And there is no magic formula out there that will change this pattern.
It doesn't suit this sport. Concede defeat.
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All signs point to something ontologically dark about to unfold in the Middle East. Hamas attacks and subsequent outbreak of war just the start. Does the right to self defence grant Netanyahu license to target civilian populations? This rationale suggests yes.
Israeli ambassador to the UK cites the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 (deliberate aerial incineration of civilian population centers by US and UK) as precedent for what Israel is about to do in Gaza
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Horrific violence that violates fundamental norms of humanity has claimed the lives of over 1,200 in Israel and 1,400 Palestinians, including 447 children.
The way that war is conducted matters. The IRC is calling on the international community to ensure the following: (1/8)
Okay so the Snake Eater remake might actually force me to cave in and grab a PS5. If they ditch the ladder, we riot. #playstationshowcase2023
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I cannot actually believe this isn't a parody but some lawmakers in America actually want to legalise child labour.
BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today.
The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol.
The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.
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