Category: politics
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Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
Jonathan Watts and Jillian Ambrose at The Guardian reporting on this report from Oxfam: Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single…
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PMG: “The Games Industry Must Not Stay Silent on Palestine”
People Make Games has posted this video about the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government. YouTube won’t let this video be embedded, but you can click on the link above or here to see it.
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Ukrainian Government Calls for Video Game Sanctions on Russia & Belarus
The invasion of Ukraine has led to the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine & Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (that’s one person, Mykhailo Fedorov) requesting via Twitter that Microsoft’s Xbox division, and Sony’s PlayStation division, in addition to “all game development companies” and “esports platforms”, to temporarily block all games from accounts in Russia…
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Microsoft Outfits Soldiers for AR Murder With Hololens
Lucas Matney writing for Tech Crunch: Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army with tens of thousands of augmented reality headsets based on the company’s HoloLens tech. This contract could be worth as much as $21.88 billion over 10 years, the company says. Microsoft will be fulfilling…