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Video game performers could be on strike for a full year, says union’s chief negotiator | Science & Tech News
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Video game performers could be on strike for “a full year” over artificial intelligence (AI), the union representing striking workers in the US has told Sky News. More than 2,500 performers working for blockbuster video game studios like Activision, EA, Warner Bros. Games and Blindlight have been on strike in the US since 26 July.…
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Video game performers are on strike – what you need to know | Science & Tech News
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Video game performers are on strike in the US because of artificial intelligence (AI). The union representing the performers called the strike after discussions about a wide-reaching contract that could protect performers broke down. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) said the new contract would stop top games studios like…
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‘Sudden stratospheric warming’ forecast to hit northern Europe in January – but experts unsure where it will strike | UK News
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The UK could find itself in the deep freeze in January due to a change in wind patterns high up in the atmosphere – the same phenomenon that blew in the bitterly cold Beast from the East in 2018. However, forecasters are warning it is too soon to tell where in Europe the cold weather…
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Amazon Black Friday strike: Workers in Coventry to walk out as part of international action against retailer | Business News
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Amazon workers in the UK are to go on strike today to coincide with Black Friday – one of the company’s busiest shopping days of the year. More than 1,000 staff at the firm’s warehouse in Coventry are expected to take part in the walkout, the GMB union said, amid a long-running dispute over pay…
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Chelyabinsk meteor: Ten years on from ‘wake-up call’, how safe are we from a potentially catastrophic strike? | Science & Tech News
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It wasn’t quite the day the Earth stood still, but those who witnessed a fiery asteroid briefly outshine the sun as it soared towards the Russian city of Chelyabinsk will almost certainly never forget it. Comparable to the size of a house and travelling at a scintillating 11 miles per second, what was quickly dubbed…
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Amazon strike: First formal walkout on British soil begins today | Business News
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Darren Westwood knows how to stick up for himself. As a kid, he was bullied in the playground and beaten up in his local town centre. Now he doesn’t take stick from anyone, no matter how big or strong they appear, even if they happen to be one of the biggest companies in the world.…
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Amazon workers vote to strike at a UK depot for the first time | Business News
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Amazon workers at a UK depot have voted to strike for the first time. Employees at the warehouse in Coventry will walk out in the new year over what the GMB union said was a pay offer increase of 50p an hour. It comes after more than 98% of workers voted to strike on a…
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Asteroid strike triggered 250-metre mega-tsunami on Mars, scientists believe | Science & Tech News
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A mega-tsunami on Mars could have been triggered by an asteroid strike similar to the devastating blow that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The giant wave, measuring up to 250 metres in height, was created about 3.4 billion years ago by the impact of an asteroid or comet in a shallow ocean…
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40,000 BT and Openreach workers in first national telecoms strike since 1987 | Business News
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Around 40,000 BT and Openreach workers have walked off the job in the first national telecoms strike since 1987. Hundreds of picket lines have been set up across the UK, according to the Communication Workers Union (CWU). It is the first of two strikes, with another being held on Monday, after members of the union…