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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Mark Blunden and Rachelle Abbott

OPINION - Green light for London’s VR Squid Game: Tech and Science Daily podcast

Squid Game fans can pay up to £65-a-time to experience a VR version of the hit Netflix survival competition show in London.

The Korean smash has been envisioned as a virtual reality team game by the company Sandbox VR at a venue close to the British Museum.

Evening Standard arts and culture writer Vicky Jessop previews the Squid Game Virtuals player experience, which includes body-tracking and haptic feedback

Tens of thousands of British women are dying from preventable cancers each year, according to a report by the National Cancer Institute’s Centre for Global Health on gender inequalities.

An international team of academics found six out of these 10 premature of these deaths can be averted through prevention and earlier diagnoses.

It’s already got its own custom spies’ Wikipedia, and now the CIA plans to launch its own ChatGPT-style AI tool to help sift through vast troves of data for clues to aid investigations.

Agency officials say the tool will help analysts be more quickly able to crunch open-source raw intelligence as they battle the emergence of China’s growing digital capabilities.

A King’s College London study suggests a quarter of people lose the benefit of healthy eating at meal times by snacking on unhealthy foods, raising the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Researchers examined the diets of 854 people and say choosing bad snacks appeared to impact on body mass index and levels of fat and sugar in the blood.

Plus, Nasa’s tow-and-crash plan for aging ISS, Facebook’s Meta £149 million London building lease buyout, the paleoartist bringing neanderthals back to life and oldest Iron Age gold coin hoard.

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