Hints and tips:
...When I told a friend about my screen-free weekend (some might call it showing off), she was unimpressed: “Well my friend switches his SIM card into a ‘brick phone’ every single weekend,” she told me....
...It is not science fiction: last year the UK security services stripped down a government car because data was emanating through its “e-sim” to China....
...I represented some of the greatest fashion photographers, stylists and art directors – Ellen von Unwerth, Mario Sorrenti, David Sims – and am still very close to many of them....
...“We’d be hoping to see the strategy consider a mandatory levy on social media and tech companies to pay for the police response to fraud — what I’d liken to a ‘polluter pays’ principle,” she added....
...“I’d like to concentrate on [Cosmoss] and not have to do the modelling any more,” she says....
...So that has knocked about, I’d say, between £130-£150 off my annual bills....
...Coming out of a break-up I thought I’d try a new venture, meet a stranger. So I let him paint me – and it turned into quite a cool friendship.”...
...I’d work with the elephants because I’d enjoy giving them a hug from time to time. I’ve recently rediscovered my collection of vinyl....
...Though you’d have to be sloshed to miss one major intervention: a boldly colourful work by British artist Phyllida Barlow consisting of handpainted paper, cut and collaged onto the ceiling....
...“With Gem X’s global profile, it is well known for connecting jewellery enthusiasts from all over the world,” says Simone Stunz, TEFAF programming manager....
...Iran is 1-1.2mn b/d of this and Venezuela 400,000 to 500,000 b/d....
...“That’s the future of entertainment,” she said of the show I’d just seen, her face all mystic and awestruck. “I guess so,” I replied as I handed over my card....
...She’d mentioned an upcoming sale and I’d taken note, congratulating myself on what I thought was my own private discovery....
...Indigenous players in the Australian Football League alleged that they had their SIM cards removed from their mobile phones to cut them off from their families....
...Art and Race Matters, co-curated with Lowery Stokes Sims and organised by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, confronts these paradoxes head on, especially in the excellent catalogue....
...There is a registration centre for Ukrainian nationals near Brussels’ Atomium monument, for which they can book appointments online, where they are given food and SIM cards and housing is easily arranged...
...Hong Kong-based Sim-Plex Design Studio builds trapdoor-style compartments that hide cupboards, tables and extra bedrooms....
...Charities are already distributing free Sim cards for people who have a phone, but cannot afford the data costs of applying for benefits online....
...The gangs use technological shields to evade the authorities, cycling through sim cards and websites to evade detection....
...And, again, who’d have thought it? Lyon is more economically productive than Leeds....
...Truphone makes embedded SIM cards that allow users to avoid roaming charges....
...But it was also games like The Sims, which was a life simulator. What I saw then was something I never thought I’d see, which is that people would imprint their lives into that world....
...But what rights should our simulated avatars, or sims, enjoy? What happens if, as Chalmers believes is possible, these sims acquire consciousness?...
...Forget the metaverse: those of us who grew up on The Sims have embraced the “miniverse”, a more soothing and tactile artificial reality....
...D-Fend Solutions, a company started by Israeli cyber experts, executes a cyber takeover of the target drone and then safely lands it....
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