Ali Rees

2 months ago | brignews.com | Ali Rees

What are you, queer? It’s a funny little word, queer. When I was growing up, my first encounters with the word ‘queer’ were entirely negative – teenagers trying to hurt deliberately but without reason. I didn’t properly come out as not straight until I left home and my small town at 18. I didn’t come out as gender-non-conforming until sometime in my late twenties. For a long time, I searched for the words that worked for me.

2 months ago | startmenu.co.uk | Ali Rees

I’ve got a confession: I sometimes put off playing sequels to games I love for fear that they won’t live up to my expectations or somehow do something so egregious as to take away from the experience I had with the previous game. So it was with trepidation that I launched Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector. Luckily for me, that apprehension was misplaced and CS2 manages to expand on the first game both in its mechanics and its narrative to a huge degree of success.

Jan 17, 2025 | readwrite.com | Ali Rees

Peter Kyle, the UK’s Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, has said in an interview that fears around children using generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT for their homework are similar to fears that arose after the invention of the calculator. Kyle was asked during an interview with the BBC on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg whether he thought it was okay for a child to use generative AI like ChatGPT to do their homework.

Jan 17, 2025 | readwrite.com | Ali Rees

The first two episodes of Severance season two are now available on Apple TV+, and viewers around the world are tuning in to see what exactly Mark (Adam Scott) and his colleagues will get up to next in the hit dystopian thriller. Lauded as excellent and receiving a ‘perfect’ score on Rotten Tomatoes from pre-launch reviews, critics broadly seem to think the second season is handily keeping up with the precedent for excellence set by the first.

Jan 17, 2025 | readwrite.com | Ali Rees

Sevilla defender Kike Salas, has been arrested over accusations that he intentionally received yellow cards during the 2023-24  La Liga season. Spanish police suspect the Spainard and two friends are involved in a betting scandal around yellow cards. They have reportedly made around 10,000 euros across thirty bets on the player getting booked. The defender was shown the yellow card in 10 league games for Sevilla across the season.