Richard Dexter sentenced to four-and-a-half years for duping victim into sending payments after meeting via dating appA “charming” fraudster who conned a millionaire he met on Tinder into handing him almost £150,000 has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.Richard Dexter, 38, boasted to his victim, Amrita Sebastian, that he was worth almost £7m, owned private jets, was involved in Hollywood studios and had bought a hot air balloon on a whim. Continue reading...

Regulators sound alarm over function that can play sounds over external speaker and obscure warnings for pedestriansTesla is recalling nearly 579,000 vehicles in the US because a “Boombox” function can play sounds over an external speaker and obscure audible warnings for pedestrians.The recall is the fourth made public in the last two weeks as US safety regulators increase scrutiny of the nation’s largest electric vehicle maker. In two of the recalls, Tesla made decisions that violate federal motor vehicle safety standards, while the others are software errors. Continue reading...

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Heather Morgan, arrested on suspicion of laundering cryptocurrency worth billions, has a second life as performer with ‘more pizzazz than Genghis Khan’A woman accused of laundering billions of dollars in stolen cryptocurrency alongside her husband may end up becoming better known for her excruciating music career as a self-styled “raunchy rapper” called Razzlekhan.Heather Morgan was arrested along with her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, in Manhattan on Tuesday over their alleged involvement in laundering bitcoin stolen in a 2016 hack of the virtual currency exchange Bitfinex. They are not accused of involvement in the hack itself but face charges of conspiring to commit money laundering as well as to defraud the United States. Continue reading...

The company beat estimates to report a revenue of $5.8bn for the fourth quarter as Uber Eats posted an adjusted profit of $25mUber’s food delivery service Uber Eats has turned profitable for the first time, the company said on Wednesday, in an earnings report that revealed it may be bouncing back after a rough run during lockdown.Shares rose 6.8% in after-hours trading after the company’s report showed $5.8bn in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2021, beating estimates of $5.36bn. It said demand for its ride-hailing service was again approaching pre-pandemic levels. Continue reading...

The subpoena was issued on 16 November after Musk polled his Twitter followers on whether he should sell 10% of his sharesTesla said on Monday it received a subpoena from the US securities regulator related to a settlement that required tweets from its chief executive, Elon Musk, on material information to be vetted.The subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was issued on 16 November, some 10 days after Musk asked his Twitter followers if he should sell 10% of his stake in the company, triggering a stock selloff. Continue reading...

Top-of-the-line sports watch goes anywhere and tracks anything, with longer battery life, better GPS, stamina and a touchscreenGarmin’s latest top-of-the-line Fenix 7 track-it-all adventure smartwatch introduces a number of new features, better GPS, longer battery life and improved tech – as well as a touchscreen to go with its buttons.Starting at £599 ($699.99/A$1,049), it can hit £1,000 or more if you pick the largest, most fancy version. But the new luxury device does give us a preview on what the firm’s cheaper sports watches may feature later in the year. Continue reading...

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Hacking of emails at Murdoch company raises fears for safety of journalists’ confidential sourcesJournalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have had their email accounts hacked in what the company believes was an espionage operation linked to China, raising fears for the safety of confidential sources.The cyber-attack affected a limited number of individuals working for outlets including News UK – the publisher of the Times and the Sun – as well as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. Continue reading...

Streaming firm is facing a cocktail of crises, from culture wars to competition concernsHe was supposed to be Spotify’s biggest acquisition, one who would transform the music streaming company into a one-stop shop for all kinds of online audio.But controversy over “misinformation” on Joe Rogan’s podcast precipitated a hellish week for the Swedish firm as high-profile boycotts, a social media backlash and a share price drop challenged the viability of its meteoric growth. Continue reading...

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The e-commerce giant announced gains of more than $14bn last holiday season in its latest earnings reportAmazon’s profits surged to $14.32bn in a fourth quarter marked by record holiday sales, the company said in its earnings report on Thursday, while also announcing an increase in the price of Amazon Prime membership to help compensate for rising operating costs.In the three months ending in December 2021, sales for the e-commerce giant were up 24% from a sluggish third quarter to $137.4bn. Sales are also up 9% year-over-year from the same period in 2020. Continue reading...

Mark Zuckerberg says company faces tough competition for attention from rivals such as TikTok• Analysis: why the shares are in freefall Facebook shares fell 25% on Thursday – wiping over $200bn (£147bn) off its value – after the company reported its first ever drop in daily user numbers.The huge collapse – more than value of McDonald’s – came after Mark Zuckerberg’s newly rebranded social media empire, Meta, said daily active user numbers at its main app – a key growth target for investors – fell to 1.929 billion in the three months to December, from 1.93 billion in the previous quarter. Continue reading...

Joyful and innocuously addictive, the online word game harks back to a more innocent age. The new owners must respect its spiritSmart daily brain tease works magic, makes eager crowd happy, later turns truly viral – until game’s adept maker earns great money (ample Times bucks). Yes, it is sometimes hard not to think entirely in five-letter words after an encounter with Wordle, the online game that requires participants to guess a five-letter word in six tries. It was quietly launched last October by Josh Wardle, a Welsh, Brooklyn-based software engineer who created it for the amusement of his partner.In November, its users numbered a few hundred. Now, they are in the millions. Mr Wardle has sold the game to the New York Times for a seven-figure sum – having previously said that he felt somewhat overwhelmed by the responsibility to the game’s fans to keep the site running perfectly. Continue reading...

Why is a 50-year-old comedian on TikTok? Who knows, but at least the TikToks are funnyThe 10 funniest things I have ever seen on the internet? Like, ever? How about the last 10 things I liked on TikTok? Cool. Why has a 50-year-old got a TikTok account?Before you call the authorities, we made a kids’ show back in 2006 and most of the fans had no idea who the Umbilical Brothers were. But now we have more than 600,000 20-year-old college students captured and addicted. OK … I’m calling the authorities. Continue reading...

Struggling to hit the right notes over email and chat? Perhaps you need the ‘sarcasm converter’Who am I when I’m behind a screen?It’s a question we face more and more as the pandemic minimizes face-to-face contact, forcing even more workplace communication to take place over email and messaging apps. Continue reading...

There are plenty of streaming options available for music and podcasts – or you could listen the old-fashioned wayThe recent decision by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to pull their music off Spotify amid a backlash over Joe Rogan’s podcast has put fans of the folk icons in an awkward position – and reminded us that music can find a home beyond the now ubiquitous Spotify playlist.Rogan, who has been accused of spreading Covid-19 misinformation through his wildly popular podcast, has since promised to “try harder”, while Spotify has said it will direct listeners toward facts about the pandemic. But for some, it might be too little too late, especially if other artists follow in the boycott. Continue reading...

Radlandia, the skating game’s exuberant and diverse world, was created during the pandemic as a happier place to which its developers could escapeIn a skate park under the arches near London Bridge, a couple of game developers called John Ribbins and Simon Bennett are messing around in a half-pipe. (I do not join in – sadly the immense skills that I have built up over 20 years of playing skating games do not in any way translate into real life.) In 2014, their studio Roll7 released a fondly remembered and notoriously tricky skateboarding game called OlliOlli – an experience that prompted them, both lapsed skaters who were obsessive about it in their teens, to get back out on the streets in real life. They had about 10 people working with them back then; now they’re directors of a studio of 80.I’d spent a few days playing Roll7’s latest game, OlliOlli World – an exuberant and characterful tribute to skateboarding, with wild levels full of rails and walls to grind and weird characters such as sentient trees and buff seagulls pottering around in the background. The art, a mix between the kind of mural you might find in a London skate park and the strange but cutesy cartoonish vibe of something like Adventure Time, contrasts with an extremely chill soundtrack that soothes your nerves as you try to pull off awesome chains of tricks. Continue reading...

Host Jesse Watters wasted no time in painting the Reddit thread’s moderator as a clumsy, ‘lazy’ caricatureIn 2013, the subreddit r/antiwork was born. “Unemployment for all, not just the rich!” read its tagline. America was experiencing a mood change at that time. Occupy: The Movie had just hit theaters, lodging the eponymous movement in the national consciousness; the Socialist Alternative party had just won its first ever seat on Seattle’s city council; and Senator Bernie Sanders, the longtime independent from Vermont and self-described “democratic socialist” was considering a presidential run.Born of the moment, r/antiwork offered a space where people could envision a life free from work – or at least, too much of it. Anchored by Marxist philosophy, people used it to commiserate, share memes and trade war stories about the horrors of modern-day working in America. Then the pandemic hit, laying bare inequities long faced by lower-wage workers, particularly in the United States. The subreddit exploded. Screenshots of resignation texts to bosses went viral – “Eat. My. Ass.” read one memorable text, in response to a boss who had warned against such an “impulsive decision”. In December, users bombarded a Kellogg’s application site that had been launched to replace 1,400 striking users with fake applications. As media reported on the “Great Resignation” in the wake of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report that 4.5 million Americans left their jobs in November 2021, an all-time high, r/antiwork inched closer to the mainstream. Continue reading...

Bungie developed Destiny and Halo while sale comes after Microsoft’s $69bn acquisition of Activision BlizzardSony has agreed to buy the video game maker Bungie for $3.6bn, the latest in a series of takeovers in the video game industry.Washington state-based Bungie developed hit first-person shooter video game Destiny and Halo, a series that has provided some of the biggest ever hits for rival Microsoft’s Xbox system. Bungie was acquired by Microsoft in 2000 and split from Microsoft in 2007. Halo ​​is now managed by Microsoft-owned 343 Industries. Continue reading...

In DM exchange Tesla boss offers $5,000 for takedown but 19-year-old replies: ‘Any chance to up that to $50K?’A row has broken out between the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, and a 19-year-old student and aviation enthusiast from Florida.Jack Sweeney created the Twitter bot @ElonJet, which tracks Musk’s Gulfstream private jet and posts real-time updates of its location. Continue reading...

My biggest distraction from my work, family and friends – and yet I can’t pull away, even when my own research says I shouldLike most humans, I want intimacy. But as a developmental psychologist, I consider intimacy a fundamental human need. Sharing feelings, embraces, intellectual conversations, sex – these intimate moments are often the touchstones of a rich human experience. Yet millions of people worldwide are isolated and lonely, woefully lacking in the meaningful and diverse social experiences that help support emotional and physical health.Teens are spending most of their waking hours online, eschewing in-person gatherings for online chats, games and Netflix. And even those of us with socially rich networks sometimes long for flashes of intimacy, like hugs from friends or sex with lovers, amid the doldrum of our daily lives. Continue reading...

Streaming platform publishes rules for creators and announces plan to tackle misinformation, including ‘content advisories’Spotify is adding a message that will direct listeners to correct Covid-19 information as controversy over misinformation shared on Joe Rogan’s podcast continues to grow, with the streamer losing billions in market value and more musicians withdrawing their music.On Sunday, the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, released an official statement setting out the streaming platform’s plan to tackle misinformation. New content advisories will direct listeners of any podcast that discusses coronavirus to a dedicated website that “provides easy access to data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world, as well as links to trusted sources”. Continue reading...

The cryptocurrency consumes more energy than Norway. As countries consider copying China’s ban, experts disagree on whether a greener version is possibleWhen bitcoin mining company Bit Digital started shipping its energy-intensive computers out of China in early 2021, eyebrows were raised. “A lot of people thought we were being overly paranoid,” says chief strategy officer Sam Tabar, who helped relocate all of the company’s machines to the US and Canada.But the company’s paranoia paid off. China’s bitcoin mining ban last summer, driven partly by environmental concerns, sent the industry spinning into chaos. The announcement sparked a fire sale of the computers used to power bitcoin, with mining companies scrambling to ship more than 2m of the machines out of China. They arrived by the crateload in countries like the US, Russia and Kazakhstan. Continue reading...

Tang Mingfang is willing to risk reprisals to clear his name over Foxconn revelations – and to get backing from Jeff BezosA whistleblower who exposed illegal working conditions in a factory making Amazon’s Alexa devices says he was tortured before being jailed by Chinese authorities.Tang Mingfang, 43, was jailed after he revealed how the Foxconn factory in the southern Chinese city of Hengyang used schoolchildren working illegally long hours to manufacture Amazon’s popular Echo, Echo Dot and Kindle devices. Continue reading...

Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley and the best of Capitol Hill and wants to help. His aims are ambitious, his book necessaryJust on the evidence of his new book, Ro Khanna is one of the broadest, brightest and best-educated legislators on Capitol Hill. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Yale Law School who represents Silicon Valley, he is by far the most tech-savvy member of Congress.At this very dark moment for American democracy, this remarkable son of Indian immigrants writes with the optimism and idealism of a first-generation American who still marvels at the opportunities he has had. Continue reading...

This week’s results may presage a future of choosier shoppers, resurgent competitors and tougher regulationIt’s someone’s nightmare job: Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’s newspaper, the Washington Post, is seeking a special correspondent just to cover the billionaire’s online shopping and web services titan.Having your own chronicler could be seen as the ultimate in billionaire egotism, but we are all close Amazon watchers now. Continue reading...

The World Press Photo award winner on an image taken in unfamiliar territoryShooting with an iPhone, says French photographer Frédéric Noy, is like “mild psychotherapy. Sometimes, you get stuck. Taking a few pictures with an iPhone is like a liberation. A reset, a moment of reflection. You see things differently.”Noy arrived in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, mid-pandemic, after many years in Africa, where he had documented the daily lives of persecuted LGBTQ+ Ugandans; he had won World Press Photo and Visa d’Or awards for his work on the environmental disaster in Lake Victoria. “I wanted to go somewhere as distant and as different as possible,” he says. “Kazakhstan was the last country to leave the USSR, and it’s still constructing its identity. That’s what interested me. All I knew about it was cliche.” Continue reading...

The digital marketplace for NFTs grew to an estimated $22bn last year but companies face challenges monitoring stolen artWhen Lois van Baarle, a Dutch artist, scoured the biggest NFT marketplace for her name late last year, she found more than 100 pieces of her art for sale. None of them had been put up by her.Van Baarle is a popular digital artist, with millions of followers on social media. She’s one of a growing number of artists who have had online images of their art stolen, minted as unique digital assets on a blockchain, and offered up to trade in cryptocurrency on the NFT platform OpenSea. Continue reading...

Phone notifications are, by design, hard to resist. Stopping them at the source is a better solutionThere’s something about that red dot. The ping. That little shudder of your phone. All those tiny, quiet gestures which together, form a cacophony, making your phone screech: “Something happened. Look at me! Right now! And then again! And sometime later! But still soon! Really soon! OK? OK?”Australians in 2020 spent, on average, an hour and 46 minutes a day on social media. That, according to my rudimentary calculations, is equivalent to more than 26 days a year on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, et al. This, I’d suggest, is too many days. Continue reading...

Law commissions recommend that vehicle users should not face regulatory sanctions if something goes wrongUsers of self-driving cars should have immunity from a wide range of motoring offences, including dangerous driving, speeding and jumping red lights, Britain’s law commissions have jointly recommended.The Law Commission for England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission propose creation of an Automated Vehicles Act to reflect the “profound legal consequences” of self-driving cars. The person in the driving seat would no longer responsible for how the car drives; instead, the company or body that obtained authorisation for the self-driving vehicle would face regulatory sanctions if anything went wrong. Continue reading...

The largest ever semiconductor chip merger has been hit by regulatory hurdles and industry oppositionNvidia is becoming increasingly resigned to giving up on its $40bn takeover of Cambridge-based chip designer Arm, as regulatory hurdles and industry opposition mounts, making it almost certain that the two-year time frame the companies aimed to complete the deal in will expire.The contentious deal, the largest ever in the semiconductor industry, has become mired in seemingly insurmountable regulatory red tape on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in China since being announced in September 2020. Continue reading...

The tech world has been overtaken by the seductive idea of a virtual utopia, but what’s on offer looks more like a late-capitalist technocratic nightmareI have spent large portions of my life in virtual worlds. I’ve played video games since I was six; as a millennial, I’ve lived online since adolescence; and I’ve been reporting on games and gaming culture for 16 years. I have been to Iceland for an annual gathering of the players of EVE Online, an online spaceship game whose virtual politics, friendships and rivalries are as real as anything that exists outside its digital universe. I’ve seen companies make millions, then billions from selling virtual clothes and items to players eager to decorate their virtual selves. I’ve encountered people who met in digital worlds and got married in the real one, who have formed some of their most significant relationships and had meaningful life experiences in, well … people used to call it cyberspace, but the current buzzword is “the metaverse”.Ask 50 people what the metaverse means, right now, and you’ll get 50 different answers. If a metaverse is where the real and virtual worlds collide, then Instagram is a metaverse: you create an avatar, curate your image, and use it to interact with other people. What everyone seems to agree on, however, is that it’s worth money. Epic Games and the recently rebranded Facebook are investing billions a year in this idea. When Microsoft bought video game publisher Activision for $70bn last week, it was described as “a bet on the metaverse”. Continue reading...

Change will force hundreds of thousands of older people and those in rural areas to upgrade mobilesHundreds of thousands of predominantly older people and those living in rural areas will be forced to upgrade their mobile phones by the end of 2023, as Vodafone sets a deadline for switching off its ageing 3G network next year with a promise that “no one will be left behind”.Vodafone, which has about 18 million UK mobile customers, is to turn off the almost two-decade-old network as usage dwindles to focus on using the freed up spectrum to expand its 4G and 5G networks. Continue reading...

The UK cybersecurity outfit has been on a rollercoaster ride from a meteoric share price rise to a plunge in market valueDarktrace is a well-oiled sales and marketing machine, as slick and turbocharged as the multimillion-pound McLaren Formula One sponsorship deal it uses to entice prospective clients, and yet the cybersecurity company continues to be overshadowed by questions about its technology and founding investor.On the face of it, Darktrace is a great British tech success story. It was founded in Cambridge nine years ago by an alliance of mathematicians, former spies from GCHQ and artificial intelligence (AI) experts. Its market value hit almost £7bn within months of its stock market float last April as investors clamoured for a stake in the promise of a rare European superpower in the US-dominated cybersecurity space. Continue reading...

When I moved house the provider didn’t process the switch, and now it says the local fibre cabinet is fullWe have just moved into a house in Woodford Green on the edge of London but BT is unable to offer us broadband. The previous occupant had it, and as soon as I had a moving date I asked BT to switch us. However, it seems that this was not processed properly and the connection has been given to someone else in the road.Incredibly, BT has told me that the local fibre cabinet is full, and there is no longer an old-style copper line connection. We need wifi to work at home and can’t believe this is happening in 2022. Continue reading...

Third-gen of popular earbuds have improved design, shorter stalks and virtual surround soundApple’s AirPods need no introduction due to their ubiquity on the street, but is the third generation of the most popular wireless earbud actually an improvement?The new earbuds have been redesigned to resemble the Pro models with shorter stalks and a better fit. They don’t block your ear canal, like the Pros though, just rest in place with all the benefits and disadvantages of an open fit, including an airy feel and complete lack of isolation from the outside world.Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, SBC, AAC, H1 chipBattery life: six hours playback (30 hours with case)Water resistance: IPX4 (splash resistant)Earbud dimensions: 30.8 x 18.3 x 19.2mmEarbud weight: 4.28g eachCharging case dimensions: 46.4 x 54.4 x 21.4mmCharging case weight: 37.9gCase charging: Lightning, Qi wireless (MagSafe) Continue reading...

Texas, Indiana, Washington state and DC condemn what they call invasions of users’ privacyTexas, Indiana, Washington state and the District of Columbia sued Alphabet’s Google on Monday over what they called deceptive location tracking practices that invade users’ privacy.“Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access,” the office of the Washington DC attorney general, Karl Racine, said in a statement. Continue reading...

Facebook founder’s planned metaverse, blending reality with digital experiences, will require enormous computing powerMark Zuckerberg has announced his social media empire is building what he claims is the world’s fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer as part of plans to build a virtual metaverse.The Facebook founder said in a blogpost that the metaverse, a concept that blends the physical and digital world via virtual and augmented reality, will require “enormous” computing power. The AI supercomputer, dubbed AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) by Zuckerberg’s Meta business, is already the fifth fastest in the world, the company said. Continue reading...

A hotel discovered its smart floor cleaner had escaped – and offered a reward for its return. But where had it gone?Name: Robot vacuum cleaners.Age: 20. Continue reading...

The focus seems to be on upgrading internet speeds in urban areas, while rural locations struggle, says Richard HarrisI live in a small village about two miles from a large town that has high-speed broadband. My experience mirrors your report (19 January) that local governments focus extensively on easy-to-reach urban areas. Money was spent to improve areas that already had high speeds, just from a rival provider.The local project was wound up. Our village was left stuck in the slow lane of 2Mbps speeds. Luckily, a conversation with our local councillor helped resolve this and the village now has a high-speed fibre network. Continue reading...

A slow connection affects not only your entertainment but also your ability to work from homeFind out the speed you are getting using a computer connected to your router via an ethernet network cable. Many routers and other devices come with one, or they cost about £5 separately. Continue reading...

Committee report says draft bill is neither clear nor robust enough to tackle some harmful contentThe sharing of some of the most insidious images of child abuse will not be prevented by a new government bill that aims to the make the internet a safer place, MPs have said.The draft online safety bill is not clear or robust enough to tackle some forms of illegal and harmful content, according to a report by the digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) committee. The landmark bill places a duty of care on tech firms to protect users from harmful content or face substantial fines imposed by the communications regulator Ofcom. Continue reading...

Technology stocks have been tumbling in the new year; now all eyes are on the sector’s giants as they report resultsTech stocks have been nursing a new year hangover, pushing the Nasdaq into correction territory. Momentum is building against companies with exciting promises to reshape the world, as investors turn to “value” alternatives such as oil and banking.The tech sector now faces a crunch fortnight as its biggest names report results, including Microsoft on Tuesday, Tesla on Wednesday and Apple on Thursday. They must prove they can thrive in a post-lockdown world where the cost-of-living squeeze is leaving people with less money for tech products and services. Continue reading...

Two-thirds of all new cars bought by Norwegians last year were electric. Turns out you just need a government with a clueI’ve just been standing for 10 minutes at a moderately quiet junction near where I work in Cambridge. During that time I’ve seen six electric vehicles (EVs) – three VW ID.3s, a Nissan Leaf, a Nissan white van and a Renault Zoe. Three years ago, if I’d been standing at the same spot, I’d have seen precisely zero such vehicles. And what that brought to mind was Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated reply to the question: how does one go bankrupt? “Two ways,” he said. “Gradually, then suddenly.”Something similar is going on in relation to adoption of EVs in Britain. The hockey-stick graph is common in consumer technologies. We saw it in the early years of mobile phones, when text messaging was ignored by adults as an inferior form of email. But when pay-as-you-go tariffs arrived and teenagers could have phones, SMS use suddenly shot skywards. The arrival of kids represented a tipping point – a point in time when a group rapidly changes its behaviour by widely adopting a previously rare practice. Continue reading...

After some early dismay, one family revels in a break from the online world at a remote Lake District cottage

French luxury brand says Mason Rothschild’s furry MetaBirkins digital tokens ‘rip off’ its trademarkFrench luxury group Hermès has started legal proceedings against an American artist over virtual versions inspired by its famous Birkin bags.Mason Rothschild creates digital art that he sells as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, which can be traded online but ownership cannot be forged. Continue reading...

The announcement, in an industry where unions are rare, came on the heels of Microsoft’s acquisition of the companyEmployees at Raven Software, a video game studio owned by Activision Blizzard, announced Friday they have formed a union – a milestone in a largely unorganized industry recently marred by labor complaints.Several dozen employees of the Wisconsin studio, which is behind the massively popular Call of Duty series, voted in favor of the union. The news comes just days after Microsoft announced it would acquire Activision Blizzard for $70bn. Continue reading...