The regulatory body sounds like a positive step. But it’s designed to give political cover while Facebook continues to allow dangerous content In October, Facebook unveiled its long-awaited “oversight board” – a special, semi-independent body, staffed mainly by experts on free speech and constitutional law, with the authority to make decisions about controversial content posted …
Great screen, flagship chips and good camera with a few corners cut for significantly cheaper price With the Mi 11 Xiaomi, one of China’s largest electronics firms, is attempting to undercut Samsung with a premium, top-spec phone costing significantly less. The £750 Mi 11 is the first of Xiaomi’s new top-spec phones for the year, …
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Brothers Patrick and John Collison’s online payments empire is now valued at $95bn The latest fundraising round by the digital payments firm Stripe has boosted the net worth of its co-founders, Patrick and John Collison, to about $11.5bn (£8.3bn) each, catapulting them into the top bracket of the world’s millennial billionaires. Not bad for two …
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The cut will take effect from July with 99% of developers globally receiving a reduction as the company and Apple face legal action from Epic Games Google will slash the fee it takes from Android app developers in the Google Play store by half following a similar move by Apple last year, as the two …
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Graham Ivan Clark also took over account of Kim Kardashian West in 2020 bitcoin scam An 18-year-old hacker who pulled off a huge breach in 2020, infiltrating several high profile Twitter accounts to solicit bitcoin transactions, has agreed to serve three years in prison for his actions. Graham Ivan Clark, of Florida, was 17 years …
To make up for lack of interaction under Covid-19 restrictions, apes at zoos 150km apart can now watch each others’ daily lives on big screens Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Humans might be tiring of video calls, Zoom birthdays and streamed performances, but the chimps at two Czech zoos are just …
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Move follows supreme court ruling that drivers are workers but critics say they are still short-changed Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting from the changes from Wednesday while retaining the right …
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Campaign comes amid warnings that company removes Spanish misinformation less consistently than English material Members of Congress and activist groups have called on Facebook to address its “Spanish-language disinformation crisis”, urging the company to make major policy changes on the platforms it owns. In a new campaign launched on Tuesday, the Democratic representative Tony Cardenas …
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Residents forced to move in 2017 when site was earmarked for LCD screen production The head of Taiwanese manufacturing company Foxconn has said it could start making electric vehicles at a previously abandoned Wisconsin project Donald Trump had claimed would be the “eighth wonder of the world”. Speaking in Taipei on Tuesday Foxconn chairman Young …
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Former high-flying Finnish phone firm to use estimated €600m in savings to fund R&D to catch up with rivals The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia has unveiled plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years, and wants to use the savings to catch up with rivals on 5G technologies. The company …
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