Month: April 2021

Why are there still so few black scientists in the UK?

There have been many reports but little action: UK university science departments need to do more to fix their serious diversity problem ‘Not built for minorities to succeed’: black scientists on academia’s race problem The Nobel laureate poet Sir Derek Walcott once said that the English language is nobody’s special property: “It is the property …

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Elon Musk startup shows monkey with brain chip implants playing video game

Neuralink video appears to show monkey controlling game paddle simply by thinking The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup released footage on Friday appearing to show a monkey playing a simple video game after getting implants of the new technology. The three-minute video by Neuralink shows Pager, a male macaque with chips embedded on each …

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Facebook removes over 16,000 groups trading fake reviews

Firm takes action after criticism by UK competitions regulator for failing to clamp down on illegal trade Facebook has removed more than 16,000 groups trading fake reviews after the UK’s competition regulator criticised the company for failing to make good on a previous promise to clamp down on the practice. In January 2020, the Competition …

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Victory for Amazon as Alabama workers vote against unionization

Workers at Bessemer warehouse reject joining RWDSU Legal challenge looks inevitable due to many contested ballots Amazon has won a victory in its hard-fought campaign to stop workers at an Alabama warehouse forming the company’s first union, in a tough blow for the US labor movement. Workers at the Bessemer, Alabama, plant have voted 1,798 …

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I’m bingeing on TikTok and cat videos: here’s my way back from the abyss | Romesh Ranganathan

Over the past year, I’ve reconnected with my laziest self. Now I need a jump start Before I met my wife, my capacity to do nothing was infinite. After I met my wife, my capacity to do nothing remained infinite, but I was retrained to believe that staring into space doesn’t count as a hobby. …

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She sued for pregnancy discrimination. Now she’s battling Google’s army of lawyers

Chelsey Glasson alleged she had been discriminated against while pregnant and had witnessed others being treated similarly When Chelsey Glasson found out she was pregnant with her second child in 2019, she did not anticipate the first three years of her new baby’s life would be overshadowed by an epic legal battle against a trillion-dollar …

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The Guardian view on taxing the tech giants: time to pay up | Editorial

New American proposals offer the prospect of a global deal against corporate tax avoidance. Britain has a vital role to play in making it work The terrible global cloud that is the Covid-19 pandemic offered the world the glimpse of a silver lining this week. New tax proposals by Joe Biden mean that the economic …

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National Archives won’t be allowed to restore Trump’s tweets on the platform

Twitter said that because of the former president’s ban content from his account will not appear on the social network The National Archives will not be allowed to resurrect Donald Trump’s tweets on the social network, Twitter said on Wednesday, even in its official capacity as a record-keeping organization. However the archive is working to …

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Facebook will not notify more than 530m users exposed in 2019 breach

Company spokesperson said Facebook was not confident it had full visibility on which users would need to be alerted Facebook has not notified the more-than 530m users whose details were exposed on a hacker forum in 2019 and has no plans to do so, according to company representatives. Continue reading… Company spokesperson said Facebook was …

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