Federal Communications Commission action is the latest pushback against what the US sees as infiltration by Chinese tech firms The US communications regulator has voted to revoke China Telecom’s licence in America over national security concerns in the latest pushback by Washington against what it deems possible infiltration of key networks by Chinese companies. The …
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In the second episode of Guardian Australia’s new podcast, Alyx Gorman, Michael Sun and Steph Harmon bring in Rashna Farrukh to discuss how TikTok is leaching into every corner of the internet – and the algorithms that know more about us than we do. Later in the episode: Michael gets trolled by a homeware meme …
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Profits of $1bn on top of largest revenue figure in 14 years Third-quarter earnings beat analysts’ expectations Google parent Alphabet continued big tech’s profitable march through earnings season, reporting third-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations and a near doubling in profits as advertisers chased the consumer shift to online. Alphabet’s revenue rose 41% to …
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Profits are strong, shares are up and its users are increasing. But the social media company is still in big trouble Uh-oh, it looks as if Mark Zuckerberg has caught on to the media’s dastardly plot to destroy Facebook! As you have probably noticed, the technology behemoth has been in the news nonstop recently, as …
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We’ve known that Facebook is lawless and reckless for years. But lawlessness pays – so don’t expect it to change Facebook is having a rough go of it these days, so you might expect the company to be in trouble. For instance, at one Senate judiciary hearing, the Republican senator John Kennedy of Louisiana let …
PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series X/S, Nintendo Switch; Eidos Montréal/Square EnixSimplistic, repetitive interactions drag on an otherwise engaging story based on the Marvel franchise A teenager’s bedroom some time in the 1980s. A boy is listening to his favourite band when his mother enters his room for a heart-to-heart. A very normal situation, only that this …
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US firm Amazon Web Services to host classified material in cloud system, raising sovereignty concerns The UK’s spy agencies have given a contract to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host classified material in a deal aimed at boosting the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence for espionage. GCHQ had supported the procurement of a …
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The use of our bodies to unlock access to services raises concerns about the trade-off between convenience and privacy In a school canteen in Gateshead, cameras scan the faces of children, taking payment automatically after identifying them with facial recognition. More than 200 miles away in North London, staff at a care home recently took …
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Researchers use AI – and witchcraft folklore – to map the coronavirus conspiracy theories that have sprung up Researchers have mapped the web of connections underpinning coronavirus conspiracy theories, opening a new way of understanding and challenging them. Using Danish witchcraft folklore as a model, the researchers from UCLA and Berkeley analysed thousands of social …
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Hi-tech Bluetooth glasses come with clear or tinted lenses and range of frames, but cannot be repaired True smart glasses may be a way off from being useful, or even wanted, but glasses that double as headphones are getting thinner, lighter and better looking. Now the Austrian firm Fauna wants to beat Bose at its …
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