Month: November 2021

Prosecutors are expected to question her statements that she believed her company’s technology to be more accurate than it was Federal prosecutors will begin their cross examination of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday, in Silicon Valley’s highest profile trial in decades. Holmes is entering her fifth day on the stand, where she is fighting …

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Estimated 2.9 billion people, 37% of the population, have never been online despite overall rise in internet use 2.9 billion people – 37% of the world’s population – have never used the internet, according to the United Nations, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online. The UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimated that 96% of …

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Tech company fired three workers who raised concerns about potential sale of cloud technology to US immigration authorities A group of former Google employees have sued the company, alleging that it breached their employment contracts by not honoring its famous motto “don’t be evil”. In the lawsuit filed in California state court, former Google employees …

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The Competition and Markets Authority said the move would protect social media users Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered by the UK competition watchdog to sell gif creation website Giphy, the first time the regulator has moved to block a deal struck by one of the Silicon Valley giants. The Competition and Markets Authority, …

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This gleefully incongruous piece of tie-in merch pays tribute to a quarter-century of Tomb Raider with recipes. So can we expect a spaghetti carbo-Lara? Tomb Raider recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, which means 25 years of articles about how Lara Croft transcended video games to become a global icon even your gran has heard of. …

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Cabinet Office announces new standard for tools that influence exam results, housing benefit allocations and pothole repairs Ministers and public bodies must reveal the architecture behind algorithms that influence exam results, housing benefit allocations and pothole repairs, under new transparency standards. The UK government has published a transparency standard for algorithms, the series of instructions …

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Clearview AI may have gathered data without people’s knowledge, says Information Commissioner’s Office A US company that gathered photos of people from Facebook and other social media sites for use in facial recognition by its clients is facing a £17m fine after the Information Commissioner’s Office found it had committed “serious breaches” of data protection …

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The relatively unknown chief technology officer faces a political minefield in one of Silicon Valley’s top jobs Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO of Twitter and passed the baton to the relatively unknown executive Parag Agrawal. Agrawal, who has been with the company for 10 years – most recently as chief technology officer – …

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I received a flood of renewal demands and unsubscribing doesn’t work I cancelled my McAfee anti-virus subscription earlier this year when I discovered it had been double charging me. It refunded only the current year and led me on a wild goose chase to recover the previous two years’ money; I eventually gave up. Now …

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Holmes said in her fourth day of testimony that Sunny Balwani berated and controlled her to make her more disciplined and focused Elizabeth Holmes has testified that she was emotionally and physically abused by her former lover and business partner, Sunny Balwani, part of her attempt to refute accusations that she lied about Theranos’ core …

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