Sessions with virtual-reality headset helped people overcome anxiety and complete everyday tasks It’s a sunny day on a city street as a green bus pulls up by the kerb. Onboard, a handful of passengers sit stony-faced as you step up to present your pass. But you cannot see your body – only a floating pair …
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As food prices soar, Zimbabwe’s diaspora are opting for delivery services rather than money transfers to help hard-hit relatives With the click of a button and a few phone calls from Wolverhampton, in England’s West Midlands, Sharonrose Manhiri ensures her grandmother in Zimbabwe’s Honde valley receives her groceries every month. Manhiri is one of an …
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Staff at more than 50 locations have contacted the organizers as a second warehouse is set to vote on a union later this month Staff at more than 50 Amazon warehouses have contacted the organizers of last week’s historic vote establishing Amazon’s first-ever union, expressing interest in setting up unions of their own. “The revolution …
Messages analyzed were to well-known social media users such as Jamie Klingler, Rachel Riley and Bryony Gordon A new report analyzing thousands of direct messages sent to high profile women on Instagram has uncovered what researchers describe as “systemic” failures to protect women in the public eye from “misogynist harassment”. The report, released by the …
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Social media company says it has been working on edit button since 2021 and will be tested on people signed up for Twitter Blue Twitter has confirmed it has working on an edit button, but denied the idea came after the company’s new largest shareholder, Elon Musk, held a poll on it. For years, editing …
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Planned social media app would prevent workers from using terms such as ‘fire’, ‘slave labor’, ‘diversity’ and ‘injustice’ Amazon reportedly plans to block the word “union” and other related keywords from an internal messaging app the company is developing for workers. The list of banned words includes “union”, “fire”, “compensation”, “plantation”, “slave labor”, “diversity”, “robots”, …
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Ronan Burtenshaw’s publication was labelled as discriminatory and blocked from being promoted Facebook will restore a banned advert promoting an opinion piece calling for renters rights, after the company’s automated systems blocked the post for “discrimination”. But critics say the error will be repeated unless Facebook acts to protect campaigners on its platform. On Monday …
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Quartet targeted by clients – thought to be Jordanian government agencies – of Israeli company even after Apple sued in November New evidence has revealed that an Apple iPhone was successfully hacked by a government user of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in December, weeks after the technology giant sued the Israeli company in a US …
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The departures come after the troubled launch of the company’s iPhone app on 20 February, with many still stuck on a waiting list Two senior executives at Donald Trump’s tech start-up Truth Social have resigned, adding to considerable problems faced by the former president’s attempted takeover of conservative social media. Josh Adams and Billy Boozer …
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Tech giant will launch 3,236 satellites over five years to compete with SpaceX and UK’s OneWeb Amazon will compete directly with SpaceX and the UK government-owned OneWeb to set up a constellation of broadband-providing satellites, the company has announced. The plan, Project Kuiper, will involve Amazon buying the largest batch of commercial launches in history, …
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