Month: November 2022

New colour-coded categories next week for individuals, government and firms with accounts ‘manually authenticated’ Elon Musk has said Twitter verification will return next week with colour-coded categories for individuals, government accounts and companies. Twitter’s new owner said the platform would launch a new verification service next Friday, having pulled an earlier attempt at a revamp …

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On one of firm’s biggest shopping days of year, employees demand better wages and conditions Amazon warehouse workers in the UK and 40 other countries are to strike and stage protests timed to coincide with the Black Friday sales, one of the company’s biggest shopping days of the year. Employees in dozens of countries, from …

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It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators – and those they influenced – hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic Pong: a game so simple a bundle of lab-grown brain cells could play it. This might sound like a …

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Facebook owner seeks assurance that vital directive will not be purged by former business secretary’s bill Facebook and Instagram have asked for government protection from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s bonfire of up to 4,000 EU laws on post-Brexit statute books. In a letter to a parliamentary committee to be published on Friday, the parent group, Meta, asks …

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Tech titans like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried have been feted for their wealth, but see the world in ways that also merit scrutiny The new gods are running into a bit of trouble. From the soap opera playing out at Twitter HQ, the too-big-to-fail bankruptcies in the cryptocurrency space, to mass tech layoffs, the …

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The ‘dabloon revolution’ is all over the social media platform. Here’s everything you need to know A “dabloon revolution” is taking over TikTok – but what is it and how did we get here? Continue reading… The ‘dabloon revolution’ is all over the social media platform. Here’s everything you need to know A “dabloon revolution” …

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Social media firm may struggle to comply with EU laws on online safety after departure of key figures Twitter has disbanded its entire Brussels office, according to media reports, raising questions about the social media company’s compliance with new EU laws to control big tech. Julia Mozer and Dario La Nasa, who were in charge …

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Child safety groups welcome return of bill, which was put on hold after resignation of Boris Johnson UK politics live – latest news updates The online safety bill will return to parliament in December, the Commons leader, Penny Mordaunt, has confirmed. The bill’s future has been in doubt ever since the resignation of Boris Johnson …

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Never mind the yuck factor: precision fermentation could produce new staple foods, and end our reliance on farming So what do we do now? After 27 summits and no effective action, it seems that the real purpose was to keep us talking. If governments were serious about preventing climate breakdown, there would have been no …

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UK government blocked new Chinese ownership on security grounds, but Nexperia bosses ‘planned to build two new plants’ The clean room in Newport, south Wales, is the size of a football field, but in the industry they call it a ballroom. Workers in full bodysuits move silicon wafers from one end to another in a …

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