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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Much of the blame for the world’s increasingly polarised politics lies with social networks and the radicalising effects of their services, the whistleblower Frances Haugen told MPs as she called for external regulation to reduce social harm. The company’s internal culture prioritised profitability over its impact on the wider world, said Haugen, a former product manager on …
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The company reported a 6% increase of daily active users and a revenue that grew to $29.01bn thanks to online advertising Facebook’s profits topped $9bn during its most recent financial quarter, clearing investor predictions even as the company faces an onslaught of negative publicity over a major release of whistleblower documents. The company revealed in …
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Roundup of what we have learned after release of papers and whistleblower’s testimony to MPs Facebook has been at the centre of a wave of damaging revelations after a whistleblower released tens of thousands of internal documents and testified about the company’s inner workings to US senators. Frances Haugen left Facebook in May with a …
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Ex-employee tells UK MPs Mark Zuckerberg ‘has unilateral control over 3bn people’ due to his position Mark Zuckerberg “has unilateral control over 3 billion people” due to his unassailable position at the top of Facebook, the whistleblower Frances Haugen told MPs as she called for urgent external regulation to rein in the tech company’s management …
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