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Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling ‘detox’ products, investigation finds Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Covid conspiracy theorists are seeking to profit from the millions of followers they have built up on Instagram during the pandemic by marketing health supplements, wellness courses and juicers to them. …

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Making a plan now can prevent identity theft, save records and stop friends getting painful pop-up reminders when you’re gone Two things are certain in life: death and the internet. With so many day-to-day functions, tasks and memories now taking place online, the question of what will become of your digital legacy – who will …

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There have been many reports but little action: UK university science departments need to do more to fix their serious diversity problem ‘Not built for minorities to succeed’: black scientists on academia’s race problem The Nobel laureate poet Sir Derek Walcott once said that the English language is nobody’s special property: “It is the property …

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Neuralink video appears to show monkey controlling game paddle simply by thinking The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup released footage on Friday appearing to show a monkey playing a simple video game after getting implants of the new technology. The three-minute video by Neuralink shows Pager, a male macaque with chips embedded on each …

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Workers at Bessemer warehouse reject joining RWDSU Legal challenge looks inevitable due to many contested ballots Amazon has won a victory in its hard-fought campaign to stop workers at an Alabama warehouse forming the company’s first union, in a tough blow for the US labor movement. Workers at the Bessemer, Alabama, plant have voted 1,798 …

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Firm takes action after criticism by UK competitions regulator for failing to clamp down on illegal trade Facebook has removed more than 16,000 groups trading fake reviews after the UK’s competition regulator criticised the company for failing to make good on a previous promise to clamp down on the practice. In January 2020, the Competition …

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Over the past year, I’ve reconnected with my laziest self. Now I need a jump start Before I met my wife, my capacity to do nothing was infinite. After I met my wife, my capacity to do nothing remained infinite, but I was retrained to believe that staring into space doesn’t count as a hobby. …

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Chelsey Glasson alleged she had been discriminated against while pregnant and had witnessed others being treated similarly When Chelsey Glasson found out she was pregnant with her second child in 2019, she did not anticipate the first three years of her new baby’s life would be overshadowed by an epic legal battle against a trillion-dollar …

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New American proposals offer the prospect of a global deal against corporate tax avoidance. Britain has a vital role to play in making it work The terrible global cloud that is the Covid-19 pandemic offered the world the glimpse of a silver lining this week. New tax proposals by Joe Biden mean that the economic …

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Pseudocide looks at infamous, grisly cases of death fraud. Plus: deliciously devellish scares in At Your Peril, and a rich true crime investigation in West Cork Pseudocide Spotify’s new podcast about people who faked their own deaths is a hub of tangled twists and turns. Alice Fiennes and Poppy Damon host the show, but in …

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