Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81. His daughter, Belinda, said he died at home in London on Thursday morning after …
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Geofence location and keyword warrants are new law enforcement tools that have privacy experts concerned It was a routine bike ride around the neighborhood that landed Zachary McCoy in the crosshairs of the Gainesville, Florida, police department. In January 2020, an alarming email from Google landed in McCoy’s inbox. Police were requesting his user data, …
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Delivery drivers and warehouse workers are already monitored relentlessly. Now white-collar employees are getting a taste of surveillance capitalism The corporate handwringing started at almost the same time as the lockdown orders: “But if all of our workers are at home, where we can’t see them, how can we possibly know that they’re actually working?” …
Executive was found to be buying artworks shortly before they were promoted on site’s front page A non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace has introduced policies to ban insider trading, after an executive at the company was discovered to be buying artworks shortly before they were promoted on the site’s front page. OpenSea, one of the leading …
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This experimental game is a network of near-future science-fiction stories, connected by a central mystery On first click, Omnipedia feels like the shadow-sister of Wikipedia: empty white space with the occasional image, marked up by slim black text and iconic blue hyperlinks. But we are on a different internet now. This fictional encyclopedia is essentially …
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When the ‘subscription social network’ OnlyFans announced it would be banning the sexually explicit content that made it a billion-dollar business, sex workers were up in arms – and many observers wondered how the move could make financial sense. Then it had second thoughts. So what does this tech saga tell us about where pornography …
More than 140 workers sign petition decrying ‘massive moral failing’ following Guardian revelations Google employees and subcontracted workers are demanding that the company pay back wages to temporary workers, following a Guardian report that revealed Google had knowingly and illegally underpaid thousands of temps for years. More than 140 workers have signed a petition addressed …
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Social media giant is under pressure over revelations it knew Instagram was harming girls’ mental health Facebook should be punished with substantial fines, potentially running into billions of pounds, if it withholds evidence that its social media platforms harm users, according to the MP leading scrutiny of a new online safety bill. The social network …
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Adverts promoting ‘dangerous, unproven and unethical’ procedure shown millions of times, study finds Facebook has served “abortion reversal” adverts 18.4m times since January 2020, according to a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), promoting an “unproven, unethical” and “dangerous” procedure. Google shows the adverts on more than four-fifths of searches related to …
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Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Facebook Reality Labs’ bid to fulfil a science-fiction dream … Apple launch fatigue … and changes to the newsletter It’s hard to talk about Ray-Ban Stories, because what they represent is significantly more important than what they are. But first, let’s talk about what they are. The …
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