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Amol Rajan’s questioning failed to get behind the defences of Sundar Pichai’s ‘nice guy’ media image Last weekend, in what the BBC clearly regarded as important news, the corporation announced that its media editor, Amol Rajan, had been granted an interview with Sundar Pichai, the current CEO of Alphabet (which basically means Google). It was …

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Joe Biden says social media platforms such as Facebook ‘are killing people’ for allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted. ‘Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,’ the US president told reporters at the White House on Friday. ‘They’re killing people’: Biden slams Facebook for Covid disinformation …

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With a new generation fuelling fashion, protest and popular culture, is it time for millennials like me to move over? A panel of young trailblazers give me a glow up – and some lessons in activism I am sitting cross-legged on the floor, wearing a bucket hat, trying to be chill. I rest my chin …

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Social media giants contribute to global conflicts and allow misinformation. How have they gained so much control, and what is that doing to our lives? It’s good to remember that every time Mark Zuckerberg claims that he founded Facebook in order to connect people or build communities, he is somehow forgetting that he first created …

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Alliances are shifting as states led by China and Russia compete with the US and tech entrepreneurs Liu Boming took in the dizzy view. Around him lay the inky vastness of space. Below was the Earth. “Wow,” he said, laughing. “It’s too beautiful out here.” Over the next seven hours Liu and his colleague Tang …

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Additional emojis will complete Unicode’s drive to offer more variety and gender-neutral options A pregnant man, a multiracial handshake and a face that cannot bear to watch are some of the emojis that will hit devices over the next year, according to a draft list published by the Unicode Consortium, which approves icons for use. …

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TV doctors Chris and Xand consider the drastic differences in their weight – and health. Plus: Slate’s One Year takes us back to 1977, and more mind-changing action in You’re Wrong About A Thorough Examination With Drs Chris and XandThe Van Tulleken brothers’ new podcast investigates why Xand is obese and Chris isn’t, despite the …

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Organisations in Scotland say they have tried to contact Google about the dangers but received no reply Scottish mountaineering charities have criticised Google for suggesting routes up Ben Nevis and other mountains they say are “potentially fatal” and direct people over a cliff. The John Muir Trust, which looks after the upper reaches of the …

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Anonymous person will be replaced by 18-year-old recent high school graduate on New Shepard spacecraft The anonymous winner of a ticket to join billionaire Jeff Bezos in space next week will no longer board the New Shepard spacecraft due to “scheduling conflicts”, Bezos’s Blue Origin company announced Thursday. The winner, who paid $29.7m in a …

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• Social media company takes down 200 accounts • ‘Hallmarks of a well-resourced and persistent operation’ Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. …

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