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Facebook parent faces threats of illegal social media monopoly after spending billions to acquire two platforms Facebook parent Meta Platforms faces a high-stakes trial in Washington starting on Monday on claims it built an illegal social media monopoly by spending billions of dollars to acquire Instagram and WhatsApp, in a case in which US antitrust …

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Looking for love or a new career in San Francisco, Los Angeles or Phoenix? You just might find it in a Waymo autonomous vehicle Name: Waymo. Age: Founded in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. Continue reading… Looking for love or a new career in San Francisco, Los Angeles or Phoenix? You just might …

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Exclusive: Gaming platform accused of ‘troubling disconnect between child-friendly appearance and reality’ ‘A man approached him’: parents describe their children’s Roblox problems “Deeply disturbing” research exposes how easy it is for children to encounter inappropriate content and interact unsupervised with adults on the gaming platform Roblox. It comes as parents shared their serious concerns about …

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People tell how their children have been negatively affected by the gaming platform or have come to serious harm Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers David, a 46-year-old father from Calgary, Canada, initially did not see a problem when his 10-year-old son started to play on Roblox, the platform of user-generated games …

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This story from Charlie Brooker’s dystopian series is set at PC Zone magazine and thrillingly close to true events at one dingy London office in the 90s Out of all the episodes in the excellent seventh season of Black Mirror, it’s Plaything that sticks out to me and I suspect to anyone else who played …

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The US president has said no one is ‘getting off the hook’, as he promises to launch a national security investigation into the semiconductor sector The exemption of smartphones, laptops and other electronic products from import tariffs on China will be short-lived, top US officials have said, with Donald Trump warning that no one was …

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Exemption, seen as a climbdown, includes laptops and chips, and is likely to help firms such as Apple and Nvidia US stock markets were expected to stage a recovery on Monday after Donald Trump excluded imports of smartphones and laptops from his tariff regime late on Friday night. Shares in Apple and chip maker Nvidia …

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Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s piece about the loud use of phones on public transport with no consideration for others In response to the article by Adrian Chiles (Where have all the headphones gone on public transport? The noise is eating into my soul, 9 April), I sat next to a guy on a flight …

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The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them The movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own …

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New measures announced to help tariff-hit British firms amid ambitious plans to foster closer ties with EU The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has set out the case for far-reaching changes to global trade and economic agreements, admitting that Donald Trump’s tariffs will have a “profound” effect on the UK and world economies that require a strong …

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