Ukraine’s previously booming tech sector has shown impressive resilience in face of Russian invasion Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates “We had a plan for when the war started,” says Bogdan Nesvit, the 30-year-old co-founder of Ukrainian tech developer Holy Water. “We relocated the female part of the team to Poland. With men not allowed to leave …
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Tech companies took swift action to back Ukraine, a watershed moment for an industry with control over information Less than a day after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, the head of security at Meta (formerly Facebook) announced the company would no longer accept ad money from Russian state media outlets like Russia Today and …
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Facebook parent company tells workers they will no longer receive free valet service and meals will be delayed Lavish onsite perks may be a thing of the past for employees at Meta, who will now have to do their own laundry due to company cutbacks. The parent company of Facebook informed its employees it would …
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Most abusers don’t have criminal records and won’t get flagged by a check, possibly leading to a false sense of security As of this week, Tinder users will be able to run criminal background checks on their potential dates. The feature – launched in partnership with Garbo, a background check provider that aims to make …
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The Google-owned platform said the invasion of Ukraine fell under its violent events policy and violating material would be removed YouTube announced on Friday that it had begun blocking access globally to channels associated with Russian state-funded media, citing a policy barring content that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events. The video platform had …
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Print media were once the lifeblood of the gaming community, and now a new generation of lovingly assembled periodicals are bringing the scene back to life If you were into video games in the 1980s or 90s, then along with your computer, your QuickShot joystick and your tape player, there was one other vital component …
‘I thought, “I’m going to show these videos to my kids and say that’s what we had to go through”,’ says Diana Totok As Diana Totok and her sister reached through the wire fence separating Romania from Ukraine to grasp her father’s hand, it occurred to her that she might never see him again. Ukraine’s …
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Ukrainian websites have been subjected to a relentless series of attacks – but what will happen when the sites are set on America? The war between Russia and Ukraine has been widely anticipated to play out online, in addition to on the ground. Moscow’s cyberwar capabilities have long been cause for concern. Russia has a …
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The country singer’s new novel and accompanying album have been fused into Spotify’s ‘first Bookcast’. Plus: John Legend calls for prisoners to get voting rights Run, Rose, RunA podcast touched by the hand of Dolly Parton is a beautiful thing. What Spotify are calling their “first Bookcast” features audio excerpts of the novel the singer …
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Parent company Meta makes temporary change to hate speech policy for users in eastern Europe and Caucasus Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Facebook and Instagram users in some countries will be allowed to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, after parent company Meta made a temporary change …
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