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Liberty hails decision that prior independent authorisation is needed for people’s communications data The security and intelligence services must acquire “prior independent authorisation” to obtain people’s communications data from telecom providers, a civil rights campaign group has said, after it won a high court challenge. Liberty hailed a “landmark victory” and said two judges ruled …

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The New York photographer on the mystery deli worker daydreaming while she worked Melissa Breyer has never met the woman she shot in the window of a Brooklyn deli on her morning run, but she considers the image something of a self-portrait. “When I first moved to New York,” she says, “I was an artist …

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Consumption down by third since 11 June, with even sharper falls among other cryptocurrency networks The amount of electricity consumed by the largest cryptocurrency networks has decreased by up to 50% as the “crypto winter” continues to eat at the incomes of “miners” and financial contagion spreads further throughout the sector. The electricity consumption of …

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Global analysis finds increase most sharp among age group, prompting concerns about impact on health Screen time during the Covid pandemic increased the most among primary schoolchildren, by an extra hour and 20 minutes a day on average, according to the first global review of research. The sharp rise in screen time was associated with …

Primary-age children’s screen time went up by 83 minutes a day during pandemic – study Read More »

In an NFT world fraught with frauds, few pause to check for fakes: ‘The crypto mindset is they know it’s chaos and bullshit and they don’t care’ Snoop Dogg has rapped that “It’s kind of hard being Snoop D-O-double-G”. But apparently not that hard for a Snoop Dogg impersonator who was hired “last minute” by …

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Report claims Milan-based RCS Lab developed tools to spy on private messages and contacts of targeted devices An Italian company’s hacking tools were used to spy on Apple and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan, Alphabet Inc’s Google said in a new report. Milan-based RCS Lab, whose website claims European law enforcement agencies as clients, …

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The interests of a significant minority are being neglected as everyday tasks are conducted via smartphones and tablets On the eve of this week’s rail strikes, it was reported that industry bosses are planning to phase out paper train tickets and shut almost 1,000 station ticket offices in England. The government says nothing has been …

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Federal court approves settlement between Australia’s competition watchdog and tech company over phones marketed as water-resistant Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Samsung has agreed to pay a $14m penalty for misleading claims that seven of its Galaxy phones were water-resistant …

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Verification in US will require youngsters to provide video or find three adults to vouch for them Instagram will start testing strong age verification for the first time, requiring users who try to change their age from under-18 to over-18 to either upload a video selfie for automatic age verification, or find three adults to …

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Technology promises ability to ‘make the memories last’ by mimicking the voice of anyone it hears Amazon plans to let people turn their dead loved ones’ voices into digital assistants, with the company promising the ability to “make the memories last”. The company is developing technology that will allow its Alexa digital assistant to mimic …

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