Been up to much lately? After a year of isolation, I’ve forgotten how to talk to people – but help is at hand A good friend of mine, who started a new job six months ago, is about to meet his colleagues face to face for the first time. They have been buddied up in …
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Fraud can have devastating consequences on victims, and not only financially Mary Higgins’s life changed the moment the phone rang one afternoon in November. The caller claimed to be from the Metropolitan police fraud department and told her that her bank cards had been compromised. In an elaborate scam, involving two days of phone calls …
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Gustafsson’s firm, founded when she was 30, is marketed as a digital parallel of a human body fighting illness Poppy Gustafsson runs a cutting-edge and gender-diverse cybersecurity firm on the brink of a £3bn stock market debut, but she is happy to reference pop culture classic the Terminator to help describe what Darktrace actually does. …
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Emissions cut by 94% in three years, and company is aiming for net zero across its supply chain by 2030 Facebook has reached net zero emissions, the company has announced, paving the way for it to achieve its wider target of net zero emissions across its entire supply chain by 2030. The social network said …
With a global audience of 800m monthly users, most of them under 21, the video sharing social media platform TikTok has always been a place where gaming culture is shared, celebrated and lampooned ShelbyRenae – @shelbyrenaeytA Fortnite Twitch streamer and YouTuber, ShelbyRenae makes hilarious (and often very telling) TikToks focusing on her conversations with the …
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Two experts on the significance of the ACCC court win that found Google ‘partially’ misled users over location data If you have ever used Google Maps on your phone without fiddling with the location settings, it goes without saying that the tech giant knows everywhere you’ve been. The really bad news is that even if …
The makers of Serial examine a string of voter irregularities. Plus: how conspiracy theories and wellness overlap, and Esther Perel meets a couple struggling at work and at home The Improvement AssociationOn first impressions, the latest podcast from the makers of Serial looks set to be a riveting, slow burn tale of US election fraud, …
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Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’ or ‘Do not collect’ Google has been found to have “partially” misled Australian consumers about collecting their location data, according to a federal court ruling handed down on Friday. The court found that Google continued to collect “Location History” and “Web …
But company’s founder pushes back against criticism of its work practices in letter to shareholders Amazon needs to “do a better job” for its employees, Jeff Bezos told shareholders in his final letter as chief executive of the online giant, but he also pushed back against criticism of the company’s work practices. Bezos, who reclaimed …
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Children’s health advocates urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon the plan citing the negative effects of social media on children An international coalition of children’s health advocates has called on Facebook to abandon its plans to build an Instagram product for kids, citing harm to teens from excessive use of social media. The campaign comes after …
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