App was to have been updated before English lockdown easing, but firms objected to data-sharing changes Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers have paused a planned update to the NHS Covid-19 app after Apple and Google blocked it from their stores over privacy violations. The app, which aids contact tracing in …
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Gesture backfires as customers highlight accessibility issues, with one saying UK has ‘completely lost the plot’ A leading sight charity has stressed the need for inclusive web design after rail websites switched to black and white to mark Prince Philip’s death, leaving partially sighted people struggling. Network Rail and National Rail websites turned from colour …
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A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite being alerted to evidence of the wrongdoing. The Guardian has seen extensive internal documentation showing how Facebook handled more than 30 cases across …
The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a “badge post”. “Officially, I’m a low-level [data scientist] who’s being fired today …
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The social media giant is still a law unto itself. Can anybody hold it to account? Half a billion Facebook users’ accounts stolen. Personal information compromised. Telephone numbers and birth dates drifting across the internet being used for God knows what. And for four days, from Facebook’s corporate headquarters, nothing but silence. If this sounds …
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Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling ‘detox’ products, investigation finds Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Covid conspiracy theorists are seeking to profit from the millions of followers they have built up on Instagram during the pandemic by marketing health supplements, wellness courses and juicers to them. …
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Making a plan now can prevent identity theft, save records and stop friends getting painful pop-up reminders when you’re gone Two things are certain in life: death and the internet. With so many day-to-day functions, tasks and memories now taking place online, the question of what will become of your digital legacy – who will …
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There have been many reports but little action: UK university science departments need to do more to fix their serious diversity problem ‘Not built for minorities to succeed’: black scientists on academia’s race problem The Nobel laureate poet Sir Derek Walcott once said that the English language is nobody’s special property: “It is the property …
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Neuralink video appears to show monkey controlling game paddle simply by thinking The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup released footage on Friday appearing to show a monkey playing a simple video game after getting implants of the new technology. The three-minute video by Neuralink shows Pager, a male macaque with chips embedded on each …
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Workers at Bessemer warehouse reject joining RWDSU Legal challenge looks inevitable due to many contested ballots Amazon has won a victory in its hard-fought campaign to stop workers at an Alabama warehouse forming the company’s first union, in a tough blow for the US labor movement. Workers at the Bessemer, Alabama, plant have voted 1,798 …
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