The government has been forced to abandon a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app after spending three months and millions of pound...
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Police take too much data from victims' phones, says watchdog
Police are extracting "excessive amounts of personal data" from the mobile phones of victims and witnesses during investigations ...
Pacific data cable not safe from China if Hong Kong included, says US
The US government wants a high-capacity undersea data cable system proposed by Google and Facebook to bypass Hong Kong, citing potential na...
Children interrupting Zoom meetings could be the reboot corporate culture needed
The other day I was in a Zoom meeting with colleagues I don't know that well. The tone was serious and formal when suddenly everything...
What is happening with the UK's contact-tracing app?
The government has abandoned its efforts to build a centralised coronavirus contact-tracing app after nearly three months, announcing it wi...
Piloted in May, ditched in June: the failure of England's Covid-19 app
Designed to be a key component of the test, track and trace programme to forge a way out of lockdown, the NHS Covid-19 app has been beset...
How Bank of America, Starbucks, Target, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others quietly fund the police through private donations
Protests over police violence and racism have amplified calls to re-examine police budgets in the United States, with several large compani...
Monday, June 15, 2020
Future of education 'It's what students look for': the Dutch university that's only hiring women
As a female computer scientist, Alexia Athanasopoulou is used to being in the minority. "People have asked me: 'you're a girl...
New Zealand government deploys nude 'porn actors' in web safety ad
It's a scene out of every parent's – and teenager's – worst nightmare: two adult-film actors turn up naked at the front door,...
The Teesside Silicon Valley: Middlesbrough's £250m bid to be digital powerhouse
'We are going to terrify you," declared the mayor of Middlesbrough, as he unveiled his grand plan for a trio of 20-storey towers...
Apple News algorithms pick more celeb stories than human editors, study finds
When algorithms replace humans in charge of editing news, they tend to select more stories about celebrities from a less diverse selection ...
Give 1m UK children reliable broadband or risk harming their education, MPs say
The government must urgently ensure that more than 1 million children have reliable internet access at home or risk irreparable harm to the...
Snapchat firm unveils platform plan to take on Google and Apple
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, has revealed plans for a fully fledged digital platform taking on not only Facebook but also Google and ...
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Class of 2020: a Weekend magazine graduate special ‘The waste and excess is more visible’: how coronavirus is shaking up fashion
It was on the morning of 18 March, when Glastonbury was confirmed cancelled, that Sarah Gresty, BA course leader in fashion at Central Sa...
The networker Silicon Valley has admitted facial recognition technology is toxic – about time
So IBM has seen the light on facial recognition technology. On Monday, in a dramatic and surprisingly passionate statement (at least for t...
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