Thursday, June 11, 2020

Twitter aims to limit people sharing articles they have not read

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Twitter is trying to stop people from sharing articles they have not read, in an experiment the company hopes will "promote informed d...

We're not all going to be working from home, nor should we. Here's why

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Don't believe everything you hear about working from home. The pandemic has closed offices around the world. The video-conferencing se...

Zoom shuts accounts of activists holding Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong events

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Three prominent human rights activists have accused Zoom of disrupting or shutting down their accounts because they were linked to events t...

Amazon to ban police use of facial recognition software for a year

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Amazon is implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its artificial intelligence software Rekognition amid a growing backlash over...

Just Eat beats Uber to snap up Grubhub for £5.8bn

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European food delivery service Just Eat Takeaway has agreed to buy the US-based app Grubhub for $7. 3bn (£5.8bn) in a deal that would cre...

Hack-for-hire group targeted climate activists behind #ExxonKnew campaign

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A global hack-for-hire group extensively targeted American activists campaigning against ExxonMobil for withholding information about the c...

Egypt arrests young women who posted clips on TikTok

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Young Egyptian TikTok stars have become the latest target of state authorities, who accuse them of spreading "immorality" in soci...