Sun 31 May 2026: Parents overwhelmingly back Australian-style restrictions on social media for children, the British technology secretary has said. Ministers are considering a ban on social media for under-16s and more than 80,000 people have responded to a consultation on whether to introduce restrictions. One option is an Australian-style ban that forbids children under 16 from having […]
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Sat 30 May 2026: Most of us don’t worry too much about where our data goes. We store documents in the cloud, collaborate online with Slack and Zoom and rely on platforms like Microsoft 365, Amazon Web Services and Google Workspace. These tools are efficient, convenient and deeply embedded in how universities, businesses and governments […]
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Fri 29 May 2026: Claude maker raises $65bn from investors ahead of expected initial public offering. Anthropic has usurped OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup, soaring to a $965bn valuation ahead of expected public listings by the rival firms. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude family of chatbots, said on Thursday that […]
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Fri 29 May 2026: Social media has reached more than half (63.9%) of the world’s population since it got started in 1996. Social network platforms grew from 970 million users in 2010 to 5.41 billion in July 2025. The average social media user engages with between six and seven platforms. The average person spends two hours 21 minutes on social media […]
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Fri 29 May 2026: Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has exploded on the launchpad during a test in the US state of Florida. The incident on Thursday evening is the latest setback for Jeff Bezos’s space venture as it seeks to narrow the gap with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Footage of the incident shows smoke emerging from […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: Global society makes billions of images and uploads hundreds of thousands of hours of video on the internet every day. The problem is, some of this content is misleading or downright wrong. And when it’s in visual form, it can be particularly convincing. Take the Met Gala that happened earlier this month in New […]
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Thu 28 May 2026: YouTube will in future automatically detect AI-generated content and flag the information to viewers on its platform, the Google-owned company said Wednesday. The move reverses a previous policy of relying on video creators to self-report if they had used generative AI tools. “If a creator doesn’t specify whether or not they […]
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Wed 27 May 2026: Social media ranks alongside smoking as a danger to children, senior British doctors said on Tuesday, as they urged lawmakers to tackle the harm that they say excessive screen time is causing to young people. The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges detailed the impact of social media on children in a […]
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Wed 27 May 2026: Asia bought the most Chinese EVs of any region, followed by Europe and Latin America, data compiled by Bloomberg shows. China’s electric vehicle exports surged 40 percent last month, bolstering its position at the top of the rapidly growing global market, customs data compiled by Bloomberg shows. Chinese EV exports hit […]
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Tue 26 May 2026: Misleading information online is often treated as a technical glitch, something that better algorithms or stricter moderation can fix. But research points to a more complex reality. That is, the rise of “misfluencers”, individuals who shape how information is interpreted, shared and trusted across digital platforms. Whether acting deliberately or not, they tap […]
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