Wed 27 January 2021: Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had acquired email newsletter startup, Revue, as the microblogging platform seeks to attract users who want to make money from their followers. Twitter, which did not disclose the deal value, said it would make Revue’s premium features free for all users starting on Tuesday and […]
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Tue 26 January 2021: Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet Inc formed a labor union for US and Canadian offices. UNI Global Union, that represents about 20 million workers globally, said on Monday it helped […]
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Mon 25 January 2021: Transporter-1 mission, delayed due to adverse weather conditions, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Station in US US aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company SpaceX successfully launched 143 small satellites into space Sunday, a new record for a single rocket. The Transporter-1 mission, delayed on Saturday due to adverse weather conditions, […]
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Sat 23 January 2021: Italian prosecutors have opened a probe into the accidental death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly took part in a “blackout challenge” on the video-sharing network TikTok. The girl died in a Palermo hospital after being discovered on Wednesday by her five-year-old sister in the family bathroom with her cellphone, which […]
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Sat 23 January 2021: A young man was hit and killed by a train in Pakistan while being filmed walking along the tracks for a TikTok stunt, police and rescue officials said Saturday. Hamza Naveed, 18, was walking next to the tracks while a friend filmed him, Raja Rafaqat Zaman, a spokesperson for the local […]
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Fri 22 January 2021: Google has threatened on Friday to withdraw its search engine from Australia over controversy with Canberra on proposed media law, unless the government changes proposed legislation to make the internet giant pay news outlets for their content. At the Senate hearing, managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand Mel Silva […]
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Fri 22 January 2021: Google is set to make digital copyright payments for online news content in France after the internet giant inked a deal with a group of French publishers Thursday, after months of talks. Google France and the Alliance de la Presse d’Information Generale said Thursday that they agreed to set up a […]
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Wed 20 January 2021: The ministry asked WhatsApp to respond to 14 questions including on the categories of user data it collected, whether it profiled customers based on usage and cross-border data flows. India’s technology ministry has asked WhatsApp to withdraw changes to its privacy policy the messaging platform announced earlier this month, saying the […]
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Tue 19 January 2021: Under the auspices of a major new EU project, 15 young researchers are to be trained to develop drones for small flying robots that can maintain wind turbines, bridges, and other important infrastructure. Over the next three years, a total of 15 PhD students will be trained to develop intelligent flying […]
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Tue 19 January 2021: The US has asked Australia to scrap proposed laws that would make it the first country in the world to force Facebook and Google to pay for news sourced from local media outlets. In a submission asking the government to “suspend” the plans, Assistant US Trade Representatives Daniel Bahar and Karl […]
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