Sat 12 December 2020: The British government will announce plans for a new law next week under which social media companies will have a duty to be impartial and be barred from “arbitrarily” removing comments because they are controversial, The Times newspaper reported. UK ministers will announce plans on Tuesday for a statutory duty of […]
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Thu 10 December 2020: The federal government and 46 state attorneys general are suing Facebook, accusing the social media giant of using illegal tactics to maintain its dominance. The FTC is specifically seeking Facebook divest from messaging app WhatsApp and photo sharing service Instagram. Facebook bought the companies in 2014 and 2012 respectively. The suit […]
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Thu 10 December 2020: SpaceX’s Starship prototype has exploded while attempting to land after its test launch from the company’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Live video of Wednesday’s test showed the self-guided rocket landing at speed following a controlled descent before disappearing in a ball of flame. WATCH | #SpaceX ‘s Starship prototype […]
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Wed 09 December 2020: US President Donald Trump and President-Elect Joe Biden emerged as the most and second-most tweeted about people on Twitter for the year 2020, according to the micro-blogging site’s annual year-end review. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also made it to the top 10 most tweeted about people’s list and occupied seventh place […]
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Wed 09 December 2020: United States Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Jim McGovern on Tuesday sent letters to Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp seeking information on the sale of advanced computer chips allegedly used by China to conduct mass surveillance on Uighurs in the country’s remote Xinjiang region. Rubio is the chairman of […]
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Wed 09 December 2020: President Donald Trump was aware of the extraterrestrials’ existence and had been “on the verge of revealing” information but was asked not to in order to prevent “mass hysteria”, claimed the former head of Israel’s security space program to Israeli media on Monday. “The Unidentified Flying Objects have asked not to […]
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Tue 08 December 2020: The coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement topped the list of conversation topics on Twitter in a tumultuous year, the messaging platform said Monday. In a summary of trends, Twitter said the hashtag #COVID19 and other variations were tweeted nearly 400 million times, while #StayHome was the third biggest […]
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Mon 07 December 2020: Scientists have developed a novel technology for a CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test that uses a smartphone camera to provide accurate results in under 30 minutes. According to the research published in the journal Cell, the new diagnostic test can not only generate a positive or negative result, but it also measures […]
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Sun 06 December 2020: Once Turkey starts to mass-produce its own turboshaft helicopter engines, it will avert annual hi-tech imports worth $60 million, a senior official in the country said on Saturday, reported by Anadolu Agency. “Today, we’re witnessing a historic day for our defense industry,” said Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank, speaking at the opening ceremonies of a turboshaft engine delivery facility and […]
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Thu 03 December 2020: Twitter has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin”. In a statement, it added that it “will also continue to surface potentially violative content through proactive detection and automation”. Last year, Twitter banned speech that dehumanises others based on […]
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