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Kids gaming platform Roblox faces hurdles ahead of public listing
Offensive content can be found in some game titles and user profiles on children’s gaming platform Roblox
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Facebook offers up first-ever estimate of hate speech prevalence on its platform
Facebook is under scrutiny over its policing of abuses, particularly around November’s US presidential election
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Verizon, Apple partner to swap out corporate-owned phones for 5G iPhones
The newer 5G technology also allows for private networks for businesses
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Amazon sacks dozens of staff at drone project, taps new manufacturers
US online retailer Amazon has laid off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff from its delivery drone project
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5G mobile network goes live in France
5G has been widely anticipated, as well as touted as a technology that will further the fight against climate change
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Apple, US states reach $113 million settlement on iPhone throttling
Apple in 2016 quietly updated software on models of the iPhone 6, 7, and SE causing devices to unexpectedly shut down
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Japan to begin experiments issuing digital yen
More than 30 major Japanese firms will begin experiments next year towards issuing a common, private digital currency
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Covid-19 survivors may have long lasting immunity; Pfizer vaccine is 95% effective in trial
Most Covid-19 survivors are likely to have lasting protection against severe the virus if they become reinfected
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Three countries that spend the most on research and development
Investment in research and development (R&D) has become imperative in the post-pandemic era
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4 ways Covid-19 will redefine the way we work
According to a study, 98% of people said they would like the option to work remotely for the rest of their careers
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'Better off thanks to China': German companies double down on resurgent giant
German industrial robot-maker Hahn Automation plans to invest millions of euros in new factories in China
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'More power than traditional media': Facebook, Twitter policies attacked
Republican lawmakers have consistently accused Facebook and Twitter of anti-conservative bias
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Bitcoin hits nearly three-year peak, homes in on record
Citi’s technical analyst Tom Fitzpatrick said that bitcoin could climb as high as $318,000, based on his charts
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TikTok expands features to give parents more control of their teenagers' accounts
Parents will be able to decide what content, users, hashtags, or sounds their children can search for on the platform
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Twitter launches disappearing 'fleets' worldwide
Twitter will globally be launching tweets that disappear after 24 hours
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US military is buying location data from popular Muslim apps
Most popular app among those involved in this data trade is a Muslim prayer app with nearly 100 billion downloads
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'SpaceX, this is Resilience': Four astronauts begin six-month stay on space station
NASA’s first full-fledged mission ferrying a crew into orbit on a privately-owned spacecraft
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Universe becomes hotter over billions of years
According to new research temperature of the universe has been rising over last 10 billion years
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Japan supercomputer retains its world fastest position
Fugaku performed over 442 quadrillion computations per second
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NXP, Amazon partner to connect cars to cloud computing services
NXP entered a strategic relationship with Amazon’s cloud computing unit to help cars communicate with data centers
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5 top cloud storage services for photos
Cloud storage websites offer businesses and individuals an alternative to expensive hardware
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Apple hits back at European activist complaints against tracking tool
Apple rebutted claims that the online tracking tool used in its devices breached European law
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Huawei selling Honor brand to agent-dealer consortium to keep smartphone unit alive
Huawei is selling its budget brand smartphone unit Honor in a bid to keep it alive
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Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
Twitter appointed one of the world's best-regarded hackers to tackle engineering missteps and misinformation
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Tech groups' services could face bans if they breach rules, EU industry chief says
Google launched a 60-day strategy to get US allies to push back against EU’s digital chief
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Privacy activist files complaints against Apple's tracking tool
Apple uses a tracking code that is automatically generated on every iPhone when it is set up
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In a Twitter tizzy, Trump says Biden ‘won’ but reasserts rigged, fake news claims
President Trump publicly acknowledged for the first time that his Democratic rival Joe Biden 'won'
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Is Spotify finally launching in Pakistan?
Spotify has 144 million subscribers with over 60 million tracks, and 4 billion playlists to choose from
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PUBG Mobile is launching Urdu voice packs for Pakistani users
Players also have a chance to win a free voice pack by visiting PUBG store and completing a mission with their friends
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'One heck of a ride': SpaceX launches astronauts into space
NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately-owned spacecraft
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SpaceX launch of crew on first 'operational' mission delayed by weather
SpaceX delayed the launch of four astronauts into orbit for NASA’s first full-fledged human mission
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Velodyne aims to price new self-driving car sensor below $500
Velodyne expects automotive-grade mass manufacturing to be underway by the second half of 2021
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Google CEO apologises for document, EU's Breton warns internet is not Wild West
Google internal document outlined a 60-day strategy to attack the European Union’s push for new rules
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Boston Dynamics dog robot 'Spot' learns new tricks on BP oil rig
Boston Dynamics dog robot can be purchased for $74,500
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North Korean, Russian hackers target Covid-19 researchers: Microsoft
Hackers have targeted more than half a dozen organisations involved in Covid-19 treatment and vaccine research
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US government holds off enforcing ban on TikTok
Trump administration has insisted on the need to ban TikTok, saying it has links to the Chinese government
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Gaming boom plays into Tencent's hands with 89% profit rise
Tencent's flagship game Honour of Kings reported a record 100 million daily active users in first 10 months of 2020
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Ferrari lifts the lid on convertible version of SF90 Stradale hybrid
Ferrari unveiled the SF90 Spider, a convertible version of its SF90 Stradale hybrid
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Amazon shifts some voice assistant, face recognition computing to its own chips
Major technology companies are increasingly ditching traditional silicon providers to design their own chips
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Covid-19 'war games': The computer program that could help save your job
In the game, participants weigh up the pros and cons of large-scale redundancies versus alternatives
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Pfizer CEO sold $5.6 million in stock on day of vaccine announcement
Pfizer announced that trials so far had shown its vaccine being 90 per cent effective
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Google curtails free photo storage, pushes users to buy more space
Google will start limiting how many high-quality photos users can store on the company's cloud back-up service`
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YouTube back up after worldwide outage
Nearly 286,000 incidents of people reported issues with the service
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Sony PS5 sold out online as pandemic chills real-world retailing
PlayStation 5 which retails for $500 or $400 without a disk-drive, was sold out on major retailing sites in Japan
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Coronavirus vaccine hope dampens prospects for corporate stay-at-home darlings
Surge in shares of Netflix, Zoom, and other stay-at-home corporate winners has been brought to a sudden halt
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Alibaba touts billions in sales as post-virus Singles' Day gets into full swing
Alibaba said orders made through its e-commerce sites had exceeded $56 billion
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One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days
Anxiety, depression, and insomnia were most common among recovered Covid-19 patients
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Uber launches feature in US to let customers reserve rides in advance
Uber is seeing only a slow recovery of its US rides business amid coronavirus pandemic
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Apple launches MacBook laptops powered by its own computing chips
MacBook Air will retail for $999, same as its predecessor, and have up to twice the battery life
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Trump's 'I WON' tweet inch away from breaking record
Trump's tweet has garnered huge support from his Twitter followers with over 883,200 retweets and 1.1 million likes













































