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With school trips cancelled, are interactive online museum tours the answer?
Taking a virtual school trip might be just the thing to break the tedium of home-learning and fire up inquiring minds
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Burnley fume over Gabby Logan jibe amid takeover complaints
Amazon's Premier League coverage has drawn a rebuke from Burnley after comments made about new American owners, ALK Capital
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Uber to support vaccination drive with free trips to mass vaccination centres across England
Uber is offering 28,000 free trips to mass vaccination centres in the UK
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Facebook bans ads for gun accessories ahead of Biden inauguration
Facebook is also blocking events being held near the White House and the US Capitol
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Facebook bans ads for gun accessories ahead of Biden inauguration
Facebook is also blocking events being held near the White House and the US Capitol
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Facebook must boost oversight powers in wake of Trump ban
Facebook users whose posts are suppressed by algorithms should be allowed the right to appeal, says human rights consultancy
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Unions turn up heat on Silicon Valley in fight for transparency
Big tech workers are looking to unionise as concerns mount over their employers ethics
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Inside the fringes of the Internet providing safe haven for American extremism
The politically incorrect have been driven to the dangerous depths of the internet where there is no policing
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WhatsApp delays privacy changes amid outrage over 'personal data grab'
The Facebook-owned secure chat app will push back its deadline for users to accept new terms that have sparked an exodus to rival messengers
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Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp and Facebook: which is better?
An update to WhatsApp's privacy policy has seen user numbers for its competitors surge. But which app best protects your privacy?
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Twitter clampdown will go beyond Trump ban, Jack Dorsey tells staff
The tech founder said the campaign against accounts that incite violence would not be going away "any time soon"
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Big advertisers slash Facebook spending after Capitol attack
Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks and Nestle are among the companies that cut their spending on Facebook and Instagram by almost $10m
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With school trips cancelled, are interactive online museum tours the answer?
Taking a virtual school trip might be just the thing to break the tedium of home-learning and fire up inquiring minds
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Unions turn up heat on Silicon Valley in fight for transparency
Big tech workers are looking to unionise as concerns mount over their employers ethics
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'Google Translate for pets': AI wants to understand your cat
Father of the internet Vint Cerf reignites mission to use the internet to talk with animals
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Google's Blob Opera project allows music lovers to hit high notes
Artificial Intelligence and the voices of four trained opera singers give everyone the chance to embark on an operatic adventure
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Amazon repeatedly warned Parler about posts promoting violence
The tech giant insisted that it made the right call to follow Apple and Google and boot the social media app from their servers
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Apple and Amazon dump Parler
Decisions follow Google, which removed the social media app favoured by Trump supporters from its Google Play store on Friday
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Wikipedia has transformed knowledge – so why is it still looked down on?
It's the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia, the flawed but good faith resource that now defends us from 'fake news' Trumpist oblivion
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Google staff emails under scrutiny amid union push
Google said that guidelines exist to support the healthy and open discussion has always been a part of its culture
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The best TV shows on Amazon Prime UK to watch during lockdown
From The Boys to The Grand Tour, these are the top shows to see us through the latest stint of sofa slumping, running from A-Z
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Amazon repeatedly warned Parler about posts promoting violence
The tech giant insisted that it made the right call to follow Apple and Google and boot the social media app from their servers
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Parler struggles to stay in business after Big Tech companies sever ties
Chief executive John Matze says 'every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us'
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Apple and Amazon dump Parler
Decisions follow Google, which removed the social media app favoured by Trump supporters from its Google Play store on Friday
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The roadblocks in the way of Apple’s driverless ambitions
The iPhone-maker has long maintained an interest in autonomous vehicles, but experts doubt we will see an ’iCar‘ soon
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Apple and Amazon dump Parler
Decisions follow Google, which removed the social media app favoured by Trump supporters from its Google Play store on Friday
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Wikipedia has transformed knowledge – so why is it still looked down on?
It's the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia, the flawed but good faith resource that now defends us from 'fake news' Trumpist oblivion
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Trump supporters vow to leave Twitter as #Twexit gathers pace
Pro-Trump users promise an exodus from the platform to coincide with Joe Biden's inauguration
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Big advertisers slash Facebook spending after Capitol attack
Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks and Nestle are among the companies that cut their spending on Facebook and Instagram by almost $10m
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Bill Gates and Blackstone join forces for £3bn Signature Aviation bid
The private-equity firm and Gates’s Cascade Investment are in discussions with Signature Aviation on a $5.17-a-share cash offer
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Microsoft reveals that SolarWinds hackers accessed its source code
The Seattle-based software giant said it had uncovered a new twist in the months-long cyber-attack targeting the US government
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SolarWinds: How Russian hackers dealt the US its worst cyberspace defeat in a decade
The cyber attack hit 18,000 businesses and has caused internal chaos for the US government
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Facebook to stop scanning for child abuse images under EU privacy rules
Tech companies split on compliance as Microsoft, Google and Roblox say EU scanning will continue
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Algorithms searching for child abuse could be banned under new EU privacy rules
Talks held last week failed to agree an exemption for scanning technologies used by tech giants to scan private messages
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Donald Trump criticised for silence over 'declaration of war' cyber-hack
Russia suspected of carrying out hack, which is believed to have gone undetected for nine months
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Microsoft warns UK companies were targeted by SolarWinds hackers
Microsoft says it has identified more than 40 customers that had installed the compromised SolarWinds Orion software
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Fears over possible fault in up to 10,000 Tesla cars on British roads amid US recall
The UK road safety group is understood to have assessed the issue but had not deemed it a safety risk
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Tesla balks at touch screen recall, US agency takes action
US safety regulators say the large touch screens in certain models are defective and pose a safety risk
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Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos to become world's richest person
Tesla shares have soared more than 700pc over the past 12 months
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Electric hearses available for eco-conscious grieving relatives who want 'green' funerals
The first battery-powered funeral car offered by a British company costs more than £150,000 and is based on a Tesla model
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WhatsApp delays privacy changes amid outrage over 'personal data grab'
The Facebook-owned secure chat app will push back its deadline for users to accept new terms that have sparked an exodus to rival messengers
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Google's Blob Opera project allows music lovers to hit high notes
Artificial Intelligence and the voices of four trained opera singers give everyone the chance to embark on an operatic adventure
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Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp and Facebook: which is better?
An update to WhatsApp's privacy policy has seen user numbers for its competitors surge. But which app best protects your privacy?
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Twitter clampdown will go beyond Trump ban, Jack Dorsey tells staff
The tech founder said the campaign against accounts that incite violence would not be going away "any time soon"
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Fortnite maker Epic Games takes Apple and Google to Competition Tribunal
The company, which has sued Apple and Google in the US, is taking its case to the UK watchdog
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Big advertisers slash Facebook spending after Capitol attack
Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks and Nestle are among the companies that cut their spending on Facebook and Instagram by almost $10m
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Telegram founder says WhatsApp exodus is 'greatest digital migration in history'
Facebook-owned WhatsApp faces boycott amid privacy concerns and free speech debate
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Fears over possible fault in up to 10,000 Tesla cars on British roads amid US recall
The UK road safety group is understood to have assessed the issue but had not deemed it a safety risk