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Media companies scramble after judge rules they are liable for Facebook comments – Australian judge finds media companies have a responsibility to ensure defamatory remarks are not posted on social media
Medicalising everyday life doesn't help anyone's mental health (2019)
G20 nations triple coal power subsidies despite climate crisis
'Hell is coming': week-long heatwave begins across Europe
Deepfakes aren’t a tech problem. They’re a power problem – By framing deepfakes as a tech problem we allow Silicon Valley to evade responsibility for its symbiotic relationship with fake news
How to live forever: meet the extreme life-extensionists
Great Pacific Garbage Patch: giant plastic trap put to sea again – Floating boom is designed to trap 1.8 trillion items of plastic without harming marine life – but broke apart last time
Cool running: supermarket fridges could help power UK – Supermarket freezer aisles could soon help power the National Grid after trials found that hundreds of thousands of fridges could provide a nationwide “virtual battery”.
The murky business of crystal mining
Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old
Alarming and unnecessary: Facebook’s new cryptocurrency must be resisted – The tech giant has big ambitions for its digital currency Libra. Privacy and regulation are just the start of the problems
Tim Cook: ‘If you’ve built a chaos factory, you can’t dodge responsibility for the chaos’ – Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Silicon Valley to take responsibility for the damage it has caused in a recent commencement speech at Stanford
Facebook usage falling after privacy scandals, data suggests
Himalayan glacier melting doubled since 2000, spy satellites show
Young adults have less to spend on non-essentials, study says
Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted | Environment | The Guardian
You saw me covered in blood on a bus. But do you get outraged about all homophobia? | Chris | Opinion | The Guardian
How thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities
The mindfulness conspiracy | Life and style | The Guardian
Hong Kong’s digital battle: tech that helped protesters now used against them – Wary of being tracked and targeted like activists inside China, protesters are keeping a low profile online
UK rights advocate co-owns firm whose spyware is ‘used to target dissidents’
Hidden Figures Way: Nasa renames street to honor black female mathematicians – Headquarters street renamed for pioneering African American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson
Facebook emails seem to show Zuckerberg knew of privacy issues, report claims
World’s biggest sovereign wealth fund to ditch fossil fuels – Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global gets go ahead to divest $13bn of investments
Earliest known signs of cannabis smoking unearthed in China
Doctored video of sinister Mark Zuckerberg puts Facebook to the test
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Scottish Power to build vast battery to improve wind energy supply
Google made $4.7 billion from news sites in 2018, study claims.
‘I believed I didn't have the right kind of brain for science’
Facial recognition tech is arsenic in the water of democracy, says Liberty – Human rights group calls on England and Wales to ban police use of AFR in public space
New rules give households right to sell solar power back to energy firms – Government also wants to encourage people with rooftop panels to install batteries
America's rural radio stations are vanishing
A Google employee who helped organize walkouts has resigned, alleges she was the target of a campaign of retaliation designed to intimidate and dissuade others
‘Surveillance capitalism’: critic urges Toronto to abandon smart city project – Project with Google’s Sidewalk Labs comes under increasing scrutiny amid concerns over privacy and data harvesting
Helsinki's solution to homelessness
Elton John: 'I am a European – not a stupid, imperialist English idiot' | Music | The Guardian
BlackBerry Messenger shuts down as owners blame lack of users
Uber to ban riders with low ratings
US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom' | Business | The Guardian
David Cameron takes job with US artificial intelligence firm
Netflix and Amazon made £1.1B in revenue from ~17.7M UK subscribers in 2018, while streaming services of UK's four main commercial broadcasters made ~£530M
Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Netflix raises prices in UK by £1 to £8.99 for its standard plan and by £2 to £11.99 for a premium plan; the price for a basic plan remains unchanged at £5.99
Techmeme · 4 weeks ago