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Prevention: A person looks at a smart phone with a Facebook App logo displayed in the background in this photo illustration taken on Aug. 17, 2021, in Arlington, the United States. Last year, Facebook announced that it will add labels such as “satire page” to posts containing jokes and parody to help users differentiate them from real information.
Prevention: A person looks at a smart phone with a Facebook App logo displayed in the background in this photo illustration taken on Aug. 17, 2021, in Arlington, the United States. Last year, Facebook announced that it will add labels such as “satire page” to posts containing jokes and parody to help users differentiate them from real information.
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Meta content moderator cuts over 2,000 jobs in Spain

The move comes as Mark Zuckerberg's company has cut its third-party fact-checking in the United States and overhauled its content moderation policies.

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Musk's dreams for Starbase city in Texas hang on vote

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality.

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Elon Musk no longer joining Twitter board: CEO

Elon Musk is no longer joining the board of Twitter, the CEO of the social media company said late Sunday, in a reversal less than a week after announcing the Tesla and SpaceX chief would be appointed.

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Global ambitions drive Algerian tech start-up Yassir

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Crypto-curious corporations struggle to find right recipe

Ever since fried-chicken chain KFC's sold-out campaign four years ago, many companies have tried to harness crypto payments before abandoning their efforts, Tesla and Dell among them.

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Twitter stakeholder Elon Musk tweets ‘Is Twitter dying?’

Twitter's newest board member and largest stakeholder Elon Musk tweeted Saturday to ask if the social media network was "dying" and to call out users such as singer Justin Bieber, who are widely followed but rarely post.

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First private mission launches for International Space Station

The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space.

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AI is explaining itself to humans. And it's paying off

Explainable AI is on the rise for accurate results about consumers’ decisions, but some experts are concerned that it will do the opposite.

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South Africa's 'wild west' WhatsApp groups fuel racism, surveillance

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'TikTok is having a bad war,' say disinformation experts

The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content.

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Twitter announces Elon Musk to join board of directors

Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors a day after the Tesla boss bought a major stake in the company and became its largest shareholder.

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Earth scientists baffled by 'enigma' of quake-hit Azorean island

The island has been hit by nearly 27,000 small tremors as of Tuesday and there are fears the activity could herald a volcanic eruption for the first time since 1808, or a powerful earthquake.

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First audio recorded on Mars reveals two speeds of sound

After NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February last year, its two microphones started recording, allowing scientists to hear what it is like on the Red Planet for the first time.

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Hubble telescope spots most distant star ever seen

The newly discovered star, called "Earendel," is so far away its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, when the universe was seven percent its current age.

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Internal bug promoted problematic content on Facebook

Facebook disputed the report, which was published Thursday, saying that it "vastly overstated what this bug was because ultimately it had no meaningful, long-term impact on problematic content," according to Joe Osborne, a spokesman for parent company Meta.

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How European rulings imperil flagship Google product

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Russia bans Instagram and Facebook as 'extremist'

A Russian court banned Facebook and Instagram as "extremist", part of sweeping efforts by Moscow to crack down on social media during the conflict in Ukraine.

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Telegram booms as Russia's digital landscape shrinks

The Telegram messaging app has become a go-to platform since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite concerns over its data security and defenses against misinformation. 

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NASA insists space station unaffected by Russian war

Mark Vande Hei is due to fly to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule with cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov on March 30 after 355 days in space, a new US record.

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First war of TikTok era sees tragedy, humor and deceit

Heart-rending videos of artillery strikes are being served up alongside funny snippets such as bomb-shelter cooking tips and invasion misinformation as the war in Ukraine plays out on TikTok.

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Sanctions could cause space station to crash: Roscosmos

According to Dmitry Rogozin, the sanctions, some of which predate Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS. 

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UN slams Facebook decision on Ukraine violent messages

The policy decision from Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta on Thursday said the platforms would now allow statements like "death to Russian invaders" but not credible threats against civilians.

3 years ago
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The people who still use SMS

The short message service, or SMS, is deemed a relic from the past for some, but many still use it on a daily basis.

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Streaming service Spotify in unexplained outage

"Something's not quite right, and we're looking into it. Thanks for your reports!" the company wrote on Twitter.

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TikTok suspends posting of new videos from Russia

TikTok announced it is suspending the posting of all video content from Russia in order to keep its employees safe and comply with the country's new "fake news" regulations.

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'TechWorks' brings dreams of Jordan inventors to life

In the age of Covid, Jordanian mechanical engineer Saliba Taimeh came up with a device to sterilise everyday surface with UV rays with the help of TechWorks.

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Scientists think an old rocket just hit the Moon going 5,800 mph

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Twitter to welcome workers back in the office

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Tesla finally gets green light to start production in Germany

After getting snarled up in German red tape, US electric car pioneer Tesla got the final go-ahead from authorities Friday.

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Tech giants clamp down on Russia state-linked news

Tech firms from Facebook to TikTok and Microsoft moved to curb the reach of Russian state-linked news outlets, which stand accused of pushing misinformation about its invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian-European Mars rover 'very unlikely' to launch this year

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Services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have a unique power because of their global reach and ubiquity, but they are profit-motivated companies so a stridently principled stand can be bad for business.

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