Amazon is being challenged by consumer watchdogs in Europe and the US over its use of manipulative “dark pattern” design to promote its Prime service.
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WhatsApp and Facebook to share users’ data outside Europe and UK
WhatsApp is forcing users to agree to sharing information with Facebook if they want to keep using the service.
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California has given the go-ahead for a commercial driverless delivery service for the first time.
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Microsoft has wrapped up a two-year experiment testing the sustainability of underwater data centers. And the results suggest our data could lie under the sea in the not too distant future.
Read moreGoogle outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline
Google applications including YouTube, email and Docs have suffered a rare service outage, with users unable to access many of the company’s services.
Read moreTech Tent: Breaking up Facebook
In a landmark lawsuit, US regulators have accused Facebook of buying up rivals in order to stifle competition.
Read moreTech Tent: Who wants a digital vaccine passport?
In the week that the UK became the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, there is, at last, a glimmer of hope that life around the world might to return to something like normal.
Read moreApple’s security chief charged with bribery
Apple’s head of global security has been charged with bribery.
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Barbados is in a position of strength even though it is only in an early phase of digital evolution.
Read moreChina sends ‘world’s first 6G’ test satellite into orbit
China has successfully launched what has been described as “the world’s first 6G satellite” into space to test the technology.
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