TECH Solutions - China-US trade war: Beijing escalates tit-for-tat with Washington

Beijing has introduced tough new laws which restrict the export of "controlled items".

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TECH Solutions - How AI is helping rural African farmers

An AI-backed mobile app is helping farmers in rural areas gain critical information for their crops.

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TECH Solutions - Using tech to prevent car theft in Cameroon

A Cameroon startup is using mobile and satellite communications to track down stolen cars.

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TECH Solutions - Brushing: When Amazon packages arrive that you didn't order

Zoe Kleinman looks at the sneaky way some sellers are trying to boost their products on Amazon.

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TECH Solutions - Facebook and Google 'complicit' in Vietnam censorship

Rights group Amnesty has accused Facebook and Google of increasingly blocking criticism and dissent.

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TECH Solutions - Currys PC World apologises after gift cards wiped

The company is still assessing how many customers may have been affected.

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TECH Solutions - Zoom boosts sales forecast as pandemic drags on

The pandemic has transformed the fortunes of the video conferencing firm, once a niche tech name.

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TECH Solutions - Facebook News will pay UK outlets for content in 2021

Starting in January, Facebook will pay UK publishers for some - but not all - of their content.

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TECH Solutions - Why shops are going over to the 'dark' side

Some retailers are converting stores into mini-distribution hubs in response to Covid-19.

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TECH Solutions - DeepMind 'solves diseases science mystery' with AI

The advance is expected to accelerate research into a host of human diseases, including Covid-19.

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TECH Solutions - Microsoft files patent to record and score meetings on body language

Facial expressions and how long staff speak for would contribute to a score given to a meeting.

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TECH Solutions - Italy fines Apple €10m over iPhone water-resistance claims

Italy's competition authority has fined Apple €10m for misleading claims about the iPhone.

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TECH Solutions - Ransomware halts classes for 115,000 Baltimore pupils

Baltimore County public schools shut after a cyber-attack knocks lessons offline.

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TECH Solutions - Could Cornwall see a Lithium-ion battery revolution?

British Lithium is prospecting in the county to find economically viable seams of the element.

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TECH Solutions - Zappos ex-boss and Las Vegas entrepreneur Tony Hsieh, 46, dies after house fire

Tony Hsieh led online retailer Zappos, acquired by Amazon, and helped transform central Las Vegas.

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TECH Solutions - Utah monolith: Has the mysterious metal object disappeared?

Utah officials and images on social media suggest the shiny desert structure has been taken down.

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TECH Solutions - Huawei ban from UK 5G network brought forward

The cut-off date of September for the installation of new equipment is earlier than expected.

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TECH Solutions - The tech allowing thousands of students to sit exams at home

Machine learning is helping firms across many industries more quickly solve difficult challenges.

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TECH Solutions - Robot does yard work and security, plus other tech news

Jen Copestake looks at some of the week’s best technology news stories.

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TECH Solutions - How green and profitable are e-scooters?

Wayne Ting, chief executive of e-scooter firm Lime, says there's room for improvement.

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TECH Solutions - Algorithms: Public sector urged to be open about role in decision-making

Officials must understand limits of computer models and risks of bias, government advisory body says.

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TECH Solutions - Balenciaga to unveil new collection in video game

The fashion house is following rivals in finding innovative ways to showcase their lines.

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TECH Solutions - Manchester United will not say if they have received ransom demands over cyber attack

Manchester United will not say if they have received ransom demands over the cyber attack on the club last week that forced them to shut down their systems.

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TECH Solutions - Your data and how it is used to gain your vote

How much is really known about the data bought by political parties, and how it is used?

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TECH Solutions - Utah monolith: Internet sleuths got there, but its origins are still a mystery

The metal monolith sits deep in a desert easy to get lost in, so officials did not reveal its location.

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TECH Solutions - Why are Scottish ministers selling a superyacht?

The 25m vintage yacht was found in storage at the nationalised Ferguson shipyard.

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TECH Solutions - New rules to limit Google and Facebook's market power

The two tech giants account for around 80% of the £14bn ($18.7bn) spent on online advertising in 2019.

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TECH Solutions - The photographers capturing buildings and biscuits in 3D

Photographers are scanning landmarks in stunning 3D detail and putting them on the internet. Why?

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TECH Solutions - Rural broadband: Where has all the money gone?

Network and service providers ask why the government's £5bn for rural broadband has been slashed.

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TECH Solutions - AWS: Amazon web outage breaks vacuums and doorbells

Smart-home owners are left without service as an AWS outage breaks device functionality.

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TECH Solutions - TikTok sale deadline pushed back to December

A new plan for a sell-off of its US assets has been submitted to the US government.

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TECH Solutions - Cho Ju-bin: 40 years jail for South Korean chatroom sex abuse group leader

South Korean Cho Ju-bin ran a group which blackmailed girls into sharing sexual videos.

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TECH Solutions - The Last of Us 2 wins big at Golden Joysticks

The breakout post-apocalyptic game that's won praise for its writing and acting took home six prizes.

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TECH Solutions - Edith Whiskers: How an imaginary gran got millions of Spotify streams

The strange story of a chart topping cartoon nan and her TikTok success.

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TECH Solutions - Why don't Facebook and Apple like each other?

Relations between the two companies are at an all-time low.

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TECH Solutions - Black Friday: Why bots will beat you to in-demand gifts

Black Friday and Christmas shopping are here - but it may be harder than ever to snag what you want.

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TECH Solutions - Gigabit broadband: Watered-down plans a 'kick in the teeth'

Now the aim is to reach 85% of homes in the UK with gigabit broadband speeds by 2025.

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TECH Solutions - TikTok offers feature to avoid seizure triggers

It is designed to protect people with photosensitive epilepsy from potentially harmful content.

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TECH Solutions - Phone addiction not driven by notifications, study finds

Users check their phones automatically, like a smoker would light a cigarette, research suggests.

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TECH Solutions - YouTube suspends US news channel for Covid 'cure'

The right-wing channel has been favoured by President Trump in recent days.

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TECH Solutions - ‘My electric car is helping to power my home’

OVO Energy's trial allows some electric car owners to turn their vehicles into mini power stations.

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TECH Solutions - AliExpress: India continues to ban China apps amid standoff

The ban comes even as the two neighbours are in talks to ease border tensions.

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TECH Solutions - Bookstagram: Influencers sharing their passion for reading

Reading influencers grew in popularity during lockdown as people fell back in love with books.

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TECH Solutions - How sunshine can make the railways greener

The railways in the UK, Australia and India getting power from the sun in different ways.

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TECH Solutions - Brain imaging technology designed for babies

Scientists demonstrate a scanning device that will make it easier to study the brain.

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TECH Solutions - Elon Musk becomes world's second richest person

The tech billionaire overtakes Bill Gates after Tesla shares soar on S&P acceptance

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TECH Solutions - Streaming payments 'threaten the future of music,' says Elbow's Guy Garvey

Elbow's Guy Garvey tells MPs that "musicians can't afford to pay the rent" with streaming royalties.

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TECH Solutions - Egypt singer Mohamed Ramadan faces lawsuit over photo with Israelis

Mohamed Ramadan is accused of "insulting the Egyptian people" with the images from a Dubai party.

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TECH Solutions - Amazon Sidewalk comes to UK

The service uses other people's broadband to build a neighbourhood network for its devices.

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TECH Solutions - How to 'disappear' on Happiness Avenue in Beijing

A group of volunteers trying to avoid surveillance cameras took more than two hours to walk 1km.

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TECH Solutions - Director Tristram Shapeero apologises to Lukas Gage after unmuted comments

Tristram Shapeero has apologised publicly to Lukas Gage after making comments about his apartment.

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TECH Solutions - Huawei ban: UK networks breaking new law face big fines

The Telecommunications Security Bill bans the involvement of Huawei in the UK's 5G mobile network.

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TECH Solutions - Disabled children's names revealed in Bristol City Council email

The email revealing hundreds of names of children was sent by Bristol City Council.

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TECH Solutions - The Lilium Jet makes a vertical take-off

The Lilium Jet makes a vertical take-off in a test flight.

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TECH Solutions - New aircraft spy opportunities amid aerospace woes

Start-up firms target regional routes around the world with quiet, cheap electric aircraft.

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TECH Solutions - Apple's security chief charged with bribery

The company's head of security is charged with planning to swap iPads for gun permits

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TECH Solutions - Snapchat Spotlight to pay users $1m a day for viral hits

Its new Spotlight feature will use an algorithm to recommend "the most engaging" posts to a user.

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TECH Solutions - TikTok star, 16, becomes first to hit 100m followers

Charli D'Amelio hit the record just days after becoming involved in a row over a video.

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TECH Solutions - PlayStation 5: Amazon investigation over missing consoles

Some users received kitchen equipment or pet food instead of their anticipated consoles.

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TECH Solutions - Smart doorbells 'easy target for hackers' study finds

UK watchdog Which says consumers are at risk of having their home networks compromised.

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TECH Solutions - Covid-19: China pushes for QR code based global travel system

QR codes - bar codes that can be read by mobile phones - have been used in China during the pandemic.

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TECH Solutions - Could these headphones give you a better night's sleep?

Lara Lewington looks at some of the latest wearable sleep devices.

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TECH Solutions - Manchester United hit by cyber attack but say fan data safe

Manchester United reveal they have been hit by a "sophisticated" cyber attack.

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TECH Solutions - Satellite to measure shape of the world's oceans

It may look like a dog house in space, but Sentinel-6 will make the most precise map of ocean height.

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TECH Solutions - Cheltenham family tragedy turned into Linda & Joan video game

A programmer is telling the story of "the worst year of his life" through an interactive video game.

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TECH Solutions - Google: Garage owner takes on tech firm over fake reviews

A car salesman says he felt "helpless" when the tech giant refused to delete damaging comments.

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TECH Solutions - The film crews being directed from a continent away

The pandemic has led to a big rise in remote filming, with directors miles away from the set.

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TECH Solutions - iPhone 12, Pixel 5 and Mate 40 Pro cameras put to the test

BBC Click puts four of the latest phones - including the iPhone 12 and Pixel 5 - to the test.

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TECH Solutions - ICYMI: Piano playing in surgery and Covid safety robots

A look at some of the stories you may have missed this week.

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TECH Solutions - Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference

Daniel Verlaan joined the meeting after the Dutch defence minister posted login details on Twitter.

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TECH Solutions - Trump Twitter ‘hack’: Dutch police question researcher

A security researcher claims he accessed Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password.

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TECH Solutions - Iconic 'Goldeneye' telescope to be shut down

The iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico is to be dismantled, officials announce.

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TECH Solutions - YouTube adds ads but won't pay all content-makers

YouTube says ads will now appear on videos from small-time creators - but they won't get a cut.

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TECH Solutions - OneWeb satellite internet company is officially reborn

Now owned jointly by UK taxpayers and an Indian conglomerate, OneWeb formally emerges from bankruptcy.

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TECH Solutions - UK's National Cyber Force comes out of the shadows

It will use offensive capabilities to counter threats from terrorists, criminals and hostile states.

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TECH Solutions - Magnetic spray could aid drug delivery and other news

Jen Copestake looks at some of the week’s best technology news stories.

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TECH Solutions - How Instagram helped me cope with cancer

Gabrielle Livingstone felt alone and scared knowing her dad was not going to get better. She set out to support others affected by parents with cancer.

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TECH Solutions - YouTube, Facebook and Twitter align to fight Covid vaccine conspiracies

Fake news about vaccines could hamper the effort to end the pandemic, says a fact-checking group.

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TECH Solutions - Pope Francis: Vatican investigates Brazilian model Instagram photo like

A Vatican spokesperson tells the Guardian newspaper the "like" did not come from the Holy See.

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TECH Solutions - Wands revive memories of the smart home dream

Lights, heating and fridges were all supposed to be internet connected, but it never really happened. Why?

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TECH Solutions - Facebook's Instagram 'failed self-harm responsibilities'

The NSPCC says a fall in takedowns of graphic content put children at greater risk.

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TECH Solutions - Buzzfeed to take over Huffington Post

The deal will bring together two of the world's most high-profile digital media firms.

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TECH Solutions - Home-testing kit for breast cancer wins Dyson prize

The device uses AI to analyse urine samples and detect disease.

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TECH Solutions - Fortnite returns to iPhones via Epic and Nvidia GeForce Now tie-up

Nvidia's game-streaming service is working on an iPhone version of Fortnite, despite the app's ban.

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TECH Solutions - Wirecard scandal: German MPs question ex-boss Braun

A criminal case is under way in Germany's biggest post-war accounting scandal.

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TECH Solutions - Paul Hollywood: Trolling Bake Off finalists 'disgusting'

The show's judge hits back at people on social media who attacked finalist Laura this week online.

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TECH Solutions - Climate change: Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?

UK officials are reportedly considering asking us to stop sending "thanks" emails - but why?

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TECH Solutions - PS5 launch day delivery delays and row over who is to blame

Huge demand for the new PlayStation, coupled with its size, means pre-orders may not arrive on time.

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TECH Solutions - ComparetheMarket fined £17.9m over competition law breach

Contracts meant getting the best home insurance deals was not as "simples" as its adverts suggest.

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TECH Solutions - How electric cars are charged and how far they go: your questions answered

We answer your top questions on electric cars - on charging, on range and on battery life.

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TECH Solutions - Apple to pay $113m to settle iPhone 'batterygate'

The lawsuit argued the iPhone-maker slowed down device performance to make users buy newer models.

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TECH Solutions - Coronavirus: Facebook accused of forcing staff back to offices

Content moderators say the tech giant is "risking lives" for profit in the pandemic.

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TECH Solutions - Backlash to Twitter's disappearing tweets feature

Twitter has said it will look into user concerns over self-deleting tweets.

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TECH Solutions - MeowTalk: Alexa developer’s app to translate cat’s miaow

The technology listens to miaows and includes feline emotions like happy, sad or hungry.

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TECH Solutions - Apple slashes commission fees to developers on its App Store

Those who earn less than $1m this year will see their commission charge halved in 2021.

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TECH Solutions - Endangered species: Gunshot detection technology deployed

The project uses audio recordings and AI to identify where a gun was fired from.

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TECH Solutions - Coronavirus: Head of NHS Test and Trace Dido Harding self-isolating

Baroness Harding tweeted she was alerted by the NHS app to stay at home.

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TECH Solutions - Vincent Reffet: French 'Jetman' dies in training accident

Vincent Reffet was part of the Jetman Dubai team, and performed airborne stunts around the world.

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TECH Solutions - Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin hits three-year high as investors jump in

The digital currency is close to an all-time record although experts warn about its volatility.

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TECH Solutions - Gaming and friendship apps: How I beat loneliness

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat speaks to young people about how they got through it.

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TECH Solutions - Ban on new petrol and diesel cars in UK from 2030 under PM's green plan

The PM confirms he is bringing the ban forward as he sets out his "green industrial revolution".

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TECH Solutions - Trump fires cyber-security agency chief

Chris Krebs' reportedly angered Trump by running a website debunking election misinformation.

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TECH Solutions - Can tech really keep our teenagers safe online?

Smart technology using artificial intelligence is looking to keep youngsters safe online.

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TECH Solutions - Facebook's Zuckerberg and Twitter's Dorsey answer addiction question

A US senator asks Facebook and Twitter's chief executives under oath if their platforms are addictive.

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TECH Solutions - Facebook pet sales warning over kittens and puppies

Lockdown has increased demand for pets, which has lead to sellers advertising on the platform.

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TECH Solutions - Rupert Grint breaks Sir David Attenborough's Instagram record

Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint racked up a million followers in just over four hours.

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TECH Solutions - Shazam reveals most searched-for songs of all time

Fans have used the app to identify hits by Sia, Ed Sheeran and Tones and I - but who came out on top?

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TECH Solutions - Facebook and Twitter's chiefs get grilled again

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey face questions about how their platforms handled the US election.

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TECH Solutions - Amazon launches online pharmacy service

It will sell prescription drugs initially in the US, with discounts for Prime users.

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TECH Solutions - TikTok adds tougher parental controls

The app lets adults limit what children can search for and prevent strangers from seeing activity.

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TECH Solutions - Shoppers warned against buying cheap electronics online

Some third-party sellers on Amazon, Wish and eBay are selling "extremely dangerous items".

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TECH Solutions - Huawei sells youth brand over tech restrictions

The Chinese communications firm said Honor had been under pressure to find suppliers.

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TECH Solutions - Elon Musk's personal fortune rockets after eventful week

The billionaire has had an eventful few days and now Tesla is to be included in a major US index.

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TECH Solutions - Radio France Internationale publishes obituaries of people still alive

Public radio station RFI says a "technical problem" meant the obituaries were published prematurely.

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TECH Solutions - Airbnb plans public share sale despite pandemic

The filing by the home rental web site offers a closer look at the loss-making firm's finances.

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TECH Solutions - Zuckerberg and Dorsey to be quizzed by Senate following Biden vote victory

Facebook and Twitter's chiefs are being quizzed by senators again, and it's Democrats they now fear.

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TECH Solutions - Entertainers find new ways to pay the bills

With live venues closed and much filming on hold, celebrities are finding new ways to entertain.

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TECH Solutions - NHS Covid-19 app suffers 'blue screen' glitch

Many users report the iPhone version of the contact-tracing app gets "stuck" on launch.

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TECH Solutions - Kamala Harris: Facebook removes racist posts about US vice-president-elect

Democrats have criticised the social network for not doing enough to remove hate speech.

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TECH Solutions - Coronavirus: How to host a Christmas party on Zoom

Businesses have planned online events including wreath-making and murder mystery parties.

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TECH Solutions - Capcom hack: Up to 350,000 people's information stolen

Up to 350,000 customers and staff could have had their information stolen in a ransomware attack.

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TECH Solutions - How AI is helping lung cancer patients in Covid-19 era

A ground breaking study using artificial intelligence is taking place at a London hospital.

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TECH Solutions - Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake news online with new law says Labour

New laws should make social media companies take down false posts about vaccines, Labour says.

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TECH Solutions - Would UK be ready for a new petrol car ban in 2030?

The BBC understands the government is set to announce it will bring 2040's ban forward by a decade.

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TECH Solutions - Video games 'good for well-being' says University of Oxford study

Gamers who played titles for longer reported feeling happier than those who did not.

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TECH Solutions - Inventors design high-tech helmets for Covid protection

For two months, Yezin Al-Qaysi has been riding the Toronto subway wearing a huge black "mad helmet".

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TECH Solutions - Amazon apology over Northern Ireland error

The company told a customer in NI he could not watch a programme as it was only available in the UK.

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TECH Solutions - Fibre broadband: The cost of delivering in rural areas

The eye-watering cost of delivering a fibre network to rural areas.

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TECH Solutions - New EU drive to remove extremist web content

The EU aims for a deal this year to force the immediate removal of "terrorism propaganda" online.

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TECH Solutions - Fraudsters 'targeting Christmas online shoppers'

Buyers of games consoles, bicycles and clothing may be at a higher risk of encountering a scam, banks say.

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TECH Solutions - How To Get 1000 Subscribers on Youtube Fast || Get More Subscriber on Youtube Channel

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TECH Solutions - Social media: How can we protect its youngest users?

A psychologist says parents need to provide their children with "digital resilience".

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TECH Solutions - How critical is the weather for the SpaceX launch?

Nasa and SpaceX were due to send astronauts to the ISS on Saturday but the weather's changed their plans.

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TECH Solutions - Coronavirus: North Korea and Russia hackers 'targeting vaccine'

Tech giant Microsoft says it has detected cyber-attacks aimed at vaccine researchers.

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Technical Solutions - Tech Talks #1286 - TikTok India Return, Twitter Ban?, YouTube Rewind 2020, Jio Speed, Galaxy A42 5G

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TECH Solutions - YouTube cancels Rewind video amid pandemic

The video platform says it would be wrong to produce its annual Rewind video during the pandemic.

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TECH Solutions - Kickstarter replies to complaints from seven years ago

The crowdfunding site accidentally replied to reports from 2013, opening old wounds.

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TECH Solutions - Call of Duty: A balancing act between old and new

The boss of Call of Duty speaks to Newsbeat about the new game and its Warzone integration.

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TECH Solutions - Robots to take on more supermarket tasks

Grocery and technology firm Ocado Group is buying two robotics firms, to boost the automation of online grocery orders.

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TECH Solutions - Coronavirus: The gamers spending thousands on loot boxes

An expert warns young people have been hit by "the perfect storm" of the coronavirus pandemic.

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TECH Solutions - Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over payment data breach

More than nine million people may have had their details stolen in the 2018 cyber-attack.

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Tech Solutions -FICA wants 'clear global solutions' to tackle contract breaches in sanctioned cricket

Body calls on ICC and its member boards to show "willingness to prioritise and act on" the matter

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TECH Solutions - Robot mimics human eye contact and other tech news

BBC Click’s Omar Mehtab looks at some of the best technology news stories.

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TECH Solutions - TikTok lives to see another day in US

US Commerce Department halts ban on Chinese owned company.

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TECH Solutions - Twitter labeled 300,000 US election tweets — around 0.2%

Just over a week after the U.S. elections, Twitter has offered a breakdown of some of its efforts to label misleading tweets. The site says that from October 27 to November 11, it labeled some 300,000 tweets as part of its Civic Integrity Policy. That amounts to around 0.2% of the total number of election-related tweets sent during that two-week period.

Of course, not all Twitter warnings are created equal. Only 456 of those included a warning that covered the text and limited user engagement, disabling retweets, replies and likes. That specific warning did go a ways toward limited engagement, with around three-fourths of those who encountered the tweets seeing the obscured texts (by clicking through the warning). Quote tweets for those so labeled decreased by around 29%, according to Twitter’s figures.

The president of the United States received a disproportionate number of those labels, as The New York Times notes that just over a third of Trump’s tweets between November 3 and 6 were hit with such a warning. The end of the election (insofar as the election has actually ended, I suppose) appears to have slowed the site’s response time somewhat, though Trump continues to get flagged, as he continues to devote a majority of his feed to disputing the election results confirmed by nearly every major news outlet.

His latest tweet as of this writing has been labeled disputed, but not hidden, as Trump repeats claims against voting machine maker, Dominion. “We also want to be very clear that we do not see our job as done,” Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety Lead Vijaya Gadde and Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour wrote. “Our work here continues and our teams are learning and improving how we address these challenges.”

YouTube removes ads from, but won’t pull, ‘Trump Won’ video following backlash

Twitter and other social media sites were subject to intense scrutiny following the 2016 election for the roles the platforms played in the spread of misinformation. Twitter sought to address the issue by tweaking recommendations and retweets, as well as individually labeling tweets that violate its policies.

Earlier today, YouTube defended its decision to keep controversial election-related videos, noting, “Like other companies, we’re allowing these videos because discussion of election results & the process of counting votes is allowed on YT. These videos are not being surfaced or recommended in any prominent way.”

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Netflix’s latest experiment is a TikTok-like feed of funny videos

Netflix already borrowed the concept of short-form video “Stories” from social apps like Snapchat and Instagram for its Previews feature back in 2018. Now, the company is looking to the full-screen vertical video feed, popularized by TikTok, for further inspiration. With its latest experiment, Fast Laughs, Netflix is offering a new feed of short-form comedy clips drawn from its full catalog.

The feed includes clips from both originals and licensed programming, Netflix says. It also includes video clips from the existing Netflix social channel, “Netflix Is A Joke,” which today runs clips, longer videos and other social content across YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Fast Laughs resembles TikTok in the sense that it’s swiped through vertically, offers full-screen videos and places its engagement buttons on the right side. But it’s not trying to become a place to waste time while being entertained.

Like many of Netflix’s experiments, the goal with the Fast Laughs feed is to help users discover something new to watch.

Instead of liking and commenting on videos, as you would in a social video app, the feed is designed to encourage users to add shows to their Netflix watch list for later viewing. In this sense, it’s serving a similar purpose to Netflix’s “Previews” feature, which helps users discover shows by watching clips and trailers from popular and newly released programming.

As users scroll through the new Fast Laughs feed, they’ll encounter a wide range of comedy clips — like a clip from a Kevin Hart stand-up special or a funny bit from “The Office,” for example. The clips will also range in length anywhere from 15 to 45 seconds.

In addition to adding clips to Netflix’s “My List” feature, users can also react to clips with a laughing emoji button, share the clip with friends across social media, or tap a “More” button to see other titles related to the clip you’re viewing.

Here’s the full intro explaining this new Netflix feature… pic.twitter.com/T7OriLUHd8

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 12, 2020

The feature was first spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, based in the U.K. In his app, Fast Laughs appeared in front of the row of Previews, where it was introduced with text that said “New!”

Netflix confirmed to TechCrunch the experiment had been tested with a small number of users earlier this year, but has recently started rolling out to a wider group this month — including users in the U.K., the U.S. and other select markets.

It’s currently available to a subset of Netflix users with adult profiles or other profiles without parental controls on iOS devices only. However, users don’t need to be opted in to experiments nor do they need to be on a beta version of the Netflix app to see the feature. It’s more of a standard A/B test, Netflix says.

And because it’s a test, users may see slightly different versions of the same feature. The product may also evolve over time, in response to user feedback.

Netflix is hardly the first to “borrow” the TikTok format for its own app. Social media platforms, like Instagram and Snapchat, have also launched their own TikTok rivals in recent months.

But Netflix isn’t a direct competitor with TikTok — except to the extent that any mobile app competes for users’ time and attention, as there are only so many hours in a day.

Instead, the new feed is more of an acknowledgment that the TikTok format of a full-screen vertical video feed with quick engagement buttons on the side is becoming a default style of sorts for presenting entertaining content.

“We’re always looking for new ways to improve the Netflix experience,” a Netflix spokesperson said, confirming the experiment. “A lot of our members love comedy so we thought this would be an exciting new way to help them discover new shows and enjoy classic scenes. We experiment with these types of tests in different countries and for different periods of time — and only make them broadly available if people find them useful,” they added.

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TECH Solutions - Facebook’s Snapchat-like ‘Vanish Mode’ feature arrives on Messenger and Instagram

Facebook today announced its new Snapchat-like feature for disappearing messaging, Vanish Mode, is arriving on Messenger and Instagram. The feature, meant for more casual conversations, allows users to set chats to automatically delete after the message is seen and the chat is closed.

In Vanish Mode, Messenger and Instagram users can send text chats, emoji, pictures, GIFs, voice messages, and stickers, which will disappear after they’ve been seen and users leave the chat, Facebook explains.

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However, unlike on Snapchat, Vanish Mode is not a default setting. Instead, users are meant to enable it from within an existing chat by swiping up on their mobile device’s screen while in the chat.

Upon first launch, a screen will appear explaining how Vanish Mode works. It also notes that users will be alerted if someone takes a screenshot of the conversation — as Snapchat does.

For safety purposes, Facebook supports blocking and reporting in Vanish Mode. If a user in the conversation reports a chat, the disappearing messages will be included for up to 1 hour after they disappear, the company explains. This allows Facebook to review the reported conversation and take action, if need be.

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Vanish Mode is also an opt in experience — meaning you can can choose whether to enter a Vanish Mode chat. And it only works with people you’re connected to, Facebook says.

Once in Vanish Mode, the screen goes dark to signal the change. To exit Vanish Mode, you tap on the “Turn Off Vanish Mode” button at the top of the screen.

Facebook’s plans for Vanish mode were announced earlier as part of its overhaul of the Instagram messaging experience in September. This update had included the ability for Instagram and Messenger users to communicate across apps, along with other “fun” features.

As a part of that update, Instagram received many Messenger-inspired additions — like the ability to change the chat color or react with any emoji, for example. But though announced, the Vanish Mode feature was then said to be coming “soon.”

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To be clear, Vanish Mode is not designed to cater to those looking to secure an entire conversation. Though the feature is end-to-end encrypted, Facebook already offers a fully end-to-end encrypted conversations feature, Secret Conversations. Instead, Vanish Mode’s main focus is to chip away at yet another advantage held by rival Snapchat.

That’s part for the course for Facebook these days. The company already copied the Stories format popularlized Snapchat, and now that product alone on each of its platforms is used by more people (500M+) than all of Snapchat. (249M).

To get Vanish Mode, and other recent updates to the Instagram messaging experience, users have to opt-in to the upgrade. Essentially, these new features are being used as lures to get Instagram users to agree to the upgrade.

The upgrade then locks them further inside the Facebook universe as they then also receive the ability to communicate cross-platform with users on Facebook. Eventually, WhatsApp may become a part of this cross-platform communication strategy, as well.

Once upgraded, people can use just one messaging apps to reach friends and family on two of the largest social networks in the world. And with additions like Vanish Mode, they won’t miss out on things found on competitors’ apps. Meanwhile, with Reels on Instagram, Facebook aims to retain TikTok users, too.

Facebook says Vanish Mode is launching starting today on Messenger in the U.S. Canada, Mexico, Peru and Bangladesh, and on Instagram (soon) in Canada, Argentina, Chile, Peru and a few other countries. It will soon roll out to other countries across both platforms, the company says.

 

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Udemy and altMBA co-founders return to edtech with a new, stealthy business

In 2009, Udemy co-founder Gagan Biyani tried to convince people to learn online through live classes. But what he discovered instead was that everyone wanted an online repository of content that allowed them to learn at their own pace, whenever and wherever. So, he canned his idea and Udemy created what is now called a massive open online course provider, or MOOC.

In the years since, Biyani was let go from Udemy, started a 200-person food company, shut that down, took a sabbatical, and is now returning to the seedling he left behind in 2009: live, online courses.

Today, Biyani tells TechCrunch that he is teaming up with Wes Kao, the co-founder of AltMBA, an online cohort-based leadership program, to start an edtech company that combines both of their experiences into one focus: live, cohort-based learning. The duo grew up as friends in the same hometown, but only recently reconnected over education once Biyani returned from sabbatical. Kao’s experience building an online course from scratch, with an over 95% completion rate, was validation that the format worked. And soon enough, they incorporated a company together.

The company will focus on cohort-based learning, mixing live and asynchronous components. As it’s still in early stealth, the founders said it doesn’t have a name yet. Instead of a company site, they have a Notion landing page.

8 edtech investors talk re-skilling, digital universities, ISAs and other post-pandemic trends

Despite those missing details, what Biyani did say is that the startup’s main focus is creating a community where anyone can start their own course. Kao says that creating a course requires over a dozen people behind the scenes — teacher assistants, community moderators and the process is essentially “an entire production.” With the startup, she wants to democratize that operation.

“I see it as a way to help more traders and experts be able to share their knowledge,” she said. “And take away the question marks on how to build community.”

The company from the start will focus on the back-end production of helping teachers, but eventually create a marketplace to allow students to see a directory of classes.

“It should be as easy as building a Substack,” Biyani said, referring to the popular newsletter service. Similar to Substack, the company will only make money if the instructor, or creator, does. It takes a chunk of each student’s subscription cost as revenue.

The company is entering a crowded space. Yesterday, CampusWire announced that it has pivoted to start offering build-your-own courses to experienced professors. MasterClass allows celebrities to teach classes, Teachable allows anyone to create their own course, and the list continues.

But Biyani views their biggest competitor as teachers who have already built courses without a third-party service. The company is planning to bring those creators onto their platform by offering ways to manage their customer base.

Can learning pods scale, or are they widening edtech’s digital divide?

Ultimately, the market will only be won over by the startup that has the best strategy, product, and teacher pool. Based on their stealthy vision, the duo has raised $4.3 million in a round led by First Round Capital. Other investors include Naval Ravikant, Sahil Lavingia, Li Jin, Arlan Hamilton and co-founders from Lambda School, Outschool, Superhuman, and Udemy.

It’s a stacked term-sheet for a company in the early stages, suggesting that that edtech’s boom is still very much upon us. Lavingia says that he committed right away even though he didn’t use the product.

“Gagan’s name was enough for me,” he said. “I think I followed him on Twitter a year or two ago and i’d back anything he does just based on what he shares.”

Backstage Capital’s Hamilton said that Kao has been within the Backstage mentor network for a while, and added that “there’s a perfect storm for Wes and Gagan to execute within.”

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TECH Solutions - AirBnb glitch cancels trips after deactivating user accounts

A system error during "routine maintenance" cancelled bookings for hosts and users.

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TECH Solutions - Facebook loses final appeal in defamation takedown case, must remove same and similar hate posts globally

Austria’s Supreme Court has dismissed Facebook’s appeal in a long running speech takedown case — ruling it must remove references to defamatory comments made about a local politician worldwide for as long as the injunction lasts.

The Austrian Supreme Court has now delivered its final judgment in the #Glawischnig-Piesczek case. #Facebook has to remove the defamatory comment and any comments that are identical or equivalent in meaning worldwide.https://t.co/zhbYRr4DnG https://t.co/Y2W5SWRgO6

— Clara Rauchegger (@ClaraRauchegger) November 12, 2020

We’ve reached out to Facebook for comment on the ruling.

Green Party politician Eva Glawischnig successfully sued the social media giant seeking removal of defamatory comments made about her by a user of its platform after Facebook had refused to take down the abusive postings — which referred to her as a “lousy traitor”, a “corrupt tramp” and a member of a “fascist party”. 

After a preliminary injunction in 2016, Glawischnig won local removal of the defamatory postings the next year but continued her legal fight — pushing for similar postings to be removed and take downs to also be global.

Questions were referred up to the EU’s Court of Justice. And in a key judgement last year the CJEU decided platforms can be instructed to hunt for and remove illegal speech worldwide without falling foul of European rules that preclude platforms from being saddled with a “general content monitoring obligation”. Today’s Austrian Supreme Court ruling flows naturally from that.

Europe’s top court sets new line on policing illegal speech online

Austrian newspaper Der Standard reports that the court confirmed the injunction applies worldwide, both to identical postings or those that carry the same essential meaning as the original defamatory posting.

It said the Austrian court argues that EU Member States and civil courts can require platforms like Facebook to monitor content in “specific cases” — such as when a court has identified user content as unlawful and “specific information” about it — in order to prevent content that’s been judged to be illegal from being reproduced and shared by another user of the network at a later point in time with the overarching aim of preventing future violations.

The case has important implications for the limitations of online speech.

Regional lawmakers are also working on updating digital liability regulations. Commission lawmakers have said they want to force platforms to take more responsibility for the content they fence and monetize — fuelled by concerns about the impact of online hate speech, terrorist content and divisive disinformation.

A longstanding EU rule, prohibiting Member States from putting a general content monitoring obligation on platforms, limits how they can be forced to censor speech. But the CJEU ruling has opened the door to bounded monitoring of speech — in instances where it’s been judged to be illegal — and that in turn may influence the policy substance of the Digital Services Act which the Commission is due to publish in draft early next month.

In a reaction to last year’s CJEU ruling, Facebook argued it “opens the door to obligations being imposed on internet companies to proactively monitor content and then interpret if it is ‘equivalent’ to content that has been found to be illegal”.

“In order to get this right national courts will have to set out very clear definitions on what ‘identical’ and ‘equivalent’ means in practice. We hope the courts take a proportionate and measured approach, to avoid having a chilling effect on freedom of expression,” it added.

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Tech Solutions - Virus From PlayStore Apps, PUBG Comeback, Samsung 1080 Processor, Oppo 125W Charging - SKN 109

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TECH Solutions - No, Ticketmaster won't force you to have a Covid vaccine

The company denies reports claiming fans will need proof of a vaccine before attending a gig.

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Technical Solutions - Tech Talks #1285 - PUBG Mobile INDIA Launch, S21 Ultra S pen, Redmi K40 Leaks, YouTube Down, X60

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TECH Solutions - Instagram redesign puts Reels and Shop tabs on the home screen

Instagram is putting its TikTok competitor Reels front-and-center in a redesigned version of its app by giving it the center position on its new navigation bar. The update, arriving today, also replaces the Activity tab (heart icon) with the Shop tab, following a test that had changed this aspect of the app’s home screen earlier this summer.

In the redesigned app, both the Compose button and the Activity tab have been relocated to the top-right of the home screen, while the center middle button now belongs to Reels.

Before, Reels videos were mixed in with other photo and video content on the Instagram Explore page, though Instagram this fall began to experiment with different layouts (see below).

This led to some early complaints from users looking for Reels in the app, who had said it was harder to find, the company says.

We’re starting to test different versions of Instagram’s home screen – when you open the app you’ll soon see a Reels tab and a Shop tab in one of these three layouts. pic.twitter.com/WLmjAwYwFW

— Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) September 9, 2020

The redesign, which makes Reels the main button in the app, is an aggressive attempt on Instagram’s part to direct users to its short-form video feed, which has so far seen only a lukewarm reception from reviewers. Critics have said Reels lacks competitive features, contributes to Instagram’s bloat, feels stale and features a lot of recycled TikTok content. At best, it’s been deemed a shameless clone.

Instagram, on the other hand, would argue that it’s still early days for its Reels short-form video in its app. And the change could encourage more creators to share their Reels, given the now high-profile position given to the product.

That said, it cannot be understated how significant it is to relocate a Compose button in an app that relies on user-generated content. That Instagram would minimize the button’s importance in this way is a testament to how much of its future relies on making Reels work.

“The way we think about this update is that we’re trying to make it really easy to use an expanded suite of products now available on Instagram, while maintaining a simplicity,” explains Instagram’s director of Product Management, Robby Stein.

Simplicity, given the wide range of products Instagram now offers, could become a challenge.

When tapped, the relocated Compose button will now take users to a redesigned Camera experience, too. Here, you can either pick photos or videos to post to your Feed, or scroll over to choose to post to your Story, Reels, or go Live. While this doesn’t replace the swipe gesture to get to the Camera, it does give all the different post formats a more equal footing.

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Next to the new Compose button is the relocated Activity button (the heart icon) and a redesigned messaging button that takes you to your Instagram DMs — which are now connected to Facebook Messenger’s universe. The messages button itself has been changed to look like the Facebook Messenger icon (for those who opted in to the new experience), and not the paper airplane icon that was previously associated with the Instagram inbox.

Another major change sees the Instagram Shop winning a home screen placement.

The company began testing the Shop tab in place of the Activity tab in July, where it would send users to an updated version of the Instagram Shop. Here, users could filter by brands they followed on Instagram or by product category. And, in many cases, users could pay for their purchase using Instagram’s own Checkout feature, which involves a selling fee.

New forecast pegs TikTok to top 1.2B monthly active users in 2021

Instagram’s push to make its app more of an online shopping destination through this and other changes comes at a critical time for the e-commerce market. The coronavirus pandemic accelerated the shift to e-commerce by at least five years, according to some analysts. That means any plans Instagram had to become a major player in online commerce were also just expedited.

Image Credits: Instagram

Combined, both moves signal a company that’s worried about the impact TikTok may have on the long-term future of its business.

The Chinese-owned rival video app has been surging in popularity around the world, and particularly with the Gen Z demographic. TikTok is now projected to top 1.2 billion monthly active users in 2021, according to a recent forecast. However, the app’s U.S. fate is still unknown due to a lack of attention from the Trump administration over the TikTok ban, as well as uncertainty as to how the incoming Biden administration will proceed to enforce it.

Today’s TikTok captures users’ attention with its short-form content, personalized “For You” feed, sizable music catalog and special effects.

Image Credits: Instagram

But there’s also potential for the app to expand beyond being just an entertainment platform, as its recent partnership with Shopify on social commerce indicates. TikTok’s video format makes for an ideal medium to showcase a brand’s products — which is why Walmart angled in on the would-be TikTok acquisition for its U.S. operations, driven by Trump’s TikTok ban.

If and when TikTok scales this side of its business in the U.S., it could win social commerce market share from both Facebook and Instagram. And its appeal on the entertainment front could make it more difficult for Reels, or anyone else, to compete.

TikTok partners with Shopify on social commerce

But Instagram has one big advantage in this battle: user data. It can inform its own personalization algorithms for Reels based on what users are doing elsewhere in its app, and even on Facebook if the user connected their account.

However, Stein says the main signals Reels personalization algorithms use are based on data coming from engagement within Reels, like whether you liked a video, for example.

Though Instagram users may not appreciate the buttons being relocated, Stein says, in tests, people came to adapt the changes. And in the end, it was necessary.

“We try to maintain simplicity by making sure that it’s clear why everything is where it is. But also, each tab has a really clear purpose to you,” says Stein. “So there’s now one clear place to go to start watching video and be entertained and, hopefully, have some fun,” he says. “There’s one really clear place to go now, when you want to post. And there’s one really clear place now you want to shop, which is really important to us.”

The changes will roll out to all markets where Reels and Shop are live, including the U.S., over the next few days.

Correction, 11/12/20 9:20 am et: We initially misspelled Robby Stein’s name. It’s spelled Robby Stein, not Robbie Stein. This has been corrected. Apologies for the error. 

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TECH Solutions - Twitter brings its Stories feature, Fleets, to Japan

Twitter’s own version of Stories, which it calls “Fleets,” have arrived in Japan. The new feature allows users to post ephemeral content that automatically disappears after 24 hours. Though Fleets previously launched in Brazil, India, Italy and South Korea, Japan is notably Twitter’s second largest market, with some estimated 51.9 million users.

It’s also second in terms of revenues, led by advertising. In Q3 2020, Japan generated $132.4 million in revenue, coming in second behind the U.S.’s $512.6 million.

Twitter can be experimental when it comes to new features — it even once developed a new way to manage threads with a public prototype, coded alongside user feedback. But not all the features it dabbles with make it to launch.

However, the further expansion of Fleets to Japan signals Twitter’s interest in the product hasn’t diminished over time. It seems it’s now only a matter of time before Fleets arrive in Twitter’s largest market, the U.S.

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That said, the U.S. may be the hardest market for Fleets to crack, as here, many users are concerned about how all social media apps are starting to look alike.

Whatever feature becomes a breakout success on one platform soon finds its way to all the others. In the early days, we saw this trend with the “feed” format, modeled after Facebook’s News Feed. The Stories format, popularized by Snapchat, came next. And now apps like Instagram and Snapchat are ripping off TikTok with their own short-form video features.

The result is that apps are losing focus on what makes them unique.

Twitter, for what it’s worth, has historically been slow to copy from other social networks. In fact, it’s one of the last to embrace Stories — a feature that’s now even on LinkedIn, of all places.

Plus, in Twitter’s case, the Stories feature may end up serving a different purpose than on other networks.

Instead of offering users a way to post content of lesser quality — posts that didn’t deserve a more prominent spot in the feed, that is — Fleets may encourage users who haven’t felt comfortable with the platform’s more public nature to begin posting for the first time. Or, at least, it could push users to increase their content output and engagement.

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Twitter’s Fleets work much like Stories on other platforms. With a tap on the “+” (plus) button, users can post text, photos, GIFs or videos. Meanwhile, viewers use gestures to navigate the Fleets posted by others. The Stories sit at the top of the app’s home screen, also like on other platforms.

Twitter tells TechCrunch all users in Japan should have Fleets available on their accounts soon, but couldn’t share a time frame for a U.S. launch.

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TECH Solutions - Facebook extends its temporary ban on political ads for another month

The election is settled, but the nation is far from it.

Before Election Day in the U.S., Facebook hit pause on all political and social issue ads. At the time, the company made it clear that the precautionary measure designed to turn off one potential faucet of misinformation would be temporary, but it couldn’t say how long the policy would remain in effect.

Now, Facebook says the temporary ban will continue for at least another month. The decision to extend the special policy was implemented Wednesday, four days after Joe Biden’s election victory — and four days after it became clear that Trump had no intention of conceding a lost election.

“The temporary pause for ads about politics and social issues in the US continues to be in place as part of our ongoing efforts to protect the election,” the company wrote in an update to its previous announcement. “Advertisers can expect this to last another month, though there may be an opportunity to resume these ads sooner.”

Facebook’s ongoing political ad pause throws a wrench into things in Georgia, where two January runoff elections will decide which party will control the Senate heading into President-Elect Biden’s administration. A friendly Senate is essential for many of Biden’s biggest proposals, including a $2 trillion climate package that could reshape the American economy and push the country toward an electrified future that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels.

Over the last few days, a shocking number of Republicans have “humored” the president’s refusal to transfer power in spite of an unambiguous election call and Biden’s decisive win in Pennsylvania, which cut off any potential paths to victory for his opponent. The Trump campaign’s last-ditch flurry of legal challenges have presented little of substance so far, and they might ultimately be more about dividing a nation and sowing doubt than prevailing in court.

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TECH Solutions - Roblox gamers must pay to die with an 'oof'

It follows a copyright dispute with sound engineer who originally created the sound for another game.

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TECH Solutions - Covid in Scotland: Teachers in Aberdeen asked to switch off app in schools

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MTV partners with Unrd to create a mobile version of ‘Ghosted: Love Gone Missing’

Mobile storytelling startup Unrd is making its first move into adapting existing intellectual property — specifically “Ghosted: Love Gone Missing,” an MTV reality series about ghosting (the dating practice, not anything supernatural).

Until now, Unrd (pronounced “unread”) has created original crime, horror and romance stories that are told through characters’ phones, through content like text messages, video footage and more.

Starting next week, on November 16, the app will feature a version of “Ghosted” that — unlike the TV show — is scripted, as users explore characters’ text messages, photos and video calls to discover why they’ve been ghosted. They’ll even get to vote on whether the characters should “ghost” or “make up” before they see the stories’ ending (their votes won’t affect the outcome).

MTV Head of Digital Rory Brown told me that this was a “very close collaboration” between MTV and the Unrd team, led by CEO Shib Hussain.

“This is the first time they’ve partnered with an already established IP — but that didn’t scare us at all, to be that first media partner that they worked with,” Brown said. “There was a strong point of view on our side of the house how to keep it true to the existed format, while the Unrd team helped us reimagine it, and our collaboration met in the middle of that Venn diagram.”

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He also argued that while interactivity can be “a bit of a buzzword in the industry,” Unrd isn’t focusing on “interactivity for interactivity’s sake.” Instead, the aim is to create “a more immersive experience for the user.”

Unrd will feature three stories tied to “Ghosted,” each of them unfolding over six days.

“The key thing that we do different is this notion of real time,” Hussain said. “You can’t just binge it and consume every story in one day. You’ve got to wait with the character for the next message. That’s more immersive, and it also builds that tension and excitement amongst users as well.”

Brown noted that these Unrd stories are launching during a break in the second season of “Ghosted.” The hope is that they’ll keep existing fans engaged while creating new fans as well.

“At MTV, we’re always going to keep looking at ways to test the elasticity of IP,” he said. “I think Unrd is one way to do that. We’re talking to other partners, but Shib and his team have been fantastic to work with and we’d love to keep the relationship going.”

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