Facebook Building a Version of Instagram For Children Under 13
By: Guardian March 19, 2021 Facebook is considering launching a version of its popular photo social media platform, Instagram, for children under the age of 13. BuzzFeed News first reported Facebook announced in an internal company post that the company would begin building a version of Instagram for people under the age of […]
Bonus Reforms ‘Biggest Shake-Up Of UK Corporate Governance In Years’
By: The Guardian March 18, 2021 The government plans to make it easier to claw back bonuses paid to executives of failed companies in what is being billed as the biggest shake-up of Britain’s corporate governance rules in decades, with ministers vowing to target negligent auditors and rogue directors. Part of a sweeping […]
Scientists Create Living Entities In The Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos
By: NPR March 17, 2021 For decades, science has been trying to unlock the mysteries of how a single cell becomes a fully formed human being and what goes wrong to cause genetic diseases, miscarriages and infertility. Now, scientists have created living entities in their labs that resemble human embryos; the results of […]
China’s Tech Giants Test Way Around Apple’s New Privacy Rules
By: Financial Times March 16, 2021 Some of China’s biggest technology companies, including ByteDance and Tencent, are testing a tool to bypass Apple’s new privacy rules and continue tracking iPhone users without their consent to serve them targeted mobile advertisements. Apple is expected in the coming weeks to roll out changes it announced […]
Biden Administration Convenes Government, Private Sector Groups to Respond to Microsoft Vulnerabilities
By: The Hill March 17, 2021 White House officials said Wednesday that the Biden administration has formally stood up a task force of government and private sector groups as it works to investigate and respond to the recently uncovered cyber espionage incident involving a Microsoft email application. Press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed in a statement […]
MEPs Back Law to Hold Firms to Account for Environment and Human Rights Abuses
By: The Guardian March 10, 2021 Big majority in EU parliament vote for corporate due diligence along entire supply chains, which will include UK businesses The EU took a step closer to holding companies to account for environmental damage and human rights abuses committed by their subsidiaries and suppliers overseas, with a vote […]
Using AI-Powered Spacecraft Is The Only Way To Clean Up Space
By: City AM March 17, 2021 In 1978 NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler proposed a theoretical scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit due to space pollution becomes high enough that collisions between objects starts to cause a chain reaction whereby each collision generates more space debris, which then increases […]
Facebook’s Long-Awaited Content ‘Supreme Court’ Has Arrived. It’s A Clever Sham
By: The Guardian March 17, 2021 In October, Facebook unveiled its long-awaited “oversight board” – a special, semi-independent body, staffed mainly by experts on free speech and constitutional law, with the authority to make decisions about controversial content posted on Facebook’s platform. Sometimes described as Facebook’s “supreme court”, the oversight board has been met, in the legal […]
Uber To Pay UK Drivers Minimum Wage, Holiday Pay and Pension
By: The Guardian March 16, 2021 Move follows supreme court ruling that drivers are workers but critics say they are still short-changed Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting […]