Major websites are turning to automatic systems to moderate content as they tell their staff to work from home.
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are all relying on artificial intelligence and automated tools to find problematic material on their platforms. The tech giants ad...
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Apple still hasn't announced the Powerbeats 4, but one Walmart store doesn't care to wait any longer and decided to start selling the earbuds before they're official.
9to5Mac reports that Twitter user @eddiezus spotted the product in Rochester, New York. He didn't purchase a unit, but the shared photograph (seen above) reveals...
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It's the first pandemic of the smartphone era - and that means governments have access to new ways of tracking the spread of Covid-19.
On this week's Tech Tent, we find out about the apps that are monitoring people with the virus and look at whether they pose a long-term threat to civil liberties.
In South Korea, the authorities ha...
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Apple's annual showcase, the Worldwide Developers Conference, has been cancelled in favour of an online-only event.
"The current health situation has required that...
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Google's parent company Alphabet has asked its North American staff to work from home to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus.
Last week the tech giant sent a memo to staff recommending that employees in Washington st...
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Microsoft has said it was part of a team that dismantled an international network of zombie bots.
The network call Necurs infected over nine million computers and one of the world's largest botnets. Necurs was responsible for multiple criminal scams including stealing personal information and sending fake pharmaceutical emails. Cyber-criminals use botnets to remotely take over internet-connected devices and in...
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Amazon is offering its till-less technology to other High Street shops, just over two years after launching it via its own Go Grocery chain.
Go Grocery shoppers scan a smartphone app as they arrive, allowing them to pay via their main Amazon accounts. It has now adapted its Just Walk Out system for other retailers so shoppers register a payment card on entry and are automatically billed as they leave....
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Calling AMD’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen laptop CPUs a “watershed” moment for the company, AMD VP of computing and graphics Rick Bergman hinted that at least one model of laptop could hit “18 hours” of runtime.
Bergman dropped the figure on Thursday during a financial analyst br...
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You'll receive the latest features and security enhancements on Windows 10. Microsoft focuses on that version as it's the most recent, and yet there are people who still use Windows 7 despite its outdated, unsupported status. Now, there's data suggesting just how little interest these Windows 7 users have in upgrading to anythin...
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