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Google staff protest against Chinese censored search engine projectThe existence of the project, codenamed Dragonfly, was confirmed by Sundar Pichai, Google chief executive, last month. Hundreds of disgruntled employees have been voicing their opposition to the project internally within the company for some time, but this is the first public demonstration of their anger. The […]

Elon Musk buries plans to tunnel beneath Westside, Los AngelesIn December 2017, the Boring Company – a tunnelling company established by industrialist Elon Musk – proposed building a high-speed subterranean transportation system beneath LA called the “Loop”. The system would be comprised of a network of tunnels filled with pods travelling at 240km/h. Musk claimed […]

EU nationals’ settlement application system riddled with ‘technical bugs’Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal asserts that EU nationals living in the UK for five years can apply to settle in the country after the UK’s withdrawal from the bloc, allowing them to continue living and working in the country. EU nationals – excluding Irish citizens and […]

Neural networks blaze through wild animal identification and animation tasksDescribed as a significant advancement in the study and conservation of wildlife, the artificial intelligence technique has been made available as a software package known as Program R, a tool used for programming language. “The ability to rapidly identify millions of images from camera traps can […]

Zuckerberg dodges roasting by ‘International Grand Committee on Disinformation’The Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Select Committee has been engaged in a wide-ranging inquiry into disinformation and particularly its growth around democratic events over the past two years. Similar investigations are ongoing in other legislatures, including in the US. In a long-awaited hearing, the […]

US must lead world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says Bill GatesThe ‘Axios on HBO’ Gates interview was shown just two days after the Trump administration released a government report warning that damage from global warming could slash as much as 10 per cent in value off the nation’s economy by the end of the […]

‘YouTube medicine’ criticised by researchers over misleading cancer adviceCollaborating with NYU’s Perlmutter Cancer Centre, the team analysed the 150 most-viewed YouTube videos on the disease and found that 77 per cent of the videos had factual errors or biased content in either the video or its comments section. Researchers say the YouTube audience for these […]