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The upper section of the arena is seen partially empty as US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the BOK Center on June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Fire Department spokesperson Andy Little said the city fire marshals office reported a crowd of just less than 6,200 in the arena, which could seat 19,000, and where a crowd of 100,000 people were expected on the streets. (Photo | AFP)

TikTok teens taking up mantle of subverting Trump campaign scupper...

The tech-savvy teens mobilised online and reserved tickets for Trump's Tulsa campaign rally with no intention of...

22 Jun 2020 11:50 AM GMT

$Not just for the Black Lives Matter protests, George Soros is also being blamed by conspiracy theorists for the pandemic. In this image, a man holds a sign with the images of Hungarian-US billionaire George Soros (L) and Argentinas President Alberto Fernandez, reading \Virus = expropriation of companies\ during a demonstration called by small businessmen affected by the governments mandatory quarantine imposed for more than 13 weeks, to protest against the quarantine and the expropriation of the Vicentin agro-industrial company on the Obelisk in Buenos Aires, June 20, 2020. (Photo | AFP)$ Technology

Liberal billionaire George Soros the target of conspiracy theories...

The Hungarian-American, who is Jewish, has also been the subject of anti-Semitic attacks and conspiracy theories for...

21 Jun 2020 4:11 PM GMT

Netgear Armor is especially useful at this time when the sensitive work of most companies is being done by employees from home.

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Netgear offers cyber security for an annual subscription with its...

Netgear says it can protect networked devices against Trojans, ransomware, spyware and blocks malicious links in emails...

21 Jun 2020 1:13 PM GMT

A small grocery store (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Naman Bhagat)

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Tech This Week | Encouraging small sellers to get online must be a...

One of the best ways to make that happen is to provide the right incentives to MSME sellers to go online

21 Jun 2020 11:29 AM GMT

The twice-a-year fair usually draws more than 180,000 foreign buyers and 60,000 Chinese vendors to the southern city of Guangzhou. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Gzdavidwong)

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Massive Chinese trade fair goes online, but buyers stay away

The Canton Trade Fair, founded in 1957, was for decades Chinese exporters' main link to foreign buyers.

19 Jun 2020 5:07 PM GMT

Video starts recording if one tells their iPhone Hey Siri, Im getting pulled over, so if police misbehaves, it would be caught on camera. (Photo | Flickr - Mark Guim)

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Hey Siri' tech trick lets people pulled over by cops in US record...

Siri police shortcut was getting traction on social media after software developer Robert Peterson tweeted a link to...

19 Jun 2020 4:36 PM GMT

YouTube uses metadata and other signals from videos to make decisions about filtering content or placing money-making advertising based on race, according to the suit. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Ajay Suresh)

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Youtube accused of racial discrimination, sued by black video artists

The suit says the company uses racial, identity and viewpoint profiling and filtering tools to restrict, censor, and...

19 Jun 2020 2:46 PM GMT

Google increased its free advertising initiative by $200 million, with the added funding intended for non-profits tackling pressing issues like COVID-19 response and recoveryespecially in hard-hit developing economiesand fighting racial injustice around the world, Google Ad Grants head Michelle Hurtado said in a blog post.

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Anti-racism and COVID non-profits will get Google ads worth USD 1...

Since 2003, Ad Grants has provided non-profits with up to $10,000 per month in free ads on internet search results to...

19 Jun 2020 1:23 PM GMT

$\I dont think its right for private companies to censor politicians and the news,\ Facebooks Jewish CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said defending his stand to accept political ads that told lies to garner votes. But Facebook has removed a campaign ad by President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that featured an upside-down red triangle, a symbol once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners, communists and others in concentration camps alongside Jewish prisoners.$ Technology

Use of Nazi symbol touches a nerve with Zuckerberg, but he's fine with...

Trump campaign ad removed for featuring Nazi-era symbol used to denote political prisoners in concentration camps...

19 Jun 2020 12:21 PM GMT

$Facial recognition technology has a dark side, with it integrated into Chinas massive public surveillance system and its social credit experiment where even minor infractions of public norms can result in sanctions.$ Technology

What's the deal with facial recognition software and how it's...

Although firms like IBM have said it will no longer supply face scan software to police, several other players making...

18 Jun 2020 5:07 PM GMT

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After dissing Google-Apple COVID app model, UK now embraces it

Earlier, the UK government had said the privacy controls that the app developed by the tech companies was unsuitable and...

18 Jun 2020 4:28 PM GMT

The legislation and executive order stem from claims by Trump and his allies that social media platforms are biased, despite his own large following on Twitter and other platforms. (Photo | AP)

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This US bill threatens to arm twist Twitter, Facebook into not...

The bill comes weeks after President Donald Trump accused social platforms of suppressing conservative political voices.

18 Jun 2020 2:50 PM GMT