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This inequality is a barrier to wider equality, and we know it most affects those who are already marginalized _ people in developing countries, those on low incomes, and of course, women and girls, Tim Berners-Lee said. Men remain 21 percent more likely than women to be online, and 52 percent more likely in the least developing countries. (File Photo | AP)

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says digital divide should be...

Some 3.5 billion people nearly half the world have missed out on the lifeline the internet has provided during the...

12 Jun 2020 1:24 PM GMT

CEO Tim Cook said he grew up in Alabama during the Civil Rights movement, and said the burden of change must not fall on the underrepresented. (Photo | AFP)

To make the workplace more inclusive, Apple starts USD 100 million...

The initiative's goal is to challenge systemic barriers to opportunity faced by communities of colour, particularly...

12 Jun 2020 12:06 PM GMT

$Ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd have focused attention on racial injustice in the US and how police use technology to track people. In this picture, doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in a \White Coats for Black Lives\ event in solidarity with George Floyd and other black Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California on June 11, 2020. (Photo | AFP)$ Technology

Microsoft, Amazon, IBM decision to stop face scan tech for police use...

Companies that dominate the market in the US are less well known, including the Tokyo-based NEC and European companies...

12 Jun 2020 10:56 AM GMT

The queen has always shown an interest in new technology. She sent her first email long before most people, from a computer at a British Army base in 1976. A screengrab taken from a video handout released by Buckingham Palace on June 11, 2020 shows Britains Queen Elizabeth II during a Zoom video conference call with carers. (Photo | AP)

The Queen sets apart face time for caregivers on her first official...

She logged in to mark a week of events commemorating people who care for relatives or friends with a disability, mental...

11 Jun 2020 3:57 PM GMT

The debut of Android 11s beta version was announced Wednesday in a blog post, along with video tutorials for the makers of smartphone applications on Googles YouTube service.

Google launches Android 11 beta with better privacy controls

Among its features, users will be asked if they wish to grant an app access to their location for just one time.

11 Jun 2020 3:11 PM GMT

People say prayers and light candles at a vigil along the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront in Hong Kong on June 4, 2020, to mark the 31st anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing. - Tens of thousands of people across Hong Kong lit candles and chanted democracy slogans on June 4 to commemorate Chinas deadly Tiananmen crackdown, defying a ban against gathering as tensions seethed over a planned new security law. (Photo | AFP)

Now you know why Zoom is accused of being a China stooge

Zoom accounts of activists in the US and Hong Kong have been suspended before meeting ahead of anniversary of Beijing's...

11 Jun 2020 1:49 PM GMT

Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition tech for a year till rules are framed to prevent misuse

Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition tech for a year till...

Two days ago, IBM announced that it would stop selling facial recognition tech for general purposes to prevent its use...

11 Jun 2020 1:10 PM GMT

Only 4.4% of Microsofts global workforce across all brands, and as for Amazon, while more than 60% of warehouse and delivery workers in most US cities are people of colour, only 8% of its managers in the US are black. In this picture, the beginnings of a Black Lives Matter mural begins to take shape on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo | AFP)

How diverse is the workforce in companies that are expressing...

Associated Press reviewed the diversity reports of some of the biggest companies, including tech giants Microsoft and...

11 Jun 2020 11:00 AM GMT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his decision to bypass parliament at the time, arguing lives could be lost while lawmakers debated legislation. (Photo | AFP)

Stop using state spy agency to track phones for coronavirus tracing:...

The government had controversially approved Shin Bet's use of surveillance for the Covid-19 illness as an emergency...

10 Jun 2020 4:35 PM GMT

Short-video app TikTok is set to soon sign up to the disinformation code of conduct aimed at halting the spread of disinformation linked to the virus. Twitter was also appreciated for tagging President Donald Trumps tweets as needing to be fact-checked.

What are you doing about fake news, EU asks Google, Facebook, wants...

Open up and offer more evidence that measures taken are working well, European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova...

10 Jun 2020 2:09 PM GMT

Chingari allows a user to download and upload videos, chat with friends, interact with new people, share content, and browse through feed, it said in a statement. A Chingari user gets the opportunity to get creative with their WhatsApp status, videos, audio clips, GIF stickers, and photos.

Chingari, Tiktok's Indian alternative, hits 100,000 downloads

The app is available in multiple languages including English, Hindi, Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi,...

10 Jun 2020 1:33 PM GMT

Punjab has around 20,000 active home quarantine cases as of now. Among them are people who have returned from other states and many who are symptomatic. (Representative Image)

A different sort of kada, GPS trackers on the wrist could become a...

The trackers fitted with a SIM card can be integrated with the state government's COVA app which will know if people...

10 Jun 2020 12:34 PM GMT