Technology companies such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter are set to face a statutory duty to protect UK users against a broad range of harmful content or risk “heavy” fines.
Pinterest plans to raise about US$1.5-billion dollars in its initial public offering of shares. The digital scrapbooking site will put about 86.3 million shares up for sale at a price between $15 and $17 each.
On the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the sudden surge in the value of bitcoin and why cryptocurrencies are suddenly exciting again.
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Ecuador rejected WikiLeaks’s claims that it plans to expel the organisation’s founder, Julian Assange, from its London embassy, calling them “false news” aimed at undermining the dignity of the country.
Here’s something for recently emboldened crypto enthusiasts to mull: bitcoin is now at its most expensive level since just before the spectacular crash of the most widely owned digital currency.
Facebook housed dozens of cybercriminal groups that set up shop on the platform as online marketplaces to sell a variety of illegal services, including stolen credit card information, a team of researchers found.
Samsung Electronics reported its worst operating profit drop in more than four years, buffeted by falling memory chip prices and slowing smartphone sales.
Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully dropped an explosive designed to make a crater on an asteroid and collect its underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar system.
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