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by Dominic Rushe in Washington on (#3WQ3)
FCC says ‘we listened and we learned’, and passes strict broadband rules that represent ‘a red-letter day for internet freedom’ Continue reading...
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by Alex Hern on (#3WK6)
Using technology instead of paper ballots reduces costs and could boost voter turnout – but questions remain over security and possible electoral fraud
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#3W8J)
Social network adds a report button that flags suicidal content for review by a dedicated team to try and helpFacebook has rolled out new tools in the US that aim to help prevent suicides, allowing users to report content for review and encourage the vulnerable to get help.The tools build on a reporting feature implemented in 2011, which passed details to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the US, and the Samaritans in the UK. The new initiative involves a trained team, more resources and features to help those at risk of suicide or self-harm.Related: Samaritans pulls ‘suicide watch’ Radar app over privacy concerns Continue reading...
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by Associated Press in Flagstaff, Arizona on (#3W62)
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by Stuart Dredge on (#3W25)
Dick Costolo promises to change culture around harassment: ‘We’re going to get a lot more aggressive about it, and it’s going to start right now’By its own boss’s admission, Twitter “suck at dealing with abuse and trollsâ€. Now Dick Costolo has shed a little more light on how the company plans to change that.Twitter is planning to shift “the cost of dealing with harassment†on to the people accused of that harassment, not on the people who endure it, said Costolo in an interview with the New York Times.Related: Twitter unveils new system for reporting abuse Continue reading...
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by Julia Powles on (#3W16)
US regulators are voting on whether to enshrine the openness of the internet, and the outcome is likely to influence policy worldwideNet neutrality is the principle of making sure that your internet service provider doesn’t make it easier for you to access one service over another – the Guardian over the Telegraph, say – or otherwise distorting your use of internet services just because someone dropped a few extra quid in their pocket.
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#3W07)
Search giant consolidates its European businesses to deal with increasing political ill-will, regulatory scrutiny and competition from rivalsGoogle is changing the the structure of its European business as it anticipates further regulatory scrutiny across the continent.
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by Dominic Rushe in Washington on (#3VW6)
Top US regulator likely to announce plan to exert greatest power over cable industry in victory for supporters of free and open internetThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) looks set to pass strict new rules to govern broadband internet in the US on Thursday, following one of the most intense – and bizarre – lobbying battles Washington has ever seen.The FCC’s five commissioners will meet on Thursday morning to approve a plan to regulate broadband like a public utility, giving the regulator the greatest power over the cable industry it has had since the internet went mainstream.Related: Net neutrality: FCC votes on the future of the internet – liveRelated: Net neutrality: Republicans to strike back against Obama's 'internet grab'Related: Net neutrality: what's the latest controversy? Your questions answered Continue reading...
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by Jack Schofield on (#3VVA)
Anthony has a new Lenovo laptop and wonders if he should be concerned. Jack Schofield says that’s the tip of the iceberg and everyone should be worried.When I started working abroad about three months ago, my company provided me with a new Lenovo laptop. Should I be worried? AnthonyEveryone should be worried, but not for the obvious reason.
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by Alex Hern on (#3VT5)
The hacking collective took over the Lenovo site for several hours on Wednesday, redirecting users to a slideshow of bored teenagersLenovo, the PC maker at the centre of the Superfish controversy, suffered its own security breach on Wednesday when its main website was defaced, redirecting users to a slideshow of pictures of bored-looking teens (apparently the hackers themselves) set to the song Breaking Free from High School Musical.Clicking on the slideshow sends users to the Twitter account of hacking collective the Lizard Squad, while viewing the source of the page reveals a note reading “the new and improved rebranded Lenovo website featuring Ryan King and Rory Andrew Godfrey†– two people previously named by security reporter Brian Krebs as being members of the group.Related: How can I find and remove Superfish and similar malware?Expect more lizard mischief soon.Related: What will happen to the Lizard Squad hackers? Continue reading...
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by Presented by Aleks Krotoski with Lewis Dartnell, J on (#3VP1)
As the right to be forgotten grows in importance online we ask what about the right to be remembered Continue reading...
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by Keith Stuart on (#3VND)
Come to the Guardian office and talk games with our regular contributors, including Andy Kelly, Rich Stanton and Philippa Warr Continue reading...
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by Stuart Dredge on (#3VHV)
Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp talks about the power of digital curation and what the app really does: ‘It’s really this great tool for discovering creative ideas and saving them for later’“Pinterest is not a social network. Really. It’s not about your friends! The last thing I need is another messaging app, y’know?†says Evan Sharp, thumping his fist on the table for emphasis. “It’s really this different kind of unique thing.â€Sharp should know: he co-founded it. And since its launch in 2009, Pinterest has reached a large audience – 47.1 million active users in the US alone this year according to eMarketer – raising a startling $764m of funding along the way.Related: Pinterest promises 'smarter search' including manly pins for menNo eyeball-frying uglyfest
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#3TM8)
Gemalto, the world’s largest Sim card manufacturer, denies claims intelligence services hacked into its servers and stole the keys to billions of mobile phonesThe firm allegedly hacked by the NSA and GCHQ has stated that it cannot find any evidence that the US and UK security services breached and stole the encryption keys billions of Sim cards.The alleged hack was revealed by documents from the NSA files provided by Edward Snowden, which detailed attacks on Gemalto – the world’s largest Sim card manufacturer – which allegedly saw them steal encryption keys that allowed them to secretly monitor voice calls and data from billions of mobile phones around the world.Related: Mobile phones hacked: can the NSA and GCHQ listen to all our phone calls? Continue reading...
by Hannah Devlin on (#3TF4)
‘Agent’ hailed as first step towards true AI as it gets adept at playing 49 retro computer games and comes up with its own winning strategiesGoogle scientists have developed the first computer program capable of learning a wide variety of tasks independently, in what has been hailed as a significant step towards true artificial intelligence.The same program, or “agent†as its creators call it, learnt to play 49 different retro computer games, and came up with its own strategies for winning. In the future, the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.Related: Those classic Atari games were harder than you think Continue reading...
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by Rebecca Smithers, Consumer affairs correspondent on (#3T62)
Customers using the bank’s Pingit app will be able to exchange payments using just their Twitter handle Continue reading...
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#3T44)
Chinese-owned mobile company launches a cheap 4G smartphone with water-resistant coating and the latest version of Android 5 Lollipop Continue reading...
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by Chris Johnston and agencies on (#3SXJ)
Seven servers being used to control millions of devices infected by Ramnit - including many in Britain – have been shut down overnightA cybercrime ring that used millions of hacked computers in Britain to steal banking information has been shut down by European police and technology companies.Europol’s European cybercrime centre coordinated the operation from its headquarters in The Hague, targeting the so-called Ramnit botnet – a network of computers infected with malware.Related: Hackers steal $1bn in series of online bank thefts says report Continue reading...
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by Associated Press in London on (#3SVA)
Austrians have injured limbs amputated, then nerves and muscles transplanted from leg to arm are used to control prosthetic hands Continue reading...
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by Zoe Margolis on (#3SVF)
Google’s decision to force blogs hosting adult content into becoming invitation-only services is a deliberate and ill-considered sabotage on free speech and connectivity, writes Zoe Margolis, of sex blog Girl With A One-Track MindGoogle has steadily been cutting down on adult-oriented material hosted on Blogger, its blogging platform, over the last few years. Previously, bloggers could freely post “images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity,†albeit behind an warning screen that Blogger implemented in 2013.Then, Blogger said “censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expressionâ€, so bloggers rightly assumed that they would be free to continue to post adult content.
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by Keith Stuart on (#3SQW)
Activision is rumoured to be reviving its hugely popular music game series, with an announcement planned for this year’s E3 convention in LA in June
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by Keith Stuart on (#3SNE)
The movie studio has invested in the developer of the Walking Dead games to develop a new crossover concept featuring both TV and game elementsThere have been myriad attempts to marry television and games into “holistic transmedia experiences†– and the results have often been as bad as the phrase itself.All that could be about to change following a decision by film and television studio Lionsgate to make a “significant†investment in Telltale Games, the developer of episodic adventure games based on The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones.Related: Minecraft: Story Mode spin-off game announced by Mojang Continue reading...
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by Keith Stuart on (#3SMK)
The place to talk about games and other things that matterIt’s Wednesday! And don’t forget, there are still tickets available to our ‘meet the game writers’ event on March 4. Come along and ask why I never get Chatterbox ready on time! Continue reading...
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by Dugald Baird on (#3SHT)
Watchdog rules that Kazam advert featuring ‘sexually suggestive’ scenes was likely to cause serious offence to some viewers Continue reading...
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by Staff and agencies on (#3SG2)
Jury in Texas orders Apple to pay hundreds of millions to Smartflash for infringing three patents relating to iTunesApple has been ordered to pay more than $530m after a federal jury in Texas found its iTunes software infringed three patents owned by a patent licensing company called Smartflash.Although Smartflash had been asking for $852m in damages, the verdict handed down on Tuesday night was still a blow to Apple.
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by Stuart Dredge on (#3SDB)
Claims marketers of Mole Detective and MelApp ‘lacked adequate evidence’ showing their apps could detect melanoma symptomsCan you really detect the melanoma type of skin cancer by taking a photograph of a mole using your smartphone? The US Federal Trade Commission’s latest action provides strong encouragement to be wary of such claims.The FTC has reached settlements with two firms marketing melanoma detection apps MelApp and Mole Detective, and plans to file claims against another company that did not agree to settle.Related: FTC in talks with Apple over health data protection – Open Thread Continue reading...
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by Guardian Staff on (#3S92)
Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, discusses his early career and the pivotal moment when a leap of faith led him into the world of competitive expeditions.
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by Guardian Staff on (#3S91)
Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock discusses her life long obsession with the cosmos and how the Clangers inspired the first steps on her career path.
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by Associated Press on (#3RZY)
Move by internet companies follows posting of nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence on sites without her permissionSocial networking and news site Reddit has said it will remove photos, videos and links with explicit content if the person in the image has not given permission for it to be posted.Google, meanwhile, is going to ban most nude photos and video from publicly accessible sites on its Blogger service.
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by Charles Arthur on (#3RQV)
Mobile phone maker’s non-business market will slump below 1 million this year, according to two research firms who foresee a bleak future for the brand Continue reading...
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by Reuters in Washington on (#3RMR)
State Department and FBI announce $3m reward for information about Evgeniy Bogachev, accused of running computer attack network Continue reading...
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by Tom McCarthy on (#3RG1)
Hanging out with Jay Z, dancing in Argentina and questionably billing public funds for flights on private jets, the Republican congressman has done it all Continue reading...
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by Rupert Neate in New York on (#3RBM)
Ellen Pao claims Kleiner Perkins excluded her from meetings in first high-profile case of its kind not to have been settled out of court before trial Continue reading...
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by Dominic Rushe in Washington on (#3R07)
On Thursday, the FCC votes on whether to accept tough new rules to regulate the internet. Republicans aren’t happy – and they’re aiming to win back the debate Continue reading...
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#3QM4)
Pebble promises seven-day battery life for its new device, and hits $500k funding goal 17 minutes after launch of new crowdfunding campaignPebble, the company that ignited the smartwatch market with its $10.3m (£6.7m) crowdfunding campaign in 2012, has returned to Kickstarter with a new device called Pebble Time.The new version has a colour e-ink screen, a claimed battery life of seven days, and is 20% thinner than Pebble’s previous smartwatches. It can also track its wearer’s activity with a built-in accelerometer like a fitness band.Related: 2015 gears up to be the year of wearable tech Continue reading...
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by Rhik Samadder on (#3QJA)
Emoji characters are a fun way to express yourself, as long as you’re white. A new update from Apple promises greater variety, but our world is wider than six skin tones and a smiling turd Continue reading...
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by Ashifa Kassam in Madrid on (#3QBV)
Interior ministry announces detention of two suspects in north African enclave, and two in Barcelona and Girona, who targeted women using social media Continue reading...
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by Jay Allen on (#3Q90)
The latest title in the multimillion selling shooter series swaps soldiers and terrorists for cops and robbers. But is the fantasy now too close for comfort?A helicopter swoops over a palatial mansion as armed gunmen burst in, jamming cartridges into their shotguns, preparing for an epic firefight. Pretty soon bullets are tearing up the interior as bodies crash through glass walls, and grenades pass the camera in slow-motion arcs. Quickly, the action cuts to a high-speed car chase, with vehicles plummeting along LA’s iconic storm drains. The shooting never stops.This is Battlefield: Hardline, the latest game in Electronic Arts’ long-running series of frenetic first-person shooters. As in previous instalments, players team up online to capture control points or carry packages through a gauntlet of enemy fire. But this time something’s different.Related: Battlefield: Hardline – hands-on with the cops and robbers shooter Continue reading...
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by Alex Hern on (#3Q7A)
Blogger, the company’s long-running blogging service, is cracking down on explicit material with just one month’s notice for affected usersGoogle is banning public explicit photos and videos from its blogging service Blogger, and giving affected users just one month to comply.The new rules require any blog with “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video†to take them down by 23 March, or the blog will be made private by Google. A private blog can only be seen by the owner or admins of the blog, and people who the owner has shared the blog with. Continue reading...
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#3Q63)
Car company announces 100-car public trial in partnership with Swedish authorities which will see members of the public behind the wheelVolvo will test 100 of its autonomous cars on public roads driven in normal traffic by members of the public by 2017.
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by Oliver Wainwright on (#3Q3V)
From bridges shaped like mandolins to funicular railways and twinkling pink loop-the-loops, architects unveil their ambitious schemes for a new crossing between Pimlico and Nine Elms in London. Here are the most eye-catching Continue reading...
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by Samuel Gibbs on (#3Q3W)
Leading the march of cleaning machines into our homes, the Roomba 880 deserves its title as king of the robotic vacuums – but is it worth the price tag?In science fiction, robots are usually attempting to take over the world and kill us all. In real life, it turns out they can be rather useful for cleaning the lounge carpet. Terminator – of dust!The iRobot Roomba 880 is the current king of the robotic vacuums, but is it any good and how does it compare to a standard vacuum?
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by Danny Bradbury on (#3Q2G)
We often click and dismiss the warnings our computers give us, rather than acting on them. Worryingly, the reasons may be hardwired into our brainsWe may rely on computers, but we don’t notice what they’re telling us about online threats. Google recently had to redesign the security warnings in its Chrome web browser because most people were ignoring them. What’s even more worrying is that our brains may be hardwired to do so.Like most browsers, when Chrome visits a web site it checks the site’s online proof of identity, called an SSL certificate. This certificate come from a third party authority, which performs a background check on the site before issuing it.Related: From Goblin Panda to Flying Kitten: the latest online security threatsRelated: Security researcher publishes 10m usernames and passwords onlineRelated: How you could become a victim of cybercrime in 2015 Continue reading...
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by Ben Lovejoy on (#3Q06)
In criminal proceedings from accident claims to terrorism charges, how should the authorities strike the appropriate balance between justice and privacy?A criminal suspect can’t be forced to divulge their phone passcode, a US circuit court judge ruled in October 2014. Yet law enforcement officials can compel a suspect to provide a fingerprint – which they can then use to unlock the phone and obtain data which may prove the case against them.In an ongoing Canadian civil case, activity data from a Fitbit fitness band is being used to determine the truthfulness of an accident victim’s claim that she is less active now than before the accident. Continue reading...
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by Keith Stuart on (#3PX1)
The place to talk about games and other things that matterHey it’s Tuesday. And while I’m here, why not buy a ticket for our second ‘Meet the Guardian games writers’ evening on March 4 at the Guardian office. All the details are here. Continue reading...
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by Piyush Tewari on (#3PTN)
The Indian parliament is on the brink of passing new legislation to introduce life-saving road safety laws. SaveLIFE Foundation’s Piyush Tewari reflects on the campaign he has championed Continue reading...
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by Monica Tan on (#3PEE)
Apple releases beta updates to OS X operating system, including a redesigned emoji keyboard with long-awaited skin tone modifiersApple’s racially diverse emoji have landed, and they come in five shades of skin. Continue reading...
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by Kayla Epstein on (#3Q08)
Poitras reveals she plans to release more footage from the Citizenfour shoot and Snowden shares his biggest regret
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by Tom McCarthy in New York on (#3NZ5)
Mike Rogers mounts elaborate defense of Obama’s cybersecurity strategy and seeks to calm doubts about built-in access to companies’ data Continue reading...
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by Stuart Dredge on (#3MTQ)
Standalone app is free and ad-supported, offering a mixture of TV shows, educational videos, music and child-friendly vloggersYouTube is launching a separate app for children which will filter out inappropriate content, hide comments on videos and which will not allow them to register and log in to its service.The YouTube Kids app launches today in the US for Android and for iOS devices, and the company intends to roll it out elsewhere in the future. The app will be free and funded by advertising, although YouTube says it will be carefully screening ads to ensure they are appropriate for children.Related: This woman's thumbs are the biggest YouTube stars you've never heard ofRelated: YouTube's top 10 games channels watched 2.2bn times in January Continue reading...
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