FEBRUARY 16, 2025
JD Vance described the Online Safety Act as a ‘backslide away from conscience rights’ - REUTERS/Leah Millis
Hundreds of people have been charged with online “speech crimes” amid claims from the Trump administration that civil liberties are under threat in Britain.
Almost 300 people have been charged with spreading illegal “fake news” or sending “threatening communications” since the Online...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Privacy campaigners have called Google's new rules on tracking people online "a blatant disregard for user privacy."
Changes which come in on Sunday permit so-called "fingerprinting", which allows online advertisers to collect more data about users including their IP addresses and information about their devices.
Google says this data is already widely used by other companies, and it continues...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Apple is finally bringing RCS to iPhones with iOS 18.
Apple released iOS 18.3 in January, and that update brought some bug fixes to all iPhones. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, that update introduced Rich Communication Services support in Messages to your iPhone.
With RCS messaging, you can enjoy features like typing indicators and the "Delivered" status message while messaging...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
The RBI defended the collection of financial data of banking users by credit rating companies to prepare credit scores and submitted before the Supreme Court that it was precisely the purpose behind Parliament enacting the Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act, 2005 and companies do not need consent from the borrowers for this.
Petitioner Surya Prakash, a Bengaluru-based entrepreneur...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
If you think by having night owl behaviour consistently you are doing good to your health, you are wrong. A large scale study where over 70,000 people were examined for over 8 long years has revealed something very alarming.
The findings of the study were published in the Psychiatry Research journal.
The study findings recommend sleeping by 1am and...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
A man looks out to sea from a commemorative building known locally as ‘The Tunnel’ near the ‘Point of No Return’ where enslaved people were shipped from the port at Badagry, Nigeria, 21 June 2019. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters
magine this: a continent scarred by centuries of violence and exploitation, now standing united to demand justice. This weekend, the...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
My father, aged 51, currently has no investments. He owns two properties and has one ongoing loan of Rs 20 lakhs. He has his money saved in the Provident Fund. His annual income is Rs 10 lakhs. Recently, a bank representative proposed a scheme whereby he would need to invest Rs 2 lakhs per year for the...
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board seal hangs inside a hearing room at the agency's headquarters in Washington, DC. - Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images/File
The National Labor Relations Board, the independent agency that is supposed to enforce labor laws for most American workers, has been essentially shut down after President Donald Trump fired one of its board members, leaving it...
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Trump’s executive order would upend more than a century of court precedent around the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship for almost anyone born on US soil, regardless of immigration status. - Photographer: Win McNamee/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s executive order to end so-called birthright citizenship for babies of undocumented immigrants was blocked indefinitely by a...
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Dougal Main and Beth Nichol working on the distributed quantum computer.
Scientist claim they achieved a massive breakthrough in teleportation by beaming data between quantum computers.
Researchers at the University of Oxford successfully teleported logical gates - the basic components of a computer algorithm - between two quantum processors separated by more than six feet.
Using particles of light (or photons), the...
