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Wikipedia says 'vandal' defaced site with Nazi flag

A spokesperson said: "Over the years, a number of tools and processes have been developed to quickly spot and revert vandalism on the site. Most vandalism on Wikipedia is corrected within five minutes, as we saw today."

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'Lab-leak' theory used to divert attention, says U.S. scholar

A virologist tests wastewater in Paris, France, to detect the presence of the COVID-19 virus, July 22, 2020. /CFP The U.S. lab-leak theory is a distraction from the country's history of far wo

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Amazon aims to inject new life into Alexa with release of developer tools and features

Amazon is giving its Alexa voice platform a shot in the arm after seeing further declines in skill growth over the past year, indicating lagging interest from third-party voice app developers. At the

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TikTok launches Jump, a third-party integration tool

TikTok announced today the launch of its Jump program, which expands the app’s potential for third-party integrations. TikTok began beta-testing this feature in February with Whisk, a recipe-sha

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How to land the top spot in Google search with featured snippets in 2021

Search is changing. Most search engines now don’t just bring up a page of 10 search results and two ads at the top when you type in a query. Instead, Google search queries can bring up a whole r

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Apple and Google pressed in antitrust hearing on whether app stores share data with product development teams

In today’s antitrust hearing in the U.S. Senate, Apple and Google representatives were questioned on whether they have a “strict firewall” or other internal policies in place that pr

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Google now gives you more information about the sites in your search results

Google regularly tweaks its search results pages and tries out new designs. It’s not that often, though, that it adds new features to those results, so when it does, it’s worth paying atte

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A fair go for China

Editot's note: Sam Kelly is an Australia-based observer with an interest in Chinese history, culture and economics. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGT

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MLCommons debuts with public 86,000-hour speech dataset for AI researchers

If you want to make a machine learning system, you need data for it, but that data isn’t always easy to come by. MLCommons aims to unite disparate companies and organizations in the creation of

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Santa is working from ho-ho-home this Christmas

01:19 Even Santa will be working from home this year. The coronavirus pandemic has put a damper on many people's holiday festivities and fewer children will be visiting Santa at the ma

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Golden raises $14.5M to build a wiki-style database of tech knowledge

Golden is announcing that it has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, with the firm’s co-founder Marc Andreessen joining the star

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Google Maps gets a COVID-19 layer

Google today announced an update to Google Maps that will bring a new COVID-19 layer to the service to help you better understand the number of cases in a given area. With the pandemic continuing to

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Google says it’s eliminating Autocomplete suggestions that target candidates or voting

Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google says it’s taken a number of steps to improve the quality of information that it highlights across its various search and news products.Google exe

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QAnon: The bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory growing ahead of the US election

It has been described as a right-wing conspiracy theory, an emerging religious movement, and even as a domestic terrorism threat in one FBI bulletin - but what exactly is QAnon?Put simply, QAnon is a

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Gorilla Glass Victus can survive a two-meter drop and is set to arrive on a Samsung device soon

You might not know Gorilla Glass by name, but odds are pretty good you own at least one device sporting Corning’s chemically strengthened glass composite. It’s been a ubiquitous feature of consumer pr

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OpenAI makes an all-purpose API for its text-based AI capabilities

If you’ve ever wanted to try out OpenAI’s vaunted machine learning toolset, it just got a lot easier. The company has released an API that lets developers call its AI tools in on “v

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The ‘Wikipedia of COVID-19’ has launched a crowdfunding drive to keep going

At the end of March a coalition of grassroots UK tech initiatives came together to co-ordinate the key groups of tech industry people supporting the UK’s response to the Coronavirus. The Code4Covid.or