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Sky Glass: Company 'surprised and happy' at demand ahead of Christmas

Several software updates have improved the Sky Glass image quality since its first release, and the company's chief product officer has told Sky News it was easier to understand as an entertainment platform than as a television.

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Silicon Valley should fight its stigma against military work

Political debate at work was not encouraged when I was training to be a doctor at the LAC+USC Medical Center in the early 2000s.On the 13th-floor jail ward, we had a professional duty to care for drun

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The pandemic showed why product and brand design need to sit together

Young startups need to be great at design, not just for their products, but for their brands. The pandemic made that all harder — but lessons are being learned. We caught up with Scott Tong, a startup

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Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode

A potentially worrisome variant of the coronavirus detected in India may spread more easily. But the country is behind in doing the kind of testing needed to track it a

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Krafton announces PUBG India return under Battlegrounds Mobile title

Krafton, the South Korean video game developer of PUBG Mobile, said on Thursday that it is bringing back the popular gaming title to India under the brand name Battlegrounds Mobile India. The new titl

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High-tech hunt for scarce COVID-19 vaccines in India raises fear for fairness

Indian tech experts have written software code and designed websites to help people book scarce COVID-19 vaccinations online, raising concern about an unfair advantage

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New privacy bill would end law enforcement practice of buying data from brokers

A new bill known as the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act would seal up a loophole that intelligence and law enforcement agencies use to obtain troves of sensitive and identifying information that

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ConsenySys launches a more energy-efficient NFT ecosystem with a project from artist Damien Hirst as its first drop

The NFT craze has been an intriguing moment for digital artists who have seen seen great leaps in how tech has allowed them to create their work, but not as much progress in shifting how they profit o

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App spending to reach $270B by 2025, new forecast predicts

A new market forecast predicts app spending will reach $270 billion by the year 2025, including paid downloads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. According to data from Sensor Tower, in-app spendin

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Shortage of PS5 and Xbox consoles drives calls for scalping to be criminalised

Douglas Chapman MP has brought a private member's bill forward in the House of Commons to criminalise game console scalping.

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Trump ban won't work

An armed simpleton who invades a pizza restaurant to break up an imaginary pedophile ring he read about online is a national punchline.Thousands of armed believers launching a deadly attack on Con

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Venezuela’s Crude Exports Reportedly Plummet Amid US Sanctions, OPEC+ Deal to Ramp Up Output

In early December, the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), a 13-member cartel including Venezuela, plus its partner nations, including Russia, agr

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COVID-19 vaccine rollout may be delayed - with IT system 'failing constantly'

An official says the problem may explain why the government struggled to publish vaccination figures until Wednesday.

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Major U.S. news publishers join the Coalition for App Fairness advocacy group to fight the ‘Apple tax’

A group of major U.S. news publishers have joined the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), the advocacy group pushing for increased regulation over app stores and fair treatment for all developers. The p

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Online retailer Very cancels orders from scalpers for 'over 1,000 consoles'

The practice, which is not illegal, involves buying stock which is in limited supply to resell it at a profit.

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NASA discovers water on the surface of the sunlit portion of the Moon

NASA has made a groundbreaking discovery – confirming the presence of water on the surface of Moon, in the area that is exposed to sunlight. Previously, we knew that water was present as water ice on

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Banks aren’t as stupid as enterprise AI and fintech entrepreneurs think

Announcements like Selina Finance’s $53 million raise and another $64.7 million raise the next day for a different banking startup spark enterprise artificial intelligence and fintech evangelists to r