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Europe’s top court says net neutrality rules bar ‘zero rating’

The European Union’s top court has handed down its first decision on the bloc’s net neutrality rules — interpreting the law as precluding the use of commercial ‘zero ratingR

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ARM co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal

ARM Holdings, the UK semiconductor company, made history for the second time today, becoming the country’s biggest tech exit when Nvidia announced over the weekend that it would buy it from Soft

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Oracle boots out Microsoft and wins bid for TikTok, reports say

Enterprise provider Oracle is said to have won the bidding war for the U.S. operations of TikTok, a chase in which Microsoft was booted out earlier today. TikTok and Oracle did not immediately respond

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The words of women

A new anthology compiles the stories of China's female writers to amplify their voices, Yang Yang reports. [Photo provided to China Daily] When Zhang Li was around 6 years old in the 1970s, she

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What is the profile of the average French ‘anti-masker’?

Thousands take to the streets of Europe's capitals to protest COVID-19 response measures, including the enforcement of mask wearing. /FP/John MacDugall. French people who are against the weari

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‘Willful, brazen, and unlawful’: Apple files breach-of-contract countersuit against Epic

Apple has filed a countersuit against Epic over the latter’s attempt to circumvent App Store rules and avoid paying millions in fees. The lawsuit alleges that Epic is deliberately in breach of

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TikTok joins Europe’s code on tackling hate speech

TikTok, the popular short video sharing app, has joined the European Union’s Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech.In a statement on joining the code, TikTok’s head of trust a

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Book: Pence told 'to be on standby' for Trump hospital visit

A new book is reviving questions about President Donald Trump's unscheduled visit to Walter Reed military hospital last fall with the revelation that “word went out” fo

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Microsoft launches a deepfake detector tool ahead of US election

Microsoft has added to the slowly growing pile of technologies aimed at spotting synthetic media (aka deepfakes) with the launch of a tool for analyzing videos and still photos to generate a manipulat

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France Slams 'Intransigent' Boris Johnson for Post-Brexit Trade Talks Stalemate as ‘No-Deal’ Looms

A seventh round of trade talks between the European Union and Britain on future relations after the latter’s departure from the bloc last January has failed to make any

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Xiaomi plans to bring under-screen cameras to its smartphones next year

The front-facing camera has been a pretty constant bugbear for phone makers for a number of years now. Xiaomi certainly isn’t the first to offer a clever technological solution to the problem — and it

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TikTok sues the U.S. government over its forthcoming ban

TikTok is suing the U.S. government in federal court over the Trump Administration’s decision to ban TikTok in the U.S. market. Reports that TikTok would soon file a legal challenge to the ban w

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Trump’s official campaign app had to reset its rating after being trolled by TikTokers

An effort by TikTok users to troll President Trump’s official campaign app with thousands of 1-star reviews appears to have had an impact — if not the impact the pranksters had wanted. In

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Facebook trails expanding portability tools ahead of FTC hearing

Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms.In comments on portability sent to US regulators ahead of an FTC hearing on the topic

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What is 'technological sovereignty' and why does Taiwan lack it

Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, an

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The journey of a kids book startup that tackles topics like racism, cancer and divorce

Jelani Memory, an entrepreneur and father, had been wanting to write a kids book for years. While in the midst of raising a Series B round for his startup Circle Media, he started to feel burned out a

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Will Belarus' Lukashenko fight until the end?

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot at a polling station in Minsk, Belarus, August 9, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Nikola Mikovic is a freelance journalist based in Serb