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Calls for 'China repatriations' based on a flawed concept of justice

People take a rest at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., the United States, April 8, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and

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Lacking eyeballs, Facebook’s ad review system fails to spot coronavirus harm

Facebook’s ad review system is failing to prevent coronavirus misinformation from being targeted at its users, according to an investigation by Consumer Reports.The not-for-profit consumer advo

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Google Stadia is free for everyone, with two-month trial for Pro Tier

Google’s game-streaming service Stadia is now free for anyone with a Google account, the company announced today. Assuming you’ve got a compatible device and controller — and good interne

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Call for common EU approach to apps and data to fight COVID-19 and protect citizens’ rights

The European Commission has responded to the regional scramble for apps and data to help tackle the coronavirus crisis by calling for a common EU approach to boost the effectiveness of digital interv

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Trump sees the WHO as a convenient scapegoat for his own failures

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, and

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Firefox gets a refreshed address bar

Mozilla is launching version 75 of its Firefox browser today. As always, there are plenty of bug fixes and changes for developers who write web apps, but the marquee feature of this update is a refre

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Agritech startup DeHaat raises $12M to reach more farmers in India

DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers, has raised $12 million as it looks to scale its network across India.The Series A financial round for the eight-year

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Queen Elizabeth II calls for endurance, sacrifice and cooperation

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 and

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Startups Weekly: SaaS companies feel the churn but hope for a brighter tomorrow

[Editor’s note: Want to get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that startups can use by email? Subscribe here.] There are a few online productivity stocks booming, and a few popular remote-firs

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U.S. federal government missed opportunity to fight COVID-19: NEJM

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major weaknesses in the federalist system of public health governance, which divides powers among the federal, state and local governments, accord

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'Modern piracy' illustrates the sinking of American leadership

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 and

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Google rolls back SameSite cookie changes to keep essential online services from breaking

Google today announced that it will temporarily roll back the changes it recently made to how its Chrome browser handles cookies in order to ensure that sites that perform essential services like ban

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Slowing rate of COVID-19 infection in Australia "encouraging": PM

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has described a recent slowdown in the spread of coronavirus in Australia as "promising" and "encouraging." There had been 5,2

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This 'Intelligence Report' is yet another Trump deflection

Medical area of the temporary hospital is seen at Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, U.S., March 30, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations a

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SoftBank terminates $3BN tender offer for WeWork shares

SoftBank Group has pulled a $3 billion tender offer for WeWork shares — citing closing conditions not being met.The investment behemoth had been rumoured to be getting cold feet, when the WSJ

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Zoom freezes feature development to fix security and privacy issues

Zoom has been widely criticized over the past couple of weeks for terrible security, a poorly designed screensharing feature, misleading dark pattern, fake end-to-end-encryption claims and an incompl

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China's kindness should not be misunderstood

Workers make face masks on production lines at a workshop of SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW), a major Chinese automobile manufacturer in Liuzhou City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 1