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Last Wednesday, a message appeared in a new WhatsApp channel called “Death to the Arabs.” The message urged Israelis to join a mass street brawl against Palestinian citizens of Israel.Within hours, dozens of other new WhatsApp groups popped up with variations of the same...
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“It would have been an amazing merger,” said David Barden, a senior research analyst at Bank of America. “It would have kind of perpetuated the AT&T juggernaut of growth through acquisition — not through organic — but it failed.”Mr. Stephenson then looked to the...
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“This would really put the spotlight on that next stage of innovation,” said Debbie Altenburg, an associate vice president at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. “There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making...
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The government has responded to its National Data Strategy consultation by putting an emphasis on “data as an asset” rather than a “threat to be managed”, and pledging delivery as the next step.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) originally published guidance for the...
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The government inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is set to be made statutory with the power to compel witnesses and evidence.
According to Sky News, the government will soon announce that the current inquiry led by Sir Wyn Williams will be given statutory status,...
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Microsoft has committed to storing and processing all of its European Union (EU) customer data within the bloc by creating an “EU Data Boundary”, but data protection experts have criticised the move as a tacit admission that data is being routinely processed elsewhere.
In a blog...
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Apple wouldn’t be the company it is today without China. It’s where Apple manufactures nearly all of its products and sells many of them.But my colleagues have...
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The increased use of technology-based cross-border payment services helped ensure remittance flows avoided the huge declines predicted during the pandemic.
The value of money transferred by migrant workers to families in the developing world was expected to plummet amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but World Bank figures...
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Before the pandemic, Gia was an independent escort who worked three or four days a week instead of six or seven. She saw clients at her work space in San Francisco, a 480-square-foot studio apartment decorated in tones of blush and dark blue. She...
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Santander customers were unable to access banking services across various channels throughout Saturday 15 May as a result of technical problems.
For almost the whole day, the bank’s UK customers were unable to use telephone, online and mobile banking, as well as branches, cards and cash...
