Tech giants fiercely resist compulsory bargaining code of conduct Facebook News – U.S. website (Author’s photo of computer webpage) In what could be a world first if successful, the Australian government has drafted laws that would force tech giants Facebook and Google to negotiate with media companies over payment forContinue Reading
The Cyber Defence Centre system legalises repressive patterns A man holds his mobile phone at a fort in Oman. Photo via Pikist, license-free photos for design. Editors note: This post was written by Khalid Ibrahim, executive director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes freedom of expression,Continue Reading
Suresh Raina pulled out of IPL 2020 due to personal reasons.© AFP Former India cricketer Suresh Raina on Friday called on Jammu and Kashmir Police chief Dilbag Singh here and discussed plans for encouraging the youth of the union territory in honing their sports skills, a police spokesman said. “FamousContinue Reading
‘Social media played a part in mobilizing the population’ Protestors in Tyre, Southern Lebanon, cheering to a female singer during a demonstration against government corruption and austerity measures on October 22, 2019. Credit: RomanDeckert via Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0. Editor’s note: This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative thatContinue Reading
EPA/Janos Philip The number of new COVID-19 cases in the Czech Republic recently surpassed 3,000 in a single day. As infections rise across Europe, the country, which has a population of 10 million, has regularly seen daily case numbers overtake records from March and April. Other central and eastern EuropeanContinue Reading
In her first state of the union address as president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen called out hatred and pledged to build “a union of equality”. While European institutions have been at the forefront of fighting hate crime and discrimination in and outside of the EU, memberContinue Reading
© Paul Breeze, Author provided Humanity originated on the African continent at least 300,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence in southern Greece and the Levant (modern-day Israel) that some early members of our species expanded beyond Africa around 200,000 years ago, and again between 120,000 to 90,000 yearsContinue Reading
MS Dhoni will be playing his first competitive match since July 2019.© BCCI/IPL When Mumbai Indians (MI) meet Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the opening match of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 at Abu Dhabi, the CSK fans, and all the cricketing fraternity, will have their eyes focussed on MS Dhoni,Continue Reading
Bas Nastassia/Shutterstock Since it was unveiled earlier this year, the new AI-based language generating software GPT-3 has attracted much attention for its ability to produce passages of writing that are convincingly human-like. Some have even suggested that the program, created by Elon Musk’s OpenAI, may be considered or appears toContinue Reading
Wikimedia Commons The coronavirus pandemic has been compared with many previous contagions, including the great plague and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. However, there has been little consideration of probably the most significant historical episode of disease. The modern world as we know it would not have existed without theContinue Reading
