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‘In this world, social media is everything’: how Dubai became the planet’s influencer capital
Once a small port on the edge of a desert, Dubai is now a magnet for reality stars and…
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I’ve lost my conversational mojo – can I relearn the art of small talk?
Been up to much lately? After a year of isolation, I’ve forgotten how to talk to peopl…
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Haunted by shame: victims of bank transfer scams tell of lasting trauma
Fraud can have devastating consequences on victims, and not only financially Mary Hig…
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Poppy Gustafsson: the Darktrace tycoon in new cybersecurity era
Gustafsson’s firm, founded when she was 30, is marketed as a digital parallel of a hum…
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Google location data: what does Australian court ruling mean and how can I turn off my tracking history?
Two experts on the significance of the ACCC court win that found Google ‘partially’ mi…
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Ground zero for gaming memes: 10 excellent video game TikTok accounts
With a global audience of 800m monthly users, most of them under 21, the video sharing…
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Amazon must ‘do a better job’ for its workers, says Jeff Bezos
But company’s founder pushes back against criticism of its work practices in letter to…
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Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’
Children’s health advocates urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon the plan citing the negat…
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Google ‘partially’ misled consumers over collecting location data, Australian court finds
Google collected data on some Android and Pixel phones even when customers ticked ‘No’…
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A riveting tale of electoral fraud – podcasts of the week
The makers of Serial examine a string of voter irregularities. Plus: how conspiracy th…
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Instagram apologises for promoting weight-loss content to users with eating disorders
Social media platform says it was a ‘mistake’ and that harmful terms have been removed…
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Three days of pain: how I built a gaming PC
For an enthusiastic computer nerd, it should have been a fun, fulfilling, money-saving…
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Amazon’s warehouse boom linked to health hazards in America’s most polluted region
Research shows warehouses, which have proliferated in California’s Inland Empire, brin…
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Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until it realized a BJP politician was involved
Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook’s enforcement of rules against pow…
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Fantasian review — Beautiful, if not always bold iPhone game
iPhone, iPad (via Apple Arcade); Mistwalker/Apple This role-playing game by Mistwalker…
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