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...These tools could provide millions of users with a route to bypass online advertising....
...Online businesses have also increased their spending on technology-related think-tanks, such as the Center for Democracy and Technology, which conduct research on industry-specific issues....
...I went to the British Library and summoned from the archives some copies of lads’ mags from the 1990s. They were both better and worse than I remembered....
...Of course, few of us are able to abandon smartphones and computer screens....
...The latest earnings figures showed that “these companies have such significant power over so many aspects of our lives”, said Samir Jain, director of policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology....
...During the marches, the investigative online publication The Intercept reported that police had used special access to social media surveillance tools that monitor protesters’ online discussions in real...
...Developer sessions continue online for the rest of the week....
...Even so, Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Berkeley who developed the PhotoDNA system used by more than 150 companies to detect child abuse imagery online, said Facebook could do more to get...
...In the same period, exports of phones, computers and other electronics swelled 56 per cent....
...Online advertising has become one of the most contentious issues in political campaigning in the past few months....
...Last month it hosted a lavish premiere at New York’s Lincoln Center for The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon....
...SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son was once regarded as an outsider by Japan Inc....
...their online behaviour....
...In 2017, Ping An Tech entered into a collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Chongqing and Shenzhen....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 9 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...As a result, half of Americans do not trust the federal government or social media sites to protect their data online, according to a 2016 study from the Pew Research Center on Internet and Technology....
...Each year, computer security breaches cost the global economy about $600bn, according to Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies....
...Goldman Sachs could score another big win this year after Dell Technologies said in a proxy statement that it would pay Wall Street's top investment bank $70m if its complicated deal to return Michael Dell's computer...
...The purchase of Mojang, maker of the Minecraft computer game, was an early and unexpected test of this idea....
...“I don’t have a computer and I don’t even use the internet,” he says as he fumbles with his iPhone 4 to see if it is still charging....
...SAE now employs 80 portfolio managers and researchers, who include more than 30 PhDs in computer science, physics and engineering....
...Steve Jobs once even described computers as bicycles for our minds, although their ability to facilitate amorous liaisons, like the pre-first world war velocipedes, was probably not what he had in mind....
...Ms Fowler never graduated from high school, instead working as a babysitter and ranch hand, and teaching herself in the local library....
...As co-founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, Wales helped create one of the wonders of our digital world....
...Some 43m unique viewers watched last year’s League of Legends World Championship online, up from 8m in 2012, with the finals selling out large venues such as LA’s Staples Center and Seoul’s World Cup stadium...
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