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2020-06-20

United Allied States (UAS) Shares Vision to Build a Global Nation of Sovereign States

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The United Allied States (UAS) is announcing the formation of its new sovereign government. "The founding principles of UAS are fre...
2019-04-15

EU Approves Controversial Copyright Directive

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Today the Council of the European Union gave its green light to the new Copyright Directive which will bring concrete benefits to citizens...
2019-03-28

Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content

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Today we’re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on Facebook and Instagram, w...
2018-11-06

Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections

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Facebook : As part of our efforts to prevent interference on Facebook during elections, we are in regular contact with law enforcement, o...
2018-09-21

Huobi Founder Leon Li Meets With Vladimir Putin Advisor Sergey Glazyev

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Huobi founder and CEO Leon Li and noted Russian economist Sergey Glazyev, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, met Monda...
2018-07-18

Google fined a record €4.3B (~$5B) by the EU for Android antitrust violations

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The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Since 2011, Google has imposed illegal restrictio...
2018-06-13

Ramp-Up in Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Sea Level Rise

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Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, acc...
2018-06-12

Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Deliver 300th F-35 Aircraft

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The F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] delivered the 300th production F-35 aircraft, demonstrating the program&...
2018-05-11

Big Data Help with the Tourism Prosperity of the International Historic and Cultural City, Datong

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On April 26, China Economic Information Service (CEIS) of Xinhua News Agency released the Tourism Development Index of Datong, China i...
2018-03-29

URS Labs Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) was Selected to Participate in the UN World Food Program (WFP) Innovation Boot Camp

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The URS Labs team has returned to the United Arab Emirates this week, after being selected to participate in a weeklong boot camp at t...
2018-03-21

EU proposes major new tax on big tech companies

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The European Commission proposes a 3% tax on EU revenues of companies with global annual revenues of €750M+, like Google, Facebook, an...
2018-03-02

EU to tech companies: you have one hour to remove terrorist content

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EU announces guidelines mandating that tech firms remove terror content within one hour of it being flagged by law enforcement or Euro...
2018-01-22

Facebook Says Social Media Is Not Always Healthy for Democracy

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Facebook lets inside and outside contributors weigh in on effect of social media on democracy, discusses people's draw to info tha...
2018-01-06

Twitter says Trump, other world leaders can tweet what they want

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Twitter says it does not block or remove controversial tweets of world leaders because it would hide important information people shou...
2017-09-07

Facebook says $100,000 in ad buys during U.S. election came from fake accounts out of Russia

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Facebook says it sold ~$100K of ads on politically divisive topics to Russia-linked accounts from 6/15-5/17; sources say FB told Congr...
2017-08-10

India's government blocks the Internet Archive

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Internet Archive appears to be blocked by Indian government; Indian Department of Telecom, Ministry of Electronics & Info Tech not...
2017-07-24

Drone registration coming to the UK

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UK government plans to require drones weighing 250g or more be registered; drone owners will need to take a drone safety awareness tes...
2017-07-18

UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018

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UK government announces that porn websites will have to verify UK users are aged 18+ by April 2018; users may be asked to verify with ...
2017-06-16

Canada Bans Phones Locked To Carriers, Removes Unlocking Fees

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Canada's telecom regulator CRTC orders all new devices be unlocked, bans unlocking fees, effective Dec. 1 The Canadian Radio...
2017-06-15

EU roaming charges now officially dropped

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Mobile roaming charges now dropped across 28 EU countries, for users living in an EU country for at least 8 months each year As of t...