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Can democracy work on the Internet? Reddit tells a mixed story
Reddit’s decentralised model offers flexibility, allowing different communities to set their own standards of acceptability, and puts decisions in the hands of people who understand the context and have a stake in the outcome. But it is not without downsides.
Google is paying for more information in a break with its past
Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the Web – and made a mint from – without paying a sen.
Microsoft says vaccine tools have ‘fallen short’ after US snags
Widely-used Microsoft Corp vaccine scheduling software that has run into difficulties in US states like Iowa and New Jersey is being blamed for problems that left some residents of the nation’s capital unable to book appointments.
Hackers seized on the pandemic, but some US states are fighting back
Covid-19 made its US debut in Washington state, but the virus was only the first of several intruders to attack the state in the past year.
Driverless bus hits streets of Malaga in southern Spain
A new driverless electric bus has begun operating in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, in a project presented as a first in Europe.
Facebook’s small sacrifice to Australia helps keep empire intact
Australia on Feb 25 passed a world-first law aimed at forcing Google and Facebook Inc to pay for news. But after a forceful intervention from the world’s biggest social network, the reality is Silicon Valley’s titans are paying a small price for cementing their influence over the media industry.
Australian parliament passes news media bargaining code
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian parliament on Thursday passed a news media and digital platforms mandatory bargaining code that will make it compulsory for Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for content.
ByteDance makes biggest public commitment yet to Tencent video game rivalry with launch of stand-alone site for Nuverse
The video game market has become hugely lucrative in recent years, with both Big Tech and high-powered start-ups aggressively building up their gaming units. Nuverse’s previous titles struggled to live up to expectations, but it is only a matter of time before it comes up with a hit game.
Australia's antitrust chief claims victory after Facebook standoff
CANBERRA (Reuters) - The architect of Australia's laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay media companies for content claimed victory on Wednesday, though critics said last-minute changes to appease Facebook favoured Big Tech over smaller news outlets.
New research: Why Zoom can wipe you out
Covid-19 pandemic has moved our lives into a virtual space. Why is that so exhausting?
