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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.
Bitcoin mining in northern Chinese province to be halted amid energy-saving push
Bitcoin mining requires huge amounts of computing power and uses large amounts of energy, but China has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality in 2060. Inner Mongolia was the only one of 30 areas under Beijing’s energy consumption and energy intensity review that failed to meet the targets in 2019.
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.
Why are people spending hours on Clubhouse? It’s not (usually) the money
Like most Clubhouse users, Rahaf Harfoush doesn’t make money on the app. But she does help others avoid losing it.
TikTok agrees US$92mil deal to settle US privacy lawsuits
TikTok has agreed to pay US$92mil (RM372.92mil) in a deal to settle a cluster of US class-action lawsuits accusing the video-snippet sharing platform of invading the privacy of young users.
Biden urges Amazon workers to vote in Alabama unionisation drive
US President Joe Biden tells Amazon not to block employees' effort to unionise, but stop short of backing the union's efforts.
Former Kuaishou executive arrested for alleged corruption amid anti-bribery pressure on China’s Big Tech
Zhao Danyang, a former vice-president at Kuaishou responsible for its content business, was arrested along with two subordinates. The video-sharing company joins other tech giants, including Tencent, with employees that have been investigated for corruption.
Facebook launches PR campaign to defend targeted ads in spat with Apple
Facebook is not backing down in its fight with Apple over a new privacy feature that could curb tracking needed for the social network’s targeted ads, launching a major media campaign to defend a practice that is a big revenue generator.
Airbnb and DoorDash log losses as they ride out pandemic
In their first financial results as publicly traded companies, Airbnb and DoorDash logged losses as pandemic circumstances battered their business models.
Pandemic, EU billions drive Greece's digital revolution
ATHENS (Reuters) - Before COVID-19, visits to Greece's paper-strewn labour offices were a ordeal of queues and case files, often for basic matters that in less than a year have moved online as the pandemic upended old administrative routines.
