Internet
Microsoft cooperated with three British schoolgirls to create a tool to tackle bullying and loneliness
Three schoolgirls from the UK have worked with Microsoft to create an app that tackles bullying and loneliness. Twelve-year-old Kaja and 13-year-olds…
Africa-Europe Alliance: EU boosts pan-African Internet connectivity with €30 million
The EU has announced additional €30 million for the project “ AfricaConnect ”, that will provide affordable, high-capacity Internet for research and…
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee unveils plan to save the internet
Tim Berners-Lee, a British engineer credited with having invented the World Wide Web in 1989, has released an ambitious plan detailing steps…
Google to restrict political adverts worldwide
Google will no longer allow political campaigns to target advertising at people based on their supposed political leanings. Campaigns will also be…
The 2019 Web Summit in Lisbon
CEO and co-founder of Web Summit Paddy Cosgrave speaks during the third day of the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, 06 November…
New Russian controls on the internet
A law introducing new controls on the internet has come into force in Russia amid concerns it may be used by the…
Facebook agrees to pay UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000-pound fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy…
Australia takes Google to court over geolocation practices
Australia is taking Google to court over geolocation data-collection practices. The Australian Consumer Commission (ACC) has filed a lawsuit on allegations that…
World Internet Conference in China
Visitors at the 6th World Internet Conference, also known as Wuzhen Summit, in Wuzhen, China, on Monday 21 October 2019. As many…
Reports that Google made large contributions to climate change deniers
The Guardian reports that Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence…
Twitter suffers global outrage
Twitter said that the social media website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck was hit with an outage on Tuesday, with thousands…
U.N. appeals so that countries make ‘digital world’ safer for children
Rising Internet connectivity has the potential to transform children’s lives for the better, but also makes them vulnerable to sexual abuse, online…