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Phone app alerts users to look up while walking

Shawdesh dEsk: Android users will receive a notification telling them to stop looking at their mobile phones while walking, a leaked new tool suggests. The feature is being tested in

The woman who took on Google and won

Shawdesh Desk: Everyone has their breaking point. And when it comes it can be a small thing, an incident that usually wouldn’t matter. Shannon Wait’s moment was when her Google-issued

Facebook says hackers ‘scraped’ data of 533 mn users in 2019 leak

Shawdesh desk: Facebook said Tuesday that hackers “scraped” personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends

UK ‘heading towards digital skills shortage disaster’

Shawdesh Desk: The UK is heading towards a “catastrophic” digital skills shortage “disaster”, a think tank has warned. The Learning & Work Institute says the number of young people taking

UAE to test cloud-busting drones to boost rainfall

Shawdesh Desk: Drones that fly into clouds, giving them an electric shock to “cajole them” into producing rain, are about to be tested in the United Arab Emirates. The country

China’s tech giants fall under regulator’s pressure

Shawdesh Desk: China’s tech giants are coming under increasing pressure from regulators worried about their growing influence. By Monday, Tencent had shed more than $60bn (£42bn) from its market value

YouTube deletes 30,000 vaccine misinfo videos

Shawdesh Desk: YouTube has removed more than 30,000 misleading Covid-19 vaccination videos in the past five months, it said. A YouTube spokeswoman said the videos contradicted vaccine information from the

European Banking Authority hit by Microsoft Exchange hack

Shawdesh Desk: The European Banking Authority’s email servers have been compromised in a global Microsoft Exchange cyber-attack. The EU body said personal data may have been accessed from its servers.