Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook banned a large swathe of non-news pages in Australia in its attempt to remove news content from its platform. The bans were made by Facebook in response to a drafted new media law in the country that will require online platforms like Google and
Sir Keir Starmer has set out his vision for a post-coronavirus Britain, declaring: “We can’t return to business as usual.” The Labour leader said the COVID-19 crisis had exposed the UK’s “fragilities” and must prompt a bout of national soul-searching, declaring now was a “moment to think again about the country we want to be”.
Facebook has been described as a “school yard bully” over its decision to block access to news media in Australia, rather than pay them. Amid a row about licensing, Australians woke up on Thursday to find they could not share or view domestic and international news content on Facebook ahead of new a law which
Surge testing is to begin in an area of Leeds to try to control the potential spread of the South African variant of COVID-19 after more cases were found. The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said people living in the postcode LS8 are encouraged to take a test when offered, whether they are
The Prince of Wales said he has been “saddened” by “the variable uptake of coronavirus jabs” in black and Asian communities. Speaking remotely at a British Asian Trust webinar on vaccine safety, Prince Charles said production of the jab was thanks to a “superhuman effort by medical experts”, but called it a “tragedy” that the
Spacecraft aiming to land on Mars have skipped past the planet, burned up on entry, smashed into the surface, and made it down amid a fierce dust storm only to spit out a single fuzzy gray picture before dying. Almost 50 years after the first casualty at Mars, NASA is attempting its hardest Martian touchdown
Employers may be able to draw up contracts requiring new staff to get a coronavirus jab, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has suggested. The cabinet minister said it was unlikely bosses could legally require workers to receive a jab under existing agreements, but indicated it could be tested in court. Pimlico Plumbers and Barchester Healthcare, one
Greentech Media, which alongside CleanTechnica has been seen as one of the top cleantech sites globally for the last decade plus, is stopping publishing and going to let the site simply wind down. My first thought, as this was not published first by GTM, was that this was potentially fake news. After all, we at
According to media sources in Korea, Hyundai is about to enter into an agreement with their Domestic Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport to replace all of the batteries in its Kona electric vehicle fleet. The recall might also extend to its IONIQ line and busses. This has not yet been confirmed, and the scope
Severe weather and associated power outages across the United States in the past year have elevated demand for backup generators, bottlenecking suppliers such as Generac. As millions of Texas residents continue to battle through a dayslong massive power shut-off in response to unprecedented snowfall across the state, Generac CEO Aaron Jagdfeld said requests for alternative
Steve Huffman CEO, Reddit, delivers remarks on ‘Redesigning Reddit’ during the third day of Web Summit in Altice Arena on November 08, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Horacio Villalobos | Corbis | Getty Images Reddit CEO Steve Huffman will tell members of Congress on Thursday that no significant activity on the company’s online community WallStreetBets last
Nightclubs, bars and music venues face “extinction” unless urgent government action is taken, a cross-party group of MPs has warned. Some businesses have been unable to open at all since March of last year and others have already gone under. This time last year, Jeremy Joseph’s club Heaven in London was hosting the Pussycat Dolls
One of the largest and most authoritative coronavirus surveys has found that infections are falling in England, confirming that lockdown is working to suppress the virus. Imperial College London’s REACT study found that infections had fallen by more than two-thirds since the last time it reported in mid-January. Last time, REACT found that 1 in
Demi Lovato has revealed that her 2018 drug overdose left her minutes from death and led to three strokes, a heart attack and brain damage. The 28-year-old singer was speaking ahead of the launch of her new documentary, and elaborated on the incident which almost ended her life. She said: “I had three strokes. I
Why do states struggle so much with implementing energy efficiency policies and programs? Saving money on electric bills “gives families more money to spend on groceries, childcare, and other necessities of life,” according to pediatrician Barbara Nabrit-Stephens, writing recently in the Tampa Bay Times. As a member of Florida Clinicians for Climate Action, she is
Internal plans in Whitehall suggest a rapid reopening of the economy in the weeks after pupils return to classrooms on 8 March, Sky News understands. Whitehall officials have drawn up a timetable to help work out internal plans to roll out the government’s planned mass COVID testing regime. This suggests a desire to reopen rapidly
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