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An Italian body in charge of overseeing the competition and ensuring proper commercial practices has initiated legal proceedings against Facebook, stating the company has failed to adequately comply with an earlier judgment. The judgment, issued in November 2018, fined Facebook 5 million EUR for improper treatment of user data and required the company to issue an amending statement to its Italy-specific homepage.

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Tinder has announced several new safety features for users, including a panic button and anti-catfishing features, which will allow users to save relevant data for dates including personal information and location. When a user hits the panic button, Tinder will immediately alert emergency services and share the exact location with authorities.

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According to a new study conducted by Oracle, 64% of those who were surveyed said they would trust a robot more than they do their managers. These employees also said that they were excited about having new technologies in the workplace, especially if the technologies help them learn new skills or gain more free time.

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United States President Donald Trump's administration has issued a warning to prime minister Boris Johnson's government, advising against allowing Chinese firm Huawei a leading role in the country's 5G telecommunications networks, stating it would threaten British secrets. Huawei has denied any affiliation with the Chinese government and claims the US wishes to undermine its operations because no US company can match its quality of service at low costs.

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Customers of smart speaker manufacturer Sonos are criticizing the company for its newest batch of software updates, in which Sonos announced that they would no longer be supporting older devices, despite the company's latest estimates reporting that 92 percent of the products it had ever shipped was still in use.

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Babylon Health, a new tech startup that raised $550 million last year, has signed a deal with the city of Wolverhampton to create an AI-powered healthcare app that will cover all the 300,000 people that live in the city. The first phase of the app will be out by the end of the year.

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Microsoft is currently working on two different smartphones that will have two foldable screens and has now released the tools developers will need to create apps for such devices. Both the phones will be using Android and will probably release sometime during the holidays this year. They are also releasing tools for web apps to change how they appear on two screens.

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The innovative self-driving car startup Cruise recently launched the Cruise Origin, a self-driving electric car without steering wheels or pedals. Cruise is majority-owned by General Motors and developed the car in collaboration with Honda, who are also shareholders. The two carmakers had been planning on releasing self-driving cars since 2018 but faced delays due to safety concerns and regulations.

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For the first time since the iPhone SE's release in 2016, Apple is set to return to the low-cost smartphone market in February 2020. Production will start in February while the phone's unveiling is expected in March. The new iPhone will replace the standard screen with a cheaper LCD screen to maintain the reduced cost, and seems to be targeting customers of low to mid-tier smartphone manufacturers like Huawei.

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Scientists working at the University of Bristol have announced that they have created 'diamond battery power' from nuclear waste material. These batteries last a very long time and only require that a specific kind of diamond be placed in a radioactive field. This could provide an opportunity to recycle all the nuclear waste that is currently being produced.

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Europe is going to be launching its own Mars rover sometime between July and August this year. The rover has successfully gone through the testing phase and using some parts that were provided by NASA. The European Space Agency is currently on schedule for launch and intends to use the rover to search for life on Mars.

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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has been working to end its dependence on Google products, due to which it has recently revealed signing an agreement with Dutch mapping firm TomTom to develop its own maps app as an alternative to Google Maps. TomTom has previously worked with Apple in the development of Apple Maps, and will maintain their own standalone apps on Anrdoid and iOS while working with Huawei.

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Sundar Pichai, the 47-year-old CEO of Google and newly appointed CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, wrote an article in the Financial Times advising a measured approach to regulating AI while recognizing the dangers of AI technologies such as deepfakes, which are are falsely edited videos in the same way images are faked in Adobe Photoshop.

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The US army is considering the feasibility of building a large sea wall to protect New York from storms and floods such as those caused by Hurrican Sandy in 2012. They are currently unsure if such a wall would even help and will likely be very expensive. The government is considering a large number of plans to protect the area from flooding.

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Samsung has announced that it is going to invest up to $500 million to build a new smartphone display screen factory in India. The factory will reduce the company's costs in the country and will allow it to compete with Xiaomi, who are also expanding in India. Dehli has offered the company large tax benefits to incentivize expansion.

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Facebook-owned Instagram has announced plans to remove the IGTV button, which appeared in the top-right corner of the app's homescreen. Facebook intended IGTV as a long-form video platform to rival apps like Youtube and TikTok, but very few of the billion Instagram users have been reported to use it, with even fewer downloading the standalone IGTV app.

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An anonymous hacker published a giant list of credentials that will allow others to access and even remotely control various Telnet devices. These devices include routers and IoT devices located all over the world. The hacker also released the IP addresses of said devices so attackers will be able to determine the locations of said devices.

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Facebook has apologized to Chinese president Xi Jinping for mistranslating his name into English from Burmese, citing technical problems. Jinping is on an official visit to Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and when users made Facebook posts in Burmese regarding the visit, Jinping's name was incorrectly translated into English as "Mr. Shithole".

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Heliogen, an energy start-up being funded by Bill Gates, has announced that it has found a way to use AI to reflect enough sunlight to generate extreme levels of heat. This will allow people to use AI and solar panels to do things like creating cement, glass and other substances that require a large amount of heat.

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A new report has shown that Youtube seems to be actively promoting videos that deny the existence of climate change. One in five users who search for climate change-related content will be led towards videos that directly contradict the science that proves climate change is occurring. This is happening despite Youtube's new policy of driving users away from fake news.

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SpaceX has announced that they will be testing their Dragon commercial spacecraft for the last time before they send astronauts to the international space station before the first time. This launch will involve losing the rocket instead of using a controlled landing like last time. This test is meant to show the rocket's emergency capabilities.

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The European Union has proposed a new law that would make it so all smartphones would use the same kind of charging port. This law is being considered in order to improve the consmer experiecne as well as drastically reduce electronic waste. Currently, there are more than 51,000 tonnes of electronic waste every year

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Google has announced that it's very popular web browser, Google Chrome, will not support web apps by June 2022. The apps are being removed due to incredibly low user numbers across multiple platforms, thus it is unlikely that the average person will experience any noticeable changes in their web browser.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised some concerns regarding facial recognition technology during a hearing regarding the use of this technology by the private sector. She said that the potential for abuse with this tech is large as corporations and governments could use it to track people's movements. She also said that facial recognition currently has a racial bias problem.

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Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize has been granted to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their work in developing the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR. This technology may allow scientists to permanently get rid of gene-based disease although it is still in the early stages of testing. It is unclear when the technology will be available to the public.

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