Internet News
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Environment Canada launched its first ever weather app for iPhone and Android this week that includes a high-resolution radar animation on a zoomable map background. The best part? It's free in the Google Play and Apple stores.
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By AFP
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France said Thursday it is toughening its online abuse laws after an outcry over young media executives who ran a macho "boys' club" that hounded female colleagues.
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"Tudder," a Tinder-inspired app is helping farmers match up potential partners for their cattle. Launched just in time for Valentine's Day, Tudder's creators believe it is the first ever matchmaking app for livestock.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada's public broadcaster said Tuesday it found in a trove of Twitter messages evidence of possible foreign actors trying to sow divisions between Canadians on pipelines, migrants and other hot-button issues.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Reddit confirmed Monday a new funding round that included a $150 million investment by Chinese technology behemoth Tencent, prompting concerns that "the front page of the internet" might wind up censored.
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By AFP
Paris -
A group of young French media executives was condemned Monday for running a macho "boys' club" that harassed female colleagues online.
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By AFP
Sydney -
The head of Australia's competition watchdog warned Monday that tough new regulation of tech giants like Google and Facebook was needed to protect the future of independent journalism.
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By AFP
London -
Britain on Friday urged all social media platforms to join Instagram and curb self-harm posts after a UK teen who went online to read about suicide took her own life.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Instagram has announced a clampdown on images of self-injury after a British teen who went online to read about suicide took her own life.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Instagram late Thursday announced it is clamping down on images related to self-injury such as cutting.
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By AFP
New York -
Filmmaker Woody Allen has filed a $68 million suit against Amazon for breach of contract, accusing the streaming giant of canceling a film deal because of a "baseless" decades-old allegation that he sexually abused his daughter.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Facebook India said Thursday it will run disclaimers on political ads and publish details of sponsors to bring transparency in political advertising ahead of a general election due by May.
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By AFP
Frankfurt Am Main -
Germany's Federal Competition Office (FCO) said Thursday it would impose new limits on how Facebook collects data from subsidiaries Whatsapp and Instagram, as well as third-party websites with embedded Facebook features such as "Like" buttons.
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This year’s Safer Internet Day forces us to recognize that, for all the wonderful things the internet has brought to humanity, our safety online is not as secure as it could be.
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By AFP
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A two-week cyber blackout caused financial headache and social heartache in remote Tonga, but it also forced residents of the Pacific island kingdom to rediscover the art of offline communication.
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February 4 marks Facebook's fifteenth anniversary. While the giant of social media continues to show strong global growth, the past year has been marked by controversy.
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By AFP
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Amy Spiro is one of many Israeli journalists who recently received a direct message on her Twitter account linking to a sensational news story.
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By AFP
Caracas -
Deprived almost entirely of coverage on mainstream media, Venezuela's self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido has been deftly using the social networks to woo support, but even that avenue is increasingly being cut off.
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By AFP
Bejing -
The founder of a prominent Chinese civil and human rights website was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for inciting state subversion, according to human rights organisations.
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By AFP
Apo -
Ukrainian authorities aided by Belgian, US and other investigators have staged raids aimed at smashing the illegal trade of access to hacked computer systems, officials said Monday.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defense of the social network's business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people's data.
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By AFP
Bejing -
Microsoft's Bing search engine was inaccessible in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.Attempts to open cn.bing.
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By AFP
Paris -
Google said Wednesday it would appeal a record 50-million-euro fine imposed by France's data regulator for failing to meet the EU's strict new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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By AFP
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Fans were left baffled on Wednesday after Liverpool's star Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah appeared to have deleted all of his social media accounts where his followers number in the millions.
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By AFP
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Facebook announced Thursday that it has removed more than 500 pages, groups and accounts originating in Russia for engaging in what the social network called "coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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Tilray has agreed to pay Authentic Brands Group (ABG) $100 million initially to create and distribute consumer cannabis products as the retailer's preferred supplier, the companies announced Tuesday.
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By AFP
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Facebook announced Tuesday that it will invest $300 million over three years to support journalism, with an emphasis on promoting hard-hit local news organizations.
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By AFP
Quito -
Ecuador on Friday denied media reports that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had been made to sleep on the floor and denied heating at the country's London embassy.
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By AFP
London -
A British charity helping whistleblowers around the world on Thursday launched a legal aid fund for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, warning his expulsion from Ecuador's embassy in London "may be imminent".
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By AFP
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A prominent rights activist appealed to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday to pardon his wife, sentenced to two years in jail for posting a video denouncing sexual harassment.
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Internet Image
File ohoto: mesh13, Canada's premier digital conference.
Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS, AFP/File
Internet addiction is a serious concern in Asia. Flickr user Addicts
Against internet censorship
A woman shopping online Keith Williamson, Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
The Chinese are connected to the world in big numbers. Chrislb
Manicure with IWNY hashtag
'Steve' the plucky-looking modem. Illustration by Digital Journal
An internet comment thread. Curafly, on Flick'r
Internet store deeptrivia
Sears and Marshall's department stores share the same block of Queens Boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens. Jim.henderson/Wikimedia Commons
Prototype of the Blackstar Arms 3D-printed rifle. Mitch Barrie from Reno, NV, USA
Jonathon Narducci's "Love Me" screens as part of 2014 Hot Docs festival. Jonathon Narducci
Someone's inbox when Hotmail didn't load all his emails Tom Rafferty
Screenshot of Yahoo Contributor Network
Freedom House found declines in online freedom of expression in 32 of the 65 countries assessed since June 2014, with "notable declines" in Libya, France and Ukraine Lionel Bonaventure, AFP/File
Digital transformation is the transformation of business to the concept of "going paperless", which affects the whole segments of economy and society.
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