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Google Loses Appeal against €2.4 Billion Fine: Tech Giants Might Now Have to Re-Think Their Entire Business Models

Google Loses Appeal against €2.4 Billion Fine: Tech Giants Might Now Have to Re-Think Their Entire Business Models

Renaud Foucart Lancaster University Renaud Foucart is an applied microeconomic theorist. This means he trys to understand real world puzzles by modelling strategic interactions. This has led him to work on topics as different as smoking bans, Islamic finance, environmental agreements, Google is being fined €2.4 billion (£2.1

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China’s Tech and Finance Crackdown Is a Challenge to Western Ideas That Cuts across Developing World

Johannes Petry University of Warwick Johannes Petry is a political economist researching the changing dynamics of financial globalisation and its impact on the global norms, institutions and governance that underpin the global economy. China introduced new rules on November 1 that restrict the extent to which internet companies can collect

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The Great Reset’s Digital ID for New Zealand

Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org Our government likes to rule under cover of darkness while people are utterly distracted and have little knowledge of bills going through parliament.  They’re never shouted from the rooftops for a reason. I share my submissions sometimes in order for others to notice these issues

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The Rise of Dark Web Design: How Sites Manipulate You into Clicking

Daniel Fitton University of Central Lancashire Daniel Fitton is a Reader in User Experience Design at the University of Central Lancashire where he leads the User Experience Design MSc and MRes courses in addition teaching a range of technical and HCI-related modules. He work within the Child-Computer Interaction (ChiCI) research

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Tech Talk: Clinton and the BleachBit Email Cleanup
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Tech Talk: Clinton and the BleachBit Email Cleanup

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Op-Ed: IRD Shutting down for Days

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities Alongside the significant drop in Crown digital support, the refusal of the Government to invest further in the Ultra Fast broadband rollout and constant attacks on the cyber border of New Zealand, a nation with more

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Hydrogen Is Just Another Green Bomb

Hydrogen Is Just Another Green Bomb

It’s said that reliable fusion power is always just ten years away. It’s certainly been just around the corner ever since I was a spotty little Herbert starting high school. It’s the same story with the end of the world: for as long as I can remember,

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Computer Space Launched the Video Game Industry 50 Years Ago – Here’s the Real Reason You Probably Haven’t Heard of It

Noah Wardrip-Fruin University of California, Santa Cruz Noah Wardrip-Fruin is the author of How Pac-Man Eats (2020) and a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, a technical and cultural research group, with Michael Mateas. Before Pong there was Computer

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Tech Talk: A Free New Android Phone
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Tech Talk: A Free New Android Phone

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Earmuffs That Tell You When You’re Drunk

Michelle Wheeler particle.scitech.org.au Michelle is a former science and environment reporter for The West Australian. Her work has seen her visit a snake-infested island dubbed the most dangerous in the world, test great white shark detectors in a tinny and meet isolated tribes in the Malaysian jungle.

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