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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Facebook acknowledged in a Senate inquiry yesterday that it is scraping the public photos of Australian users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Facebook’s parent company Meta claims this excludes data from users who have marked their posts as “private,” as well as photos or data from users under the…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain San Mateo County, California, home to tech giant Meta, urged Congress to pass legislation requiring social media companies to add labels to their platforms warning people about their potential to harm users’ mental health. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday, the same day 42 state attorneys general, including…
Google and other big tech firms have come under tight scrutiny in Europe. An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy launched an investigation Thursday into Google’s artificial intelligence development. The inquiry comes as the EU and other major regulators around the world crack down on big tech over a raft of issues…
Europe’s BEUC umbrella consumer rights group filed a complaint with the European Commission. European consumer groups on Thursday accused the world’s biggest video game companies of “purposefully tricking” consumers, including children, to push them to spend more. Video games are wildly popular in Europe where more than half the population are players, according to industry…
Boeing workers who overwhelmingly voted to authorize a potential strike in July will vote again on Thursday on whether to follow through. Boeing workers began voting early Thursday on a new contract that the embattled aviation giant hopes is rich enough to avert a strike at two factories, adding to the company’s woes. The union’s…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research published in Business Strategy and the Environment based on information from G7 countries demonstrates that green finance—loans, investments, and incentives that support environmentally-friendly projects and activities—can reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Also, data indicate that investments in green projects are profitable. The study found that G7 countries’ environmental conditions have…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain South Africa is poised to become a major player in the global energy transition, thanks to its vast renewable energy resources (sun and wind) and its plans for green hydrogen production. Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysiswhere renewable electricity splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Unlike gray hydrogen, which is derived…
Credit: Andersen EV from Pexels It’s no secret Australia has abundant and cheap renewable energy, especially wind and solar power. But yes, there are times when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. We need energy storage to get us through those still nights and dreary days. The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain US tech giant Amazon is to invest £8 billion ($10.5 billion) in Britain over the next five years, creating thousands of jobs via its web services arm, the company and UK government announced Wednesday. The announcement is a welcome boon for Britain’s recently elected Labour government, which has put firing economic…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 2020, Google began the practice of “data minimization,” or automatically deleting user data including location history and web activity after 18 months, in a bid to improve user privacy. Such privacy-preserving policies by Google and other tech giants, especially those that reduce the retention period of consumer behavioral data, result…
