Hillary Clinton has personally ordered several assassinations; Donald Trump once referred to Republican voters as “the dumbest…in the country”; and literally everyone is a Russian agent. FAKE NEWS is everywhere. The sheer quantity of misinformation on the internet is as evident as the need to do something about it. Luckily Google, along with its sister think-tank Jigsaw, is attempting just that. Google first started tagging certain...
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Google’s latest quality raters’ guidelines have been released, and have been updated to give raters new ways of flagging sites with content that could be considered upsetting, offensive or inaccurate. That there is upsetting, offensive or harmful content on the internet should be abundantly clear to anyone who’s ever innocently searched for the best way to celebrate a particularly bountiful lemon harvest; for how, as just one man, you...
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It’s out with the new and in with the old as once-great Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia takes us back to the halcyon days of slow texting, long battery life and phones that can stop a bullet. That’s right, the 3310 is back. Except that’s not quite true. It’s not really the 3310. It’s just a similar looking plastic phone. And it’s not really a statement of intent for the wistful (or even the ironic) luddite, it being announced...
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And why this is good news for advertisers From 2018 onwards, advertisers will no longer be able to prevent users from skipping 30-second ads they place at the beginning of videos on YouTube. Shorter videos (up to 20 seconds) will still be able to be made non-skippable. The decision was made in the name of making advertising work better for more people; ensuring that advertisers can get their point across while users do not feel...
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First they came for the Marmite, and I did not speak out – because I don’t really like Marmite. Then, they came for the Toblerone, and I did not speak out – because I never really buy Toblerones to be perfectly honest. Then they came for my freedom to watch porn anonymously… …………………………… With a series of decisions so far described variously as...
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Donald Trump soared to success on the wings of a campaign that didn’t just court controversy but slapped a dog collar on it and rode it all the way to the white house. And through it all, one vessel shone through, one medium that was so perfectly suited to the kind of message that Trump wanted to spread that in hindsight his victory seems almost fated. Keep your friends close, and… just keep your friends close. Trump, the self...
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