The chief executives of Twitter, Facebook, and Google faced US lawmakers at a hearing on Thursday, where they were grilled about the mishandling of fake news and online extremism.
LawtechUK, the government-backed project to boost the UK legal sector via technology, has finished the three-month pilot stage of the first Lawtech Sandbox. The pilot, launched in December last year, has helped the development of several early-stage LawTech scaleups.
Brits are the least likely to be optimistic about a future that includes ‘augmented people,’ compared to people in Austria, France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain, according to new research.
Employment law is failing to keep pace with the rapid expansion of AI at work, which could lead to “widespread” discrimination and unfair treatment in the workplace, according to research commissioned by the TUC.
Amazon delivery drivers are reportedly being forced to sign biometric consent forms or risk losing their jobs. Last month the e-commerce giant announced it was installing AI-powered cameras across its delivery vans to monitor drivers.
NASA has said that 8 April will be the earliest it makes the world’s first ever attempt to complete a controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. Before the four-pound Ingenuity Mars Helicopter attempts its first flight, both it and its team need to meet a series of milestones.
Amazon is to cut its stake in Deliveroo from 15.8 per cent to 11.5 per cent after it goes public next month, according to plans outlined in the food delivery company's IPO prospectus.
The number of UK technology job listings dropped by 57 per cent in 2020, according to new research from Accenture. There were fewer than 55,000 roles advertised last year, with the overall decline driven by a reduced number of job listings for data analytics and cyber security professionals, which dropped 53 per cent and 54 per cent respectively.
Former US president Donald Trump is reportedly launching his own social media website. Trump’s adviser Jason Miller told Fox News that it is likely that the ex-president will be “returning to social media in probably about two or three months.”
Facebook has announced that between October and December 2020, it took down more than 1.3 billion fake accounts. The announcement comes as the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce plans to examine how technology platforms including Facebook are tackling misinformation online later this week.
A plan by Google to block the tracking “cookies” tool is raising concerns at the US Justice Department, according to a report by Reuters. Investigators at the department have asked advertising execs if the block would negatively impact the tech giant’s smaller rivals, people familiar with the situation told the news agency.
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has warned that digital vaccine passports come with both ethical and data privacy challenges. The institute said that these passports could mean entry to cinemas or pubs is “denied by an algorithmic decision.”
There were 13,343 cases of social media and email hacking last year, according to research which analysed data across 43 police forces in England and Wales. The data, obtained from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and analysed by AddictiveTips.com, found that the accumulative financial loss that victims suffered was more than £3.5 million.