The General Court of the EU has issued its judgement in cases T-816/17Luxembourg v Commission and T-318/18 Amazon EU S
Estonia's parliament has passed a new Electronics Communications Act which will ensure that telecom equipment undergoes a security review inclusive of checks by the intelligence services before deployment to any future telecommuni...
In its most recent Community Standards Enforcement Report, Facebook has announced a significant increase in the amount of content removed for breaching its rules on hate speech: The number of pieces of content removed due to hate ...
The Tech Access Partnership (TAP) is a new initiative kicked off by the UN Technology Bank in collaboration with the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Health Organizati...
China launches two communication satellites for its space-based Internet of Things (IoT) project. The two satellites, Xingyun-2 01 and 02, are the Xingyun Engineering project's first satellites, conducted by the China Aerospace Sc...
Rwanda's Minister of Health, Daniel Ngamije, disclosed on 8 May that CRURZ robots will soon be used to treat COVID-19 patients in order to reduce human contact. The robots will be used to measure a patient's vitals such as tempera...
Facebook has settled a class action before the US San Mateo Superior Court and agreed to pay US$52 million in damages to current and former moderators that have developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to the nature...
Twitter announced that the company will start labelling tweets with COVID-19 disinformation. This new policy targets claims confirmed to be false by experts such as public health authorities or those that are contested or yet unkn...
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has launched a project to acquire Finland's first quantum computer. The project, to be carried out as an innovation partnership that VTT will open for international tender, is aimed to ...
Scientists from the Australian National University published a white paper on Australia's water reform. The paper outlines six principles that should function as the basis for water reform: (a) defining visions and goals for ...
The UK Gambling Commission has issued a new guideline to online operators to ensure consumers are protected. The new guideline comes after the commission published findings displaying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on consume...
Microsoft and the The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) group on decentralized identifiers (DIDs) announced their project on the solutions for digital identities based on bitcoin's blockchain. Microsoft presented its Ion open-source...