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Uber’s loss of a UK labour case could impact gig firms

4 min read . Updated: 23 Feb 2021

Mental health treatment via the internet is inadvisable

4 min read . Updated: 08 Feb 2021

Implications of GPT-3 for the future of programming

4 min read . Updated: 25 Jan 2021

A file photo of US President Donald Trump. (AP)

Twitter blocks Trump but it’s a case of too little too late

4 min read . Updated: 11 Jan 2021

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai (AFP)

Ajit Pai’s exit might restore the US internet’s neutrality

4 min read . Updated: 28 Dec 2020

The hazy ethics of tech-enhanced human performance

4 min read . Updated: 14 Dec 2020

Digital advertising is already in the throes of a third revolution

4 min read . Updated: 30 Nov 2020

The California vote that went against its gig workers

4 min read . Updated: 16 Nov 2020

US President Donald Trump (Photo: Reuters)

Trump stormed the internet just before US election day

4 min read . Updated: 03 Nov 2020

Google pays billions of dollars each year to distributors, including device manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung (Bloomberg)

The thick alphabet soup that Google has found itself in

4 min read . Updated: 26 Oct 2020

The problem is that social networks don’t have journalistic norms. (AFP)

The US may be blazing a trail to regulate social media

4 min read . Updated: 20 Oct 2020

A better way of getting tech ready than learning to code

4 min read . Updated: 05 Oct 2020

The TikTok saga and why the net must run on democratic ideals

5 min read . Updated: 21 Sep 2020

A file photo of White House. (Photo: AP)

Even big data can’t foretell who’ll win the White House

4 min read . Updated: 07 Sep 2020

Photo: Hindustan Times

The misguided use of algorithms to fix broken systems

4 min read . Updated: 24 Aug 2020

Photo: Bloomberg

Deep tech may stumble on insufficient computing power

4 min read . Updated: 10 Aug 2020

What was once a difficulty only for social media is now a pressing problem for news outlets as well.

Opinion | The deep fakes that publications must guard against

4 min read . Updated: 03 Aug 2020

Data is now synonymous with national interest, and we will see a protectionist environment in the short to medium term.

Opinion | Data nationalism could hobble the world’s progress

4 min read . Updated: 20 Jul 2020

The European Union has been leading the way in data privacy, China in censoring and surveilling citizens, and America in having legislative hearings to determine how much Big-Tech should be let to get away with (Photo: iStock)

Opinion | What has awakened America Inc’s online conscience?

4 min read . Updated: 06 Jul 2020

Opinion | The futile withdrawal of facial recognition software by Big Tech

4 min read . Updated: 22 Jun 2020

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