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NHS Covid-19 app: How England and Wales’ contact-tracing service works
It has been a long time coming but England and Wales' Covid-19 app will launch on Thursday.It follows in the footsteps of Scotland and Northern Ireland's own efforts but has more features.Apple and Google's automated contact-tracing!-->…
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Brexit letter warns of 7,000-truck queues in Kent
Exporters to the EU face 7,000-truck-long queues in Kent and two-day delays to trade after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has warned.
Imports will also be disrupted in January, according to a letter from cabinet!-->!-->!-->…
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Coronavirus: ‘Government must publish contact-tracing app data’
A leading health charity is demanding details about how England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests.The app is due to launch on Thursday.It has been trialled in the London Borough of Newham as well as the Isle of Wight, but data!-->…
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Microsoft buys Fallout creator Bethesda for $7.5bn
Xbox-owner Microsoft has acquired the games company behind blockbuster titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim and Wolfenstein.
It is paying $7.5bn (£5.85bn) for Bethesda's parent ZeniMax Media.
Xbox has said that the publisher's!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Amazon criticised over ‘Black Lives Don’t Matter’ caps
A barrister has criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan "Black Lives Don't Matter", marketed as being elegant and a "nice present".Alexandra Wilson, from Essex, said it was "honestly embarrassing" the company was selling the!-->…
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WeChat: Judge blocks US attempts to ban downloads of Chinese app
A judge has blocked a US government attempt to ban the Chinese messaging and payments app, WeChat.
US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said the ban raised serious questions related to the constitution's first amendment, guaranteeing free!-->!-->!-->…
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TikTok: Trump says Oracle deal for video app ‘has my blessing’
US President Donald Trump has expressed his approval of a deal that would allow Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok to continue operating in the US.
Mr Trump told reporters he had given his "blessing" to a partnership between TikTok!-->!-->!-->…
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Hackers leak personal data of 1,000 Belarusian police on weekend of protests
“As the arrests continue, we will continue to publish data on a massive scale,” said a statement that was distributed by the opposition news channel Nexta Live on the messaging app Telegram. “No one will remain anonymous even under a!-->…
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Google and Facebook under pressure to ban children’s ads
Tech firms have been urged to stop advertising to under-18s in an open letter signed by MPs, academics and children's-rights advocates.Behavioural advertising not only undermines privacy but puts "susceptible" youngsters under unfair!-->…
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Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade
Nintendo has discontinued its 3DS handheld after about 76 million sales over a nine-and-a-half year period.A notice on the Japanese firm's site says "manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended".The device had the ability!-->…
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