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Finally emoji diversity: Oju Africa releases Black emoticons

Emojis on mobiles devices have failed to represent Black people, until now. An African company has released the world’s first set of black emojis, following complaints that different races are …

Get your head out the clouds – US government can access your data

All personal information stored by British internet users on major “cloud” computing services including Google Drive can be spied upon routinely without their knowledge by US authorities …
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Google ‘knew Street Car camera software could capture online data’

Google is facing an inquiry into claims that it deliberately harvested information from millions of UK home computers. The Information Commissioner data protection watchdog is expected to examine the …

Met police get new pocket-sized fingerprint scanners

The Metropolitan Police Service is giving mobile fingerprint scanners to its officers, to use on those suspected of or wanted for criminal offences. On Wednesday the Met announced that it was …

London police will soon be able to extract mobile phone data in minutes

The London Metropolitan Police Service has announced that it will begin using a new tool that gives officers the ability to extract data from a mobile device in a matter of minutes. The service …

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On this day in 1949 Musician, poet and author Gil Scott-Heron was born.
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