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Apple and Google reveal contact tracing notification system built into phones

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Rise in defamation cases ‘linked to social media disputes’

Ciaran Martin

Rise in Covid-19 scams ‘vindicate National Cyber Security Centre creation’

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Third of mobile owners ‘still overpaying out-of-contract despite pledge’

The LG PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier

LG creates battery-powered face mask it calls a ‘wearable air purifier’

Susie Dent joins with Amazon's Alexa to add hundreds of British words

Countdown’s Susie Dent helps Amazon’s Alexa understand more UK regional dialects

TikTok Sale

Walmart may team up with Microsoft in bid for US arm of TikTok

Amazon Halo Band launches

Amazon launches wellness band that can read emotions from your voice

A test flight of a manned 'flying car'

Japan’s ‘flying car’ takes off with a person on board

Amazon's Mercedes-Benz electric van

Amazon orders more than 1,800 electric delivery vans from Mercedes-Benz

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AI funding boost aims to speed up cancer diagnoses

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Tesla autopilot driver was watching movie when he crashed, police say

Elon Musk

Elon Musk unveils brain-reading chip in pigs

TikTok

TikTok stars charged over Los Angeles house parties during pandemic

Social media regulation

Zuckerberg says Facebook made error by not removing militia post

Nissan dealers are fitting green number plates to electric vehicles to give motorists a preview of what they could look like when they are launched (Nissan/PA)

Car dealers trial green number plates on electric vehicles

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China complicates TikTok sale ordered by US

Huawei has pulled out of the sponsorship deal

Huawei pulls out of sporting sponsorship deal