Sports giant Adidas has been accused of erasing women after using a male model to launch a women’s swimwear line. The swimsuit range is part of Adidas’s ‘Pride 2023’ collection, and is for sale on the website in the women’s section. According to The Mail Online: Adidas has sparked calls for a boycott after launching … Read more
Trolls who encourage people to harm themselves online face up to five years in jail under a new criminal offence announced by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). According to The Telegraph: The offence, to be introduced on Thursday as part of the online safety bill, will apply to anyone who encourages someone to self-harm regardless … Read more
BT is to cut up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade, mostly in the UK. As many as a fifth of those cuts will come in customer services. Staff will be replaced by technologies including artificial intelligence. According to the BBC: The headcount reduction from the current workforce of 130,000 includes staff … Read more
Transport Minister Jesse Norman has told MP’s that the UK will need to weather a storm of scare stories and moral panic when the first self-driving vehicles are legalised. According to The Times: Fully autonomous vehicles are banned on UK roads, although legislation to approve the technology could be introduced as early as 2025. Asked … Read more
The BBC has created a team of 60 journalists to counteract fake news. The team includes the corporation’s analysis editor, and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring. According to The Telegraph: They will appear regularly on BBC news programmes, explaining how they have investigated and fact-checked stories. The team will use “a range of forensic and Open … Read more
Montana is set to become the first US state to ban TikTok from personal devices. TikTok is owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance Governor Greg Gianforte signed the ban into law on Wednesday. It is due to take effect on 1 January. According to The BBC: The video-sharing platform says the ban “infringes on the … Read more
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