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Japan breaks internet speed record with a 319Tbps data transfer | Engadget

The many-gigabit internet speed records of a decade ago now seem downright inadequate. Motherboard reports that scientists at Japan’s National…

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New N.Y.C. data looking at the first half of the year shows how few fully vaccinated people were infected.

Vaccines offered powerful protection against the coronavirus in New York City, blunting the second wave of the virus and saving…

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China will tighten data privacy rules for tech companies seeking foreign investment | Engadget

China is tightening restrictions on businesses seeking to go public overseas amid a wave of Chinese origin IPOs in the…

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Audacity sparks uproar over new data collection policy | Engadget

Recent changes to the Audacity privacy policy have led to some users the audio-editing app spyware. The open-source software is…

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USA

Delta most common COVID-19 variant in US, data show

The highly transmissible Delta variant is the most common strain of the COVID-19 virus circulating in the U.S., new data…

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Senator proposes law to safeguard journalists’ data from the government | Engadget

Today, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) proposed a new bill, called the Protect Reporters from Excessive State Suppression (PRESS) Act, that…

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Mozilla’s Rally will share your data with scientists instead of advertisers | Engadget

By this point in the internet’s history, most of us have come to terms with the fact that accessing the…

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USA

COVID-19 gene data removed from NIH database on Chinese researchers’ request

Chinese researchers directed the U.S. National Institutes of Health to delete gene sequences of early COVID-19 cases from a key scientific database,…

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USA

US births dropped 8% 9 months into pandemic, CDC data shows

While an earlier Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report reflected a 4% drop in U.S. births last year,…

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EU data regulators call for facial recognition ban in public spaces | Engadget

European Union data protection regulators have called for a general ban on using artificial intelligence for facial recognition and other…

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