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Big Tech firms like Facebook and Google face an interesting few years – regardless of who wins the election

Big Tech: Between a rock and a hard place Whoever wins the US elections, Big Tech is about to get clobbered.

Ransomware crippled several major hospitals in the US and forced some patients to be diverted to alternative emergency rooms

A Ransomware Attack Has Struck a Major US Hospital Chain “All computers are completely shut down,” one Universal Health Services employee told WIRED.

Did you know BlackBerry phones are still around? Only now they're actually Android phones with the BlackBerry name. There's a new model coming next year

Some people never let BlackBerry go. Their reward? A 2021 comeback BlackBerry is back with a new BB-branded phone coming in 2021. For some people, it never went away

Europe plan to charge American tech giants more tax. Apple, Google and Amazon respond by passing on costs to customers

Apple, Google, and Amazon respond to European tech taxes by passing on costs Tech giants pass on costs to enterprise customers

Citing fears of civil unrest, Facebook has announced plans to stop new political ads being published in the 7 days leading up to the US election

Facebook to freeze political ads before US presidential election Its chief Mark Zuckerberg says he is worried about "the risk of civil unrest across the country".

As well as being a handy tool to search the web, Google can save lives. It's developed AI software that helps issue earlier and accurate flood warnings

Google uses A.I. to improve flood forecasting for India and Bangladesh The company has helped issue 27 million flood alerts, but it sees even greater need as global warming adds to flood risk.

Microsoft has launched a transcription service in Word. It'll convert live or pre-recorded audio into text you can edit directly in Word

Microsoft brings transcriptions to Word – TechCrunch Microsoft today launched Transcribe in Word, its new transcription service for Microsoft 365 subscribers, into general availability. It’s now available in the online version of Word, with other platforms launching later. In addition, Word is also getting new dictation features, which now allo…

When students realized they were getting grades from a computer, they started to hack better results

These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat Edgenuity involves short answers graded by an algorithm, and students have already cracked it

Need faster internet? Elon Musk's got a satellite for that

With latest Starlink launch, SpaceX touts 100 Mbps download speeds and ‘space lasers’ It doesn’t quite live up to the promised gigabit speeds, though.

YouTube is increasingly using technology to automatically remove controversial videos. This means less work for human moderators

YouTube is banking on tech to clean up controversial content, as moderators stay home YouTube said Tuesday that it is increasingly relying on technology to moderate content, resulting in a sharp rise in removed videos, including some that didn't violate its policies.

After strong growth in value since the pandemic hit, Apple is now more valuable than the entire FTSE 100 index in London

Apple more valuable than the entire FTSE 100 The world's largest company has seen its value leap as demand for tech goods surged during lockdown.