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When it launched a new passport checking service, the Home Office knew that it had trouble handling some shades of skin, a report in the New Scientist has revealed.

The facial recognition technology failed to recognise the features of some people with very light or dark skin.

The problem had become apparent during trials

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Image copyrightComputational Propaganda Research ProjectImage caption One bogus posts featured an image of Eric Garner, who died after a policeman put him in a chokehold in 2014

A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted "no single group more than African-Americans."

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"I can be gaming for anything like six to 14 hours on any day."

"It's the priority of my life - I wake up and think about it, I go to bed and think about it," James Wisniewski, 28, tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

He says gaming "consumes" him and stops him from dating anyone seriously.

"I don't want a

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A mobile version of video game Call of Duty has been downloaded more than 100 million times in its first week.

However, a boycott aimed at the game's publisher, Activision Blizzard, has been launched after Blizzard placed a

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Tough tech: EU regulator sets out plans to take on the global giants
The EU's powerful antitrust chief said Tuesday she's weighing up stronger measures to curb anticompetitive behaviour because huge fines that she has levied on tech multinationals aren't working.
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Broadband contract to be signed 'in weeks'
THE €3bn National Broadband Plan (NBP) contract is set to be signed within weeks, Junior Communications Minister Seán Canney has said.
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