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People can type almost as fast on a phone screen as they do on a computer keyboard, suggests a study.

Average typing speeds on mobiles are now 38 words per minute (wpm) compared to about 52 on a

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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption King's Cross Estate's managers say the facial recognition scans ended in 2018

London's Metropolitan Police Service says it does not have any records of the outcomes of a facial recognition tie-up with a private firm in the city.

Last month, it acknowledged it had shared

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The company behind the Fifa video games says it is investigating why some players' personal information was exposed to other gamers.

Fans signing up for the new Fifa 20 Global Series found the online registration form was already filled in with other people's information.

Popular online gaming live-streamers were among those

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Image caption Matt states he posted his improvement to inspire others An individual fitness instructor states pictures he published on Instagram to mark his physical fitness improvement were taken and re-posted by fake accounts to promote diet plan pills which he had actually never ever taken. He told the Victoria Derbyshire programme such business feel
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Adrian Weckler: 'Facebook faces a higher level of responsibility but court decision raises human rights questions'
Facebook and other social media networks can now be ordered by national courts to take down illegal, banned and defamatory posts with worldwide effect.
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Taoiseach says fresh NBP delay down to 'challenge' from wireless operator Imagine
The wireless broadband operator Imagine has denied that it is freshly challenging the stateNational Broadband Plan, despite Taoiseach Leo Varadkar saying so in the Dail and attributing the current delay in signing the rural rollout contract delay to the operator.
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