Digital Planet
By BBC World Service
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Jan 5, 2020
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Technological and digital news from around the world.
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Tech Life
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May 05, 2023 |
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Digital Planet says goodbye
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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3D printed food – what’s cooking?
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Jimmy Wales on bots and blockages
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Digital identity: Where are we now?
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Ukraine’s drone spotting app
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Data in disaster zones
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Internet shutdowns around the world
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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What’s the future of bots on Twitter?
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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A smart glove to save babies
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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What happens when the Bitcoin miners leave?
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Self-driving cars could be a massive source of global carbon emissions
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Getting online in Ukraine’s blackouts
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Agritech Special Edition
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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The Tech of 2022
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Eight million SIMs blocked in Ghana
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Shopee in Thailand – is it safe?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Predicting cyclones with mobiles
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Robots that can assemble almost anything.
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Twitter – what next?
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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The Open Internet for Africa
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Controlling protesters in Iran via phones
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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The Twitter takeover
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Chip exports and US-China relations
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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5bn mobile phones to become waste in 2022
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Internet under attack in Ukraine
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Pandemic pushes women online
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Tiny robots cure mice with deadly pneumonia
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Gamification – does making things fun work?
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Happy birthday Digital Planet!
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Inoculation videos against misinformation
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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India’s cyber scam scourge
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Misinformation on the midterms on social media
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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How Nancy Pelosi’s flight was tracked
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Is disability tech delivering?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Grassroots data – holding the powerful to account
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Self-driving cars on the horizon?
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Are internet shutdowns evolving?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Deepfake calls to European mayors?
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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What’s the deal with the metaverse?
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Japan tackles online insults
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Archiving music in glass
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Data-driven football
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May 31, 2022 |
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Detecting earthquakes with seafloor internet cables
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May 24, 2022 |
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Reclaiming African art in digital form
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May 18, 2022 |
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North Korean digital control
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May 10, 2022 |
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Electric road trip on Jersey
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May 03, 2022 |
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Can we predict Twitter’s future?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Audio beats - the new digital drugs?
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Africa’s first cyber-security declaration
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Robot boat to survey Tonga volcano
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Facial recognition identifies dead Russian soldiers
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Splinternet Risks
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Calls for facial recognition tech ban on Brazilian metro
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Tracking Russian disinformation and propaganda sites
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Ukraine’s massive global tech presence
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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The bionic eye that’s obsolete
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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India to launch digital rupee
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Tonga internet satellite kit deployed
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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First-ever unassisted robotic surgery
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Internet connectivity still patchy in Tonga
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Twitter returns to Nigeria
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Robots under the Thwaites Glacier
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Afrofuturism and tech innovation
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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A tech review of 2021
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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The Internet Archive is 25!
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Brazil: Where is all the Covid data?
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Mobile phones not always beneficial to displaced people
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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PIX instant payment limits to reduce kidnappings
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Smart speakers used in gaslighting
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Distress of TikTok fake school accounts
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Blockchain’s e-waste a growing problem
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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How green is our data?
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Online safety laws
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Women's safety online
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Economic cost of the digital gender gap
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Census goes digital in India
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Spyware threatening independent media
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Can AI predict Arctic ice loss?
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Tech on the island of Jersey
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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The Children’s Code protecting kids online
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Digital us
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Why the Taliban love social media
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Uganda, too much surveillance?
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Brazil’s Data Protection Law comes into force
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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How Jersey is leading tech development
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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IoT saves driver after kidnapping in Mexico
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Internet shutdowns in Latin America
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Fighting for the right to repair
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Big tech platforms to protect women online
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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YouTube’s rules silencing human rights activists
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Bias in AI – what next?
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Bitcoin’s environmental cost
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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NFT? That’ll do nicely
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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WhatsApp v Indian government
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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The first African voice assistant
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May 25, 2021 |
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WhatsAppening with pandemic misinformation?
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May 18, 2021 |
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Urgent calls for mandatory recycling of e-waste
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May 11, 2021 |
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Tech does not impact teenage mental health
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May 04, 2021 |
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Indians tweeting for oxygen
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Malware on mobiles
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Overcoming internet shutdowns in Myanmar
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Phones sending data every 4.5 minutes
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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China’s online restrictions increase
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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AI chatbot takes witness statements
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Is Bitcoin energy use unsustainable?
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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The cost of bias in AI fintech
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Will algorithms always be biased?
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Facebook reverses ban on news in Australia
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Comparing the landscape of Mars to Earth
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Wikipedia’s new universal code of conduct
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Internet shutdowns in Myanmar and India
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Loon Balloon internet deflated
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Online manipulation on a global scale
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Has tech been compromised in the US Capitol?
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Blindness in the digital age
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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The best tech stories of 2020
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Solar grid brings power to Yemen
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Dispelling COVID-19 vaccine myths online
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Is the internet affordable where you live?
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Almost two-thirds of the world’s population now online
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Increase in stalkerware installations
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Video games can be good for you
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Voyager 2 contacted after seven months
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Who is most susceptible to fake news?
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Why do we vote with paper in the age of the smart phone?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Go Viral! online game
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Predicting US elections results every hour
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Can AI predict criminal behaviour?
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Mapping Covid-19 to your phone
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Keeping the structure of the internet safe
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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AI captain to sail the Atlantic
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Scammers scamming the scammers
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Algorithm apocalypse
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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A year without internet in Kashmir
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Why India can’t work from home
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Tracking the trolls
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Covid 19: Mapping changing sentiment in tweets
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Ethiopia’s continuing online censorship
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Can we make the web a better space?
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Exploring digital death
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Nigerian internet land rights costs fall
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Is this the end of facial recognition tech?
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Algorithm activism – a new type of protest
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Digital exclusion in Brazil
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Hacking internet-enabled cars
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May 26, 2020 |
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Testing EdTech
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May 19, 2020 |
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Spain’s many COVID-19 apps
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May 12, 2020 |
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Chinese mobile data predicts Covid-19 Spread
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May 05, 2020 |
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Privacy concerns over contact tracing apps
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Could fitness trackers track COVID-19?
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Supercomputers seeking solutions for Covid-19
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Internet and journalist reporting freedom curtailed
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Covid-19 cyber attacks rise
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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A digital tracker that monitors new surveillance
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Coronovirus tech handbook online
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Covid-19 makes tech events go virtual
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Will digital sobriety help reduce energy use?
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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Ethiopia’s new law banning online hate speech
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Feminist chatbots
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Repairing Voyager 2
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Drones dealing with locust swarms
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Internet partially restored in Kashmir
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Internet shutdowns cost $8bn in 2019
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Tech tracking Australian fires
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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South Africa power cuts
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Why is AI so far from perfect?
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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Digital Planet’s 18th Birthday Show
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Improving crop yields with mobile phones
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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New Phone in China? Scan your face…
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Humanitarian drone corridor in Africa
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Google bug bounty hunters
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Iran internet shutdown continues
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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The digital gender divide
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Facebook Live on crime tech
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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BBC News on the ‘dark web’
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Health of the Internet report
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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First all African smartphone factory
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Iraq shuts down internet
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Mobile data costs falling globally
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Investigating marine accidents – sea tech latest
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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The latest in disability tech
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Brain implant regulation calls
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Digital Planet’s 18th birthday show
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Brazilian fire monitoring in real time
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Harnessing tech during conflict
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Millions of Instagram users’ activity tracked
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Jakarta power cut - millions without electricity
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Chandrayaan-2: India’s moon landing
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Chinese surveillance app analysed by researchers
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Tax on connectivity in Africa
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Jun 25, 2019 |