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Shrinking sea meadows store more carbon than forests. Scientists are racing to track what’s left
Shrinking sea meadows store more carbon than forests. Scientists are racing to track what’s left

A remote-powered camera glides through the sunlit, turquoise waters of this corner of the western Indian Ocean, capturing rare footage of what scientists believe is the world's largest seagrass meadow.

The Apple Inc. logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, U.S.,
Apple to start enforcing new app privacy notifications in coming weeks

Apple Inc said on Wednesday that in the coming weeks it will start enforcing a new privacy notification rule that digital advertising firms such as Facebook Inc have warned will hurt their sales.

An iceberg floats in a fjord near the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland,
UK pensions regulator warns pension schemes on climate disclosures

Britain's pensions regulator will consider enforcement action against pension schemes that do not make mandatory climate risk disclosures, it said on Wednesday.

Attendees walk past a Twitch logo painted on stairs during opening day of E3, the annual video games expo revealing the latest in gaming software and hardware
Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site

Live-streaming service Twitch will ban users for offenses such as hate-group membership or credible threats of mass violence that occur entirely away from the site, in a new approach to moderating the platform, the company said on Wednesday.

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A screen displays the company logo for Uber Technologies Inc at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S
Uber dangles higher pay to lure U.S. drivers back, but warns it will not last

Uber Technologies Inc said U.S. drivers on their ride-hail platforms should take advantage of pay hikes as trip demand temporarily outstrips driver supply, but warned the windfall will not last.

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Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

Facebook Inc did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently made public in a database, and does not currently have plans to do so, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

Scientists call for new probe into COVID-19 origins: with or without China
Scientists call for new probe into COVID-19 origins: with or without China

The joint study, released last week, said the likeliest transmission route for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, involved bats and other wildlife in China and southeast Asia. It all but ruled out the possibility it had leaked from a laboratory.

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India court says ByteDance must deposit $11 million in tax evasion case

An Indian court on Tuesday said China's ByteDance must deposit around $11 million that authorities believe the company owes in an alleged case of tax evasion, a decision the government said bars the firm from using existing bank funds for other purposes.

A vial with the AstraZeneca's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is pictured in Berlin, Germany,
Clear link between AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots in brain, EMA official tells paper

There is a link between AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain but the possible causes are still unknown, a senior official for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in an interview published on Tuesday.

A YouTube logo seen at the YouTube Space LA in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles, California, United States
YouTube discloses prevalence of rule-breaking videos for first time

About 1.6 million views on YouTube out of every 1 billion are of a video that violates its content policies, about even with a year ago, the streaming service owned by Alphabet Inc's Google said in a new disclosure on Tuesday.

The brand logo of Alphabet Inc's Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018.
Google AI scientist Bengio resigns after colleagues' firings - email

Google research manager Samy Bengio on Tuesday said he is resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet Inc unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned paper review and diversity practices.

A view of a coral colony on the coast of Havana, Cuba
Climate change shrinks marine life richness near equator - study

During some summers, as the Caribbean water temperatures climb, the luminous coral colonies of gold, green and blue that ring the island nation of Cuba give way to patches of skeletal white.

The logo of car manufacturer Tesla is seen at a branch office in Bern, Switzerland
Tesla shares surge after company posts record deliveries

Tesla Inc's stock surged 5% on Monday after the electric car maker posted record quarterly deliveries on strong demand in China that helped offset the impact of a global shortage in auto parts.

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Russia extends punitive Twitter slowdown until mid-May

Russia said on Monday it would extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15, though it acknowledged the U.S. social media company had speeded up deletion of what Moscow calls banned content.

 The Google logo is displayed outside the company offices in New York, U.S.,
U.S. Supreme Court backs Google over Oracle in major copyright case

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc's Google a major victory on Monday, ruling that its use of Oracle Corp's software code to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world's smartphones did not violate federal copyright law.

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