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Instagram requires date of birth from all users as new child safety rules loom

Instagram requires date of birth from all users as new child safety rules loom

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Google to invest £859m in cloud computing infrastructure in Germany

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Birthday ice cream delivery for space station astronaut

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Porn sites ‘must do more to stop access by children’

People wearing face masks using their smartphones as they walk on a bridge in Shanghai in China

Chinese regulators to exercise greater control over tech firms’ algorithms

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NHS Covid-19 app pings increase in Wales

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 smartphone

Should you buy… The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3?

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OnlyFans suspends future ban on sexually explicit content

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Fitbit unveils new tools to boost fitness and wellbeing after stress of pandemic

Joseph Bentley, aged 22 from Essex, designs device that can quickly stem blood loss from stab victims

Device that rapidly stops blood loss from stab wounds wins UK Dyson Award

Numbers have risen sharply in the last three years.

Internet grooming levels reach record high sparking calls for stricter online regulation

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Record levels of internet grooming spark calls for stronger Online Safety Bill

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Grooming crimes in Scotland up 80% in five years to highest on record

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Civil liberties groups demand ban on facial recognition technology

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PayPal to allow UK users to buy and sell cryptocurrency for first time

Taliban fighters display their flag on patrol in Kabul

Official Taliban websites go offline for unknown reasons

Creators have warned OnlyFans will close down if it upholds its ban on sexually explicit content

OnlyFans will shut down without sexually explicit content, sex workers say

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OnlyFans sex workers plan to find alternative platform amid explicit content ban