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Apple launches Restore Fund to boost natural response to climate change

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Google Earth reveals vivid changes to planet in interactive, explorable 3D

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Instagram apologises for ‘mistake’ leading to promotion of harmful diet content

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Ireland’s online privacy watchdog to investigate Facebook over data breach

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Users could soon hide ‘like’ counts on Instagram and Facebook

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Streamer breaks Twitch record with month-long broadcast

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Sony unveils trio of new Xperia smartphones

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Few parents regularly talk to children about spending in games and apps – poll

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Apple confirms special event for April 20

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Sony to roll out first major software update of PS5 since launch

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Facebook Oversight Board expands to allow appeals over content still on platform

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Siri ‘lets slip date of next Apple event’

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Facebook News adds local news section in the UK

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Microsoft buying speech recognition company Nuance in deal worth £11.6bn

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NHS Covid-19 app update which breaks Apple and Google rules delayed

Playing video games has become a vital resource for young people to socialise with friends during the latest lockdown, according to new research

More than half of children ‘want gaming on the school curriculum’

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UK and security partners urge more action from tech giants on child sex abuse

The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with Soyuz MS-18 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station flies at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

American and Russians dock at International Space Station