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We are still not yet sure what does and does not belong on the internet when it comes to coronavirus.

Tech This Week | Now is the time for misinformation reform

Because of liberal laws based on principles of free speech on most dominant online platforms, misinformation is often...

13 Jun 2020 7:31 PM IST

Poor people in Chennai living on the banks of a canal in makeshift homes. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - Milei Vencel)

Technology

Will someone help them out? Without smartphones, these poor students...

No one in the families of these seven students, and others like them, owns or can afford a smartphone.

13 Jun 2020 6:57 PM IST

The lockdown induced by the COVID-19 pandemic in March prompted schools and colleges to move to the virtual world for teaching and learning activities. However, many experts say the digital divide in the country may turn online classes into an operational nightmare as there are over 35 crore students in the country.

Technology

COVID turns back time to when only the privileged could get an...

When 56 per cent of children have no digital access, online education is exclusionary.

13 Jun 2020 4:44 PM IST

A protesters sign is shown at Peachtree Plaza during a demonstration Saturday, June 6, 2020, in downtown Atlanta. Protesters were demonstrating against the death of George Floyd, who died after he was restrained by Minneapolis police on May 25. (Photo | AP)

Technology

Websites taken down, police radio radio disrupted amid Black Lives...

There were interruptions to police radio frequencies in the last weekend of May as despatchers tried to direct responses...

12 Jun 2020 8:50 PM IST

The H-1B visa is much sought-after among Indian IT professionals. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons)

Technology

As US looks to suspend H-1B visas, Nasscom seeks exemptions for tech...

It said without H-1B, L1 workers, economic pain would worsen, industry would slow, and the timeline for treatment and...

12 Jun 2020 7:39 PM IST

This inequality is a barrier to wider equality, and we know it most affects those who are already marginalized _ people in developing countries, those on low incomes, and of course, women and girls, Tim Berners-Lee said. Men remain 21 percent more likely than women to be online, and 52 percent more likely in the least developing countries. (File Photo | AP)

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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says digital divide should be...

Some 3.5 billion people nearly half the world have missed out on the lifeline the internet has provided during the...

12 Jun 2020 6:54 PM IST

CEO Tim Cook said he grew up in Alabama during the Civil Rights movement, and said the burden of change must not fall on the underrepresented. (Photo | AFP)

Technology

To make the workplace more inclusive, Apple starts USD 100 million...

The initiative's goal is to challenge systemic barriers to opportunity faced by communities of colour, particularly...

12 Jun 2020 5:36 PM IST

$Ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd have focused attention on racial injustice in the US and how police use technology to track people. In this picture, doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in a \White Coats for Black Lives\ event in solidarity with George Floyd and other black Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California on June 11, 2020. (Photo | AFP)$ Technology