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A YouTube video suggesting that face recognition cameras installed in HP laptops cannot detect black faces has had over one million views. The short movie, uploaded earlier this month, features “Black Desi” and his colleague “White Wanda”. When Wanda, a white woman, is in front of the screen, the camera zooms to her face [...]
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The Teletext information service on analogue and digital television will close across the UK on 16 December. Limited services including holidays, racing and bookmaking and the subtitles on analogue channels will remain available. Teletext’s chat and dating TV channels on Freeview will also be unaffected. Speaking to the BBC in Jersey, Karen Rankin, the [...]
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A staggering majority of UK consumers are not getting the best out of their high-definition (HD) televisions, according to a survey. Although 56% of UK households now have an HD television, 91% still watch standard DVDs and get their television through standard set-top boxes. Full HD broadcasting can be viewed from Sky, Virgin and [...]
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Black Friday discounts bleed a little red as tough times in retailing call for sharp cuts on prices at a few big tech shops. These ten top deals show just how much pressure is riding on holiday sales. No. 10: Apple Apple is traditionally the stingiest of tech discounters in the gadget market, and this [...]
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Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school. President Tabaré Vázquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 October. Over the last two years 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers have been involved in the scheme. The “Plan Ceibal” [...]
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YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder of the website. Chad Hurley’s blog marks the third anniversary of YouTube’s controversial acquisition by Google. The site was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65bn – a price it later described as “a premium”. Earlier [...]
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Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is going on sale in more than 100 countries around the world, including the UK. The reader has been confined to the US since its launch in November 2007; Amazon expects to have sold a million of the devices by the end of the year. The global version will run on [...]
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British broadcaster Sky has struck a deal with Microsoft that will see live football, TV and film content brought to the Xbox 360. The deal marks the Xbox’s first move into live linear broadcast TV. Rival consoles, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii, can access catch-up TV content via the BBC’s iPlayer. Sky’s channels will [...]
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