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Google Nears Settlement of Ad-Tech Antitrust Case in France

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Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax

Fresh questions have been raised over Amazon’s tax planning after its latest corporate filings in Luxembourg revealed that the company collected record sales income of €44bn (£38bn) in Europe last year but did not have to pay any corporation...

Amazon to bring pay-by-palm technology to Whole Foods

Paying for something in the shops with just a wave of your hand is a step closer to everyday reality with the news that retail giant Amazon is trialing its palm-scanning payment technology in Whole Foods.The contactless payment method,...

A room with a view: the Twitter account that spent a year staring into people’s homes

With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton’s “Zoom room” is nicer than most. So when Room Rater – a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures – gave it nine out of...

How US Capitol attack surveillance methods could be used against protesters

Sign up for the Guardian's First Thing newsletterOver the past months, federal law enforcement has used a wide variety of surveillance technologies to track down rioters who participated in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol building –...
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Sydney’s huge Gaza protest shows there’s now no stopping the tide of public opinion | Sarah Malik

The rain couldn’t stop us. At least 100,000 people took over the CBD and marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge...
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