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Drowned out by the algorithm: Pro-vaccination advocates struggle to be heard online

On Facebook and YouTube, anti-vaccination proponents have spent more than a decade building audiences and developing strategies that ensure they appear high in search results and automated recommendations.

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What technology does La Liga use to put on football matches?

Euronews had a tour of the RCD Espanyol de Barcelona stadium to find out what technology is behind the Spanish men's top professional football division.

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Iceberg twice the size of New York City set to break off Antarctic ice shelf

Scientists are unsure what this could mean for the future health and stability of the Brunt Ice Shelf.

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Netflix lost the best picture battle, but its war with Hollywood is just getting started

"It doesn't really matter that 'Roma' didn't win best picture. Netflix has unleashed the power of a new business model that will be with us for a long time."

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In Virginia, Amazon faces some New York-style pushback

The "For Us, Not Amazon" coalition is calling for transparency from Amazon and politicians over their plans for the East Coast headquarters.

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'Dragon aurora' dancing over Iceland captured in stunning photo

It even seems to be breathing fire!

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Is it a phone, a tablet - or both? Huawei launches foldable smartphone

Huawei launches a foldable smartphone, hitting back at Samsung just days after it launched its Galaxy Fold.

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Startup impounds discarded e-scooters

Most e-scooter companies aren't paying up to retrieve their property, say the owners of ScootScoop.

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New refillable batteries could fuel an electric car revolution

New technology promises an end to motorists' 'range anxiety.'

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Microsoft employees demand military contract be dropped

"We did not sign up to develop weapons."

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Euroviews. The week that was: ‘the measure of a man is what he does with power'

We bring you our weekly View round-up of all the hot topics driving debate across Europe and beyond over the last seven days.

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YouTube pulls ads from anti-vaccination videos after questions about enforcement

Removing ads means the makers of anti-vaccine videos can't make money of their videos the way other YouTube creators can.

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Microsoft workers protest $480m HoloLens military deal

The open letter comes days before Microsoft is expected to unveil HoloLens 2, an upgraded version of its augmented reality headset, at an event Sunday.

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Some apps send data about menstruation, home buying to Facebook, WSJ reports

At least 11 popular phone apps with tens of millions of downloads are sharing personal data, often without prominent disclosure, according to the report.

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Israel flying to moon for first lunar landing after SpaceX launch

Israel seeks to become only the fourth country to successfully land on the moon, after Russia, the U.S. and China.

USA

The race is on for global 5G dominance — and Trump's in on it

"The implications is that new industries of the future, the new ways of making a living, will be in China and not here," one policy expert explained.

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World's largest bee, feared extinct and last seen in 1981, spotted

"I simply couldn't believe it: We had rediscovered Wallace's Giant Bee," wrote a photographer on the research team that spotted the insect last seen in 1981.

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Neptune's 'moon that shouldn't be there' points to solar system's violent past

Hippocamp is thought to be a fragment of a neighboring moon shattered by the impact of a comet.

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Google ends mandatory arbitration policy

Arbitration is a private, quasi-legal process that some workers and activist organizations say is used by companies to shield internal disputes from public scrutiny.

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Advertisers dump YouTube over questionable content featuring children

YouTube said it considers any content that endangers minors to be "abhorrent" and prohibited on its platform.