Hate crime is defined as an offence which the victim considers to be driven by hostility towards their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity. The religions that police count hate crimes for are: Buddhist; Christian; Hindu; Jewish; Muslim and Sikh. They also have categories of “no religion”, “other”…
It’s going to be harder for trolls to disrupt Periscope broadcasts. The Twitter -owned live-streaming app has offered chat moderation capabilities for years, but it has so far relied on group moderation. That means when users flagged a comment as abuse, spam or harassment, Periscope would randomly select a few…
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Atlassian previewed the next generation of its hosted Jira Software project tracking tool earlier this year. Today, it’s available to all Jira users. To build the new Jira, Atlassian redesigned both the back-end stack and rethought the user experience from the ground up. That’s not an easy change, given how…
(CNN)A Taylor Swift bump, a Nikki Haley bombshell, some bad-new polls for Republicans about women voters. Women (and girls!) dominated the week’s news. But Melania Trump and Michelle Obama had the most arresting turns in the spotlight, showing just how different two first ladies can be. And in the New…
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, one-off powerful emissions of radio waves that come to us from far-away galaxies. Being such fleeting events, they have been difficult to spot and study directly. Now, new observations have almost doubled the number of known bursts. Not even three dozen FRBs were known…
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