FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement ~tech social media privacy Article 233 words 29 votes
Norway may stop British and EU vessels fishing in its waters from January 1st – talks held up by London's protracted Brexit standoff with Brussels ~news norway politics united kingdom Article 295 words 8 votes
PayPal to introduce £9 a year fee for 'inactive' accounts ~finance business Article 294 words 18 votes
Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine ~humanities.history Article 374 words 12 votes
Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials ~science medicine Article 383 words 7 votes
China has accused Danish politicians of violating 'the basic norms governing international relations' in a dispute over Hong Kong opposition activist Ted Hui ~news denmark politics hong kong china Article 293 words 6 votes
Ari Eldjárn: Pardon My Icelandic review – footie, Thor and Scandi noir ~tv reviews Article 362 words 4 votes
Norway hires Ståle Solbakken to replace Lars Lagerbäck as coach of the national football team – Lagerbäck leaves after failing to qualify for next year's European Championship ~sports.football Article 182 words 4 votes
Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges ~tech google privacy Article 278 words 18 votes
Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the 1987 horror flick Hellraiser, has successfully leveraged copyright law to recapture the American rights to the franchise ~movies horror Article 302 words 8 votes
US Rep. Ocasio-Cortez raises $200K after battling NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in hit video game Among Us ~games Article 222 words 17 votes
Project Latte by Microsoft aims to bring Android apps to Windows and the Microsoft Store ~tech android microsoft Article 321 words 11 votes
Norway will extradite a man to France who is suspected of taking part in an attack that killed six people in a Jewish restaurant in Paris thirty-eight years ago ~news norway crime palestine france.paris Article 297 words 7 votes
Austrian village of 'Fucking' decides to change its name ~life Article 369 words, published Nov 2 2020 15 votes
Jeopardy! will start filming new episodes with Ken Jennings as interim host ~tv Article 316 words 21 votes
Neo: The World Ends With You heading to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch ~games Article 157 words 8 votes
BuzzFeed to acquire HuffPost in multi-year partnership with Verizon Media ~news journalism Article 307 words 10 votes
Panasonic explores a European battery deal with Norway's largest energy and industrial companies ~finance business Article 358 words 4 votes
This should keep you busy for a while. With 9,036 pieces, Lego’s Roman Colosseum set is its largest ever. ~hobbies Article 267 words, published Nov 13 2020 12 votes
Want to see women in STEM achieving cool things? 2020 Pass It On Award Winners: The cash award helps fund women in computing or projects that inspire and support girls and women to enter computing. ~tech Article 261 words 6 votes
YouTube Rewind 2020 cancelled, very likely due to COVID-19 ~tech social media Article 294 words 10 votes
Iconic Arecibo Dish suffers more damage as second cable breaks ~space astronomy.radio Article 361 words 13 votes
Sweden has shut down one of four nuclear reactors at its largest power station after over forty years of operation, with operators citing a lack of profitability ~finance business Link 8 votes
ULA Atlas 5 with new GEM-36 solid rocket boosters launches NROL-101 satellite ~space spaceflight.military satellites Article 278 words 4 votes
Norway has banned hate speech against bisexual and trans people in a landmark change to its penal code ~lgbt transgender Article 381 words 22 votes
Belgium has expelled five Danish far-right activists and banned them for a year over their plans to burn a Quran in a mainly-Muslim area of Brussels ~society politics Article 33 words 10 votes
Denmark's plans to cull seventeen million mink is facing legal obstacles after the government admitted it did not have a legal basis for the order ~health Article 226 words 10 votes
Husband of Wanda, everyone's Grandmother, died of Covid (old news) ~life Article 399 words, published Apr 9 2020 3 votes
Company made to change name that could be used for XSS vulnerabilities ~tech Article 162 words 11 votes
Netflix prepares to add an audio-only mode for background listening ~tech android Article 377 words, published Oct 27 2020 13 votes
Polish government delays abortion ban after two weeks of protests across the country ~health Article 273 words 26 votes