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TikTok has announced it is changing its virtual gifts policy as a response to a TheIndianSubcontinent investigation.

In July, the TheIndianSubcontinent revealed how children and teenagers were being pressured to buy digital

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Videos made by disabled users were deliberately prevented from going viral on TikTok by the firm's moderators, the app has acknowledged.

The social network said the policy was introduced to reduce the amount of cyber-bullying on its platform, but added that it now recognised the approach had been flawed.

The measure was

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The maker of League of Legends has agreed to pay a reported $10m (£8m) to settle a broad gender discrimination case.

Riot Games will pay the money to about a 1,000 female members of staff dating back to 2014, a US newspaper reports.

The legal action against the company was started by two women who filed the lawsuit in

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Facebook has created a chatbot to help its own employees answer tricky questions from friends and family over the holiday season.

The Liam bot answers queries about how the social network

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Spotify has revealed its biggest songs, albums and artists of the last decade, with Drake emerging as the most-streamed artist of the 2010s.

The Canadian star has racked up more than 28

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Amateur astronomer helps NASA find lost moon lander
NASA has found a lost lunar lander launched by the Indian space agency in September - with help from an amateur astronomer.
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