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"China is betting on AI and investing in AI and deploying AI on a scale no other country is doing," says Abishur Prakash, a futurist and author of books about the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) on geopolitics.

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Apple has banned an app that let people monitor others' activity on Instagram.

Like Patrol charged a fee to notify users which posts their friends had "liked" and who they had recently followed.

The action comes a month after Instagram had tried to force the app to shut down after accusing it of scraping people's data without their consent.

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Just over 10% of British homes now have a full-fibre broadband connection, a study suggests.

The figures were compiled by consumer broadband advice site Think Broadband.com, which counts only "live" connections

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's Singles' Day shopping frenzy has broken records in its 11th year.

The world's biggest online shopping event raked in more than $30.8bn (210bn yuan; £23bn) in sales in 16.5 hours of trading, surpassing last year's all-time-high.

A gala featuring pop star Taylor Swift launched the 24-hour

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A "mummy blogger" has apologised for using a different social-media platform to anonymously make negative comments about fellow Instagram influencers.

In a post on Instagram, Clemmie Hooper says she hoped to change opinions on the other platform "from the inside".

"Thousands of comments" about herself, her husband, Simon,

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