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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for the right to use their content. Google’s threat escalates a battle with publishers such as News Corp that is being closely watched around the world. The search giant had warned that its 19 million Australian users would face degraded search and YouTube experiences if the new code… Source link

An Austrian town, famed for it’s name, will be renamed come January 1 next year, after locals reportedly got sick of English-speakers sniggering and stealing signs. F**king, a village of some 100 people located 350km from Vienna will change its name in the new year to ‘Fugging’ the local council has revealed. The municipal council revealed the name change will take effect on January 1. As it turns out the locals were growing tired of English-speaking tourists stopping off to take photos… Source link

Former President Barack Obama had a successful coaching career a while back, leading his daughter’s elementary school team to a championship. But not everyone was impressed a coach was giving his attention to only one team and the career became short-lived. Obama shared the story in his new memoir, “A Promised Land,” that was released Tuesday. The Sunday Times released the book excerpt about coaching and Entertainment Weekly acquired the audio version. Obama is a basketball aficionado… Source link

The football career of Journey Brown has come to an end. The Penn State running back, who emerged as a star late in the 2019 season, announced Wednesday night that he has been diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. According to the Mayo Clinic, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is “a disease in which the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick” and “can make it harder for the heart to pump blood.” The heart condition has forced Brown to medically retire from the game of football. “The… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Google has removed three popular apps from the Google Play Store after it was discovered the apps violated laws surrounding data collection efforts on children. The apps in question, Princess Salon, Number Coloring and Cats & Cosplay, were determined to have violated “broader Google Play policies around data collection,” according to a statement from the International Digital Accountability Council. It… Source link

Women in India in 1870 – new research by a Harvard professor explores sexuality under British authorities In 1868, police in the British-ruled Indian city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) sent a woman called Sukhimonee Raur to prison for evading a genital examination which had been made compulsory for “registered” sex workers. Under the colonial Contagious Diseases Act, designed to contain the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, sex workers had to “register themselves at police stations, get… Source link

Google, Facebook and other digital platforms could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if they fail to comply with a news media bargaining code released by Australia’s competition regulator on Friday. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was asked to develop the mandatory code in April by the treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, after negotiations between the digital platforms, the ACCC and media companies stalled, and media companies experienced a sharp fall in… Source link