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Vanessa Ogbonna of Wexford Youths and Kellie Brennan of Athlone Town take a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement ahead of the Women’s National League match. Photograph: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile
Performative actions are not enough to tackle racism in sport

“I wear sun cream at the start of every game and every single time someone asks me why am I wearing it. And I’m like: ‘Cause the sun affects everyone’(...)

Tasia Markantonis, the manager of West Alabama Ice House in Houston, Texas, closes the tab of a customer on Friday as a television displays news coverage of US vice president Mike Pence speaking during a coronavirus task force briefing. Photograph: Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times
Coronavirus surges in US as Mike Pence cancels campaign events
  • US
  • June 28, 2020, 08:59

Five US states hit record daily highs for coronavirus cases on Saturday, and American vice president Mike Pence cancelled planned campaign events in h(...)

According to internet conspiracy theorists, the giants of the tech world are using the microphones on our smartphones to listen in to our conversations and then deploy mysterious algorithms to work out what we want. Photograph: iStock
Targeted ads: Is social media spying on us?

Have you ever been targeted by an ad for a particular product on social media just moments after you mentioned that exact product in a conversation wi(...)