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Lebanon says Israeli GPS jamming confounding ground, air traffic
Lebanon says Israeli GPS jamming confounding ground, air traffic
by  AFP

Uber driver Hussein Khalil was battling traffic in Beirut when he found himself in the Gaza Strip -- according to his online map, anyway -- as location jamming blamed on Israel disrupts life in Lebanon. Numerous residents have reported their online map location as appearing at Beirut airport while they were actually elsewhere in the capital.

What's behind the dispute between Benin and Niger?
What's behind the dispute between Benin and Niger?
by  AFP

Benin and Niger are locked in a growing diplomatic row that has damaged their economies and seen Niger's military rulers switch off a key oil pipeline. Niger's military rulers, though, have refused to reopen their side.

'Google is broken': How an algorithm tweak cost livelihoods
'Google is broken': How an algorithm tweak cost livelihoods
by  AFP

Google made major changes to its search algorithm and spam filters earlier this year to get rid of low-quality content -- but the effects have proved devastating to some smaller websites. The US firm is notoriously secretive about its algorithms -- so much so that an entire industry known as "search engine optimisation" has grown up trying to game the algorithm to get more clicks.

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