Tech & Science Daily: Kanye to buy ‘free speech’ site Parler

Kanye West has begun the process of buying alternative messaging platform Parler after his Twitter and Instagram accounts were locked (Jonathan Brady/PA)
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Rachelle Abbott17 October 2022

Kanye West has apparently reached an agreement to buy the social media platform Parler.

The current owner Parlement Technologies said it had reached an agreement in principle to sell the "pioneering un-cancelable free speech platform" to the rapper.

The social media site only returned to the Google Play Store last month, having been removed for allowing posts that seek "to incite ongoing violence in the US" - after the Capitol riots in January last year.

The founders of BioNTech, who helped to develop one of the key covid vaccines with Pfizer have said cancer vaccines could be accessible for patients by 2030.

German couple Professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci admitted this month that they are hesitant to say they can find a cure for cancer, but said they have had “breakthroughs” they will keep working on.

The CEO of a company planning to build Europe's ‘first smart-city, with a net-zero footprint’ has said he wants to create a city that is sustainable, efficient and resilient to climate change.

Odisseas Athanasiou, CEO of Lamda Development, said the project will use advanced smart-city infrastructures like electric transport, AR navigation, and smart energy and water management systems.

Six UK universities are joining a scientific mission to learn more about the origins of our universe. The experiment known as ‘The Simons Observatory’ is all about looking at the ‘cosmic microwave background’ in space, which is the trail of heat left by the Big Bang.

Plus: Razer unveils new ‘edge’ handheld cloud-gaming console, scientists at Plymouth University are due to examine how mushrooms become ‘magic’, research shows young LGBTQI+ people ‘nearly twice as likely’ to encounter hate speech online, and is Apple planning to make the iPad a ‘smart hub’?

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