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The standard for public code is a set of criteria that supports public organisations in developing and maintaining software and policy together

"It has been 30 years since toys started talking back to kids - in the form of the cassette-playing robot bear Teddy Ruxpin"

"Croquet eliminates dedicated servers and server-side code from online multiuser apps. Instead, users connect through our worldwide network of public reflectors. Every input is mirrored by the reflector to a shared virtual computer that runs bit-identical across every client, so everyone stays perfectly in sync"

"The BBC is doing cutting-edge research into Visual Perceptive Media, virtual reality and facial coding technologies. But do we want our shows to be tailored to our age, gender, and tastes? And what happens to all that data?"

"The Data Transfer Initiative invests dedicated engineering and product resources to the design and implementation of data transfer tools. These contributions will continue to be maintained in an open source GitHub repository to encourage broader adoption of and contributions to the code base"

"A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook's censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression."

Researchers say Google's ad-targeting system sometimes makes troubling decisions based on data about gender and other personal characteristics.

"Nearly three years after the company was called out, it hasn't gone beyond a quick workaround"