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The full list of nominees for this year's Bafta awards will be announced next week. Last year's awards, Britain’s top film honours, drew criticism over the lack of diversity in the acting categories, leading to a review by the academy and changes to its membership, voting and campaigning procedures. The measures include recruiting 1,000 new members from under-represented groups to join the current 6,700-strong voting academy of film industry professionals. "We've made a number of changes to ensure ... a level playing field that every film and every performance and every director has the cha...

SHARE Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook pages on Thursday after the social media platform blocked all media content in a surprise and dramatic escalation of a dispute with the government over paying for content. The move was swiftly criticised by news producers, politicians and human rights advocates, particularly when it became clear that official health pages, emergency safety warnings and welfare networks had all been scrubbed from the site, along with news. "Facebook was wrong, Facebook's actions were unnecessary, they were heavy-handed, and they will damage its repu...

Epic Games founder and chief executive Tim Sweeney said Apple's control of its platform had tilted the level playing field. "The 30 per cent they charge as their app tax, they can make it 50 per cent or 90 per cent or 100 per cent. Under their theory of how these markets are structured, they have every right to do that," he told reporters. "Epic is not asking any court or regulator to change this 30 per cent to some other number, only to restore competition on IOS," he said, referring to Apple's mobile operating system. The company also accused Apple of barring rivals from launching their own...

SHARE News Corporation struck a global news deal with Alphabet's Google, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media company said on Wednesday, in one of the most extensive deals of its kind with big tech. The companies will develop a subscription platform, share advertising revenue through Google's ad technology services, build out audio journalism and develop video journalism by YouTube. The deal comes after years of public feuding between Murdoch and Google, most recently in Australia, where Google has threatened to shut down its search engine to avoid "unworkable" content laws. It is a capstone f...