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The NSPCC is urging Snapchat to get tougher on predators targeting children amid an increase in police reports of grooming on social media messaging platforms.
Tech & Science Daily speaks with Rani Govender, the child protection charity’s policy manager specialising in online safety.
Snapchat says the company works to remove grooming content, takes “steps to prevent the offender from creating additional accounts, and report[s] them to the authorities”.
Rescue workers in Spain fear further rainfall could hamper efforts to find survivors after historic flash floods in southern Valencia.
As this podcast was published, the death toll had reached 202 after the country’s Spain’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
The security forces and soldiers are searching for an unknown number of missing people, with many feared to still be trapped in wrecked vehicles or flooded garages, while Spanish media reported that at least 40,000 people were still without power.
Also in this episode, The London Standard’s transport editor Ross Lydall reports on artificial intelligence technology being fitted to HGVs in London to prevent collisions with cyclists and pedestrians that’s being heralded as a “game changer” for safety.
Plus, childhood sugar rationing ‘could cut adult disease’, robots ‘with insect brains’ Mars mission plan, and a rare glimpse inside China’s Tiangong space station.
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