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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco

Breakfast briefing: Google's Brin on China, Twitter on spam and coffeebots

• Plenty more news on Google and its relations with China, most notably (of course) our interview with co-founder Sergey Brin - who called for the US government to start putting internet censorship at the top of its list of priorities. And kicked out at Microsoft. And talked about the past four years of censorship. Anyway, on top of that, we also take an inside look at how China censors; plus there's an interview with chief legal officer David Drummond in the Atlantic, and a note from the company itself on using Google apps in China.

• Remember recently when Twitter started cracking down on spam last year? And then when it started scanning links to block dubious links? Turns out it actually had an effect: according to new figures from the Twitter team, spam has been cut massively. Good news? Can't be bad.

• It's been ages since we shared any Whole Robot Fun. No longer! Go and watch this video of a little Japanese robot making coffee, and I'll guarantee that it makes you break out into a smile.

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