Netflix Launches Mobile Games
Netflix no longer wants you to think of only television and movies when you hear its name. Next up: Netflix Games. Netflix Games is being rolled out globally today, with some of its mobile video […]
Netflix no longer wants you to think of only television and movies when you hear its name. Next up: Netflix Games. Netflix Games is being rolled out globally today, with some of its mobile video […]
More than a thousand Nicaraguan accounts on Facebook and Instagram were deleted just days before nationwide elections in Nicaragua with Meta justifying its move with claims they were part of the ruling Sandinista party’s disinformation […]
The Russian Federal Service for Supervision in Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) published in a post on its Telegram channel on Monday companies that failed to abide its content deletion requests, outlining at […]
The last week’s rebranding of Facebook Inc to “Meta” has been mocked by Israelis and Hebrew speakers and social media users worldwide since the name in question, in Hebrew, is the conjugation of the feminine […]
A it tries to move past being a scandal-plagued social network to its virtual reality vision for the future, the tech giant Facebook changed on Thursday its parent company name to “Meta”, The Hill reports. […]
An antitrust case has been launched against the US tech giant Apple for failing to provide alternative payment methods in its App Store, something the Russian regulator demanded along with its request to “stop abuse […]
The UK’s spy agencies have struck a deal with Amazon to host top-secret data material. GCHQ, which is the British equivalent of the NSA, had supported the procurement of a high-security cloud system. The system […]
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen appeared before the British government on Monday to provide testimony about the platform, as they consider new rules to impose on big social media networks. Haugen testified to MPs and peers […]
Facebook can’t get out of the hot seat. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee, released more documents over the weekend to news outlets that show the company is aware of many of the harms […]
The NCSC (National Counterintelligence and Security Center) on Friday mentioned that it will prioritize the industry outreach efforts in the US technology sectors that are the most important for the economic and national security, and […]
Facebook is in the hot seat once again. The social media platform has just shelled out $14 million in order to settle a US discrimination lawsuit. The Justice Department accused Facebook of discriminating against US […]
After Facebook did not take advantage of the postponement granted by the Russian courts and did not pay the fine for refusing to delete the content considered illegal in Russia, the Russian Federal Bailiffs Service […]
The social network for professional contacts LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, will stop operating a localized version of the platform in China amid increasing censorship on the Internet in that country, CNBC reports. The […]
Kamala Harris, US Vice President has used child actors in the first installment for a YouTube space series, Fox News informed. The series named “Get Curious with Vice President Harris,” is aimed at sparking an […]
After a massive outage that pushed them offline for several hours on Monday, Facebook and several of its social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are almost completely recovered, The Hill reports. According […]
iPhone users: Remove Visa as a transport card on your Apple Pay. That’s the latest advice from researchers and experts, who have said they have uncovered a flaw that would allow hackers to bypass security […]
YouTube announced Wednesday that it will be banning misleading and inaccurate content about vaccines in order to stop the spread of misinformation. The platform said that its current community guidelines already prohibit the sharing of […]
Both Democrat and Republican senators have shown interest in hearing what the Facebook Inc. whistleblower scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing next week has to say on the toxic effects on young users the […]
As Russia goes to the polls on Friday (17 September) to elect a new parliament, Alphabet’s Google and Apple announced they have removed the Navalny tactical voting app from their stores, Euractive reports. Moscow has […]
The penalties for IT companies will be increased if they continue to ignore the injunctions of Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media watchdog, the State Duma has threatened. The idea of strengthening the punishment was triggered mainly by […]
It’s time to stop automatically hitting “install later” and immediately update your iPhone software. No, really. Apple has issued an emergency software update after discovering a flaw in the system that allowed spyware to infect […]
Russian court is poised to slap three social media giants, Facebook, Telegram and Twitter with fresh bout of fines amounting to almost $1 million, for refusing to delete prohibited content, Russian media report. They are […]
The US internet giant Google announced on Tuesday it will invest more than $1 billion in expansion of its cloud data centres and renewable energy facilities, marking a further step towards Germany’s digital sovereignty, Euractiv […]
Using silver and copper nano layers, researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have created a face covering that allegedly neutralizes Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, , The Straits Times reports. According […]
Following other countries that have decided to require a parallel private 5G network, Brazil announced 5G auction to be held in October inviting all major 5G technology developers, The Brazilian Reports writes. Australia and the […]
Unjected, the new social media dating app promoted as a matchmaker for those opposed to getting vaccinated against Covid-19, has been removed from Apple Store with the company claiming that it was referring inappropriately to […]
NASA postponed until at least Aug. 3 its launch of Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner capsule scheduled on July 30 after the International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday after Russian […]
US President Joe Biden is set to sign new executive order on Friday, that is aimed at curbing anti-competitive practices in the Big Tech, the labor sector, and many other sectors, CNBC informed. The order, […]
The Department of Defense on Tuesday revealed that it is canceling a $10 billion cloud agreement that was in the center of a legal fight that included Amazon and Microsoft, CNBC informed. The Department also […]
After its 4th of July launch and after attracting more than 500,000 people to sign up, the new social media platform Gettr’, brainchild of Trump ex-spokesman Jason Miller, was briefly targeted by hackers, Reuters reported, […]
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