Technology

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting a billion faceprints, its parent company said Tuesday, in response to serious concerns over privacy at the scandal-hit social media network.The announcement came as…
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Facebook was well aware that hate speech was spreading on its site in India which could exacerbate ethnic violence, and did not deploy resources to curb the phenomenon, US media reported, citing internal documents.The so-called Facebook…
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The United States successfully tested hypersonic missile technology, a new weapons system which is already being deployed by China and Russia, the US Navy said Thursday.The test, conducted Wednesday at a NASA facility in Wallops,…
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Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading…
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Facebook battled dueling crises Monday as potentially billions of users were impacted when its dominant social network went offline for seven hours, and the company fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.Many long-held…
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Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as the social media giant faces fallout over its effect on teens and misinformation.Tracker…
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The whistleblower who shared a trove of Facebook documents alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health revealed her identity Sunday in a televised interview, and accused the…
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Facebook exempts certain celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users from some its own rules for posts as part of a program launched as a quality-control mechanism, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.The program,…
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After flying its founder Richard Branson to space, Virgin Galactic is restarting ticket sales beginning at $450,000, the company announced Thursday.The new price is about double the $200,000 to $250,000 paid by around 600 people who…
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Facebook and Twitter said Monday they were scrambling to take down racially abusive comments directed at members of the England football team following a heartbreaking loss in Sunday's Euro 2020 final.The US social media giants said…
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San Francisco, July 8, 2021 (AFP) -Dozens of US states joined forces in a lawsuit filed Wednesday accusing Google of abusing its power when it comes to getting apps for Android-powered mobile devices. The litigation aimed at the Play Store…
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India's IT minister on Friday accused Twitter of briefly blocking his account because of criticisms he made of the US firm in a standoff over new social media rules.Ravi Shankar Prasad said that in a "gross violation" of Indian…
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The government of Pakistan has collaborated with Facebook to stop the spread of Covid related misinformation.Taking to Twitter, the official account of the government announced that it has "successfully partnered with Facebook to fight…
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NEW YORK: Several media, government, and social sites such as the UK government, the White House, and Reddit suffered temporary outages on Tuesday due to a glitch in cloud computing services provider Fastly. Fastly said "the issue has been…
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday he will fly into space next month on the first human flight launched by his Blue Origin rocket firm."Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will…
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