Technology

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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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has allowed telecommunication operators to restore internet services in several districts of Balochistan and Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after five years. This decision was made after…
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NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own thrived. "These two sister missions both…
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The Indian government's battle with social media giants escalated Thursday with Twitter accusing the police of "intimidation" and slamming new IT rules that have also alarmed its peers and privacy campaigners. Critics say that Prime…
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The US Embassy in Islamabad has recognized Pakistani engineer Ahmad Awais for contributing code to the software for Mars 2020 helicopter mission known as NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter. Awais was praised for his efforts by the…
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has temporarily shut down all social media platforms in the country for a few hours. The blocked social media websites and apps include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. According…
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Digital payments giant Stripe on Tuesday announced the opening of an office in United Arab Emirates financial capital Dubai, its first expansion into the Middle East region. Founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison,…
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In their first appearance before Congress since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter were asked by U.S. lawmakers whether their platforms bore some responsibility for the riot: “yes…
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Facebook Inc’s platforms including online messaging service WhatsApp and photo-sharing app Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Facebook did not immediately respond to…
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Pakistan's telecom regulator blocked popular video-sharing social networking website Tiktok in the aftermath of a court order. The development comes after the Peshawar High Court (PHC) ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to…
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The United Nations called Tuesday for urgent international regulations ensuring fair conditions for workers paid via digital platforms such as food delivery apps -- a form of employment that has rocketed during the pandemic. The number…
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