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Ministry of National Health Services partners with TikTok for COVID-19 prevention
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services has partnered with TikTok to create awareness and ensure prevention of the coronavirus, as per a press release issued by the ministry Wednesday.
As a part of the campaign titled…
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Pakistani youth can benefit from technology transfer in IT & Telecom : PM
roup CEO of Veon (Multinational Telecommunication Services Company) Mr. Kaan Terzio?lu called on Prime Minister Imran Khan. The Prime Minister stated that the youth of Pakistan can greatly benefit from leading international IT & Telecom…
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Satellite attack: the mounting arms race in space
Last year a US general made an ominous revelation: two Russian satellites in orbit were stalking a US spy satellite high above the earth.
It wasn't clear if the Cosmos satellites could attack USA-245, an American surveillance spacecraft.…
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Hackers targeted Afghan officials on Facebook amid Taliban offensive
Facebook revealed Tuesday it had worked to block a hacker group that targeted the accounts of people tied to Afghanistan's then-government and security forces as the Taliban was moving in to take power.
The Pakistan-based group, known as…
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Facebook ending facial recognition use over privacy fears
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 failing to contain anti-Muslim hate speech in India: reports
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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US conducts ‘successful’ test of hypersonic missile technology
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 announces 10,000 EU jobs to build ‘metaverse’
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 fights global outage and whistleblower revelations
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, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by outage: tracker
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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Facebook whistleblower reveals identity, says firm chooses profit over safety”
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 shields VIPs from some of its rules : report
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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Virgin Galactic restarting space tickets from $450,000
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, Twitter vow to tackle racial abuse of England footballers
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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Dozens of US states file suit against Google
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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