Browsing Category
Technology
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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,…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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,…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
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…
Read More...
Read More...
Twitter blocks India’s IT minister as row rages
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…
Read More...
Read More...
Pakistan, Facebook join hands to stop Covid misinformation
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…
Read More...
Read More...
Several Media, government websites face temporary breakdown
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…
Read More...
Read More...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to take first Blue Origin flight into space
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…
Read More...
Read More...