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From hate speech to nudity, Facebook's oversight board picks its first cases.

From hate speech to nudity, Facebook's oversight board picks its first cases

The board, which Facebook created in response to criticism of its handling of problematic content, said it had received 20,000 cases since it opened its doors in October.

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Amazon's cloud unit taps own chips for new supercomputing offering.

Amazon’s cloud unit taps own chips for new supercomputing offering

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Amazon delves deeper into voice recognition, call-center work as COVID-19 drives cloud.

Amazon delves deeper into voice recognition, call-center work as COVID-19 drives cloud

Reuters Amazon used the event to launch many unrelated products including Trainium, which targets Nvidia Corp's core business of powerful chips to train machine learning algorithms.

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Hackers can trick scientists into creating deadly viruses.

Hackers can trick scientists into creating deadly viruses

Aditya Saroha The team said hackers do not need to be physically present in order to access any dangerous substance.

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Last week, Instagram Live views grew 60% compared to the week prior, the company said.

Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ feature

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The Facebook-owned social networking platform introduced Instagram Live in November 2016, which allowed users to broadcast live videos for up to an hour.

In October, Reuters reported Amazon and Big Tech were cozying up to the Biden administration with cash and connections.

Biden urged by 32 advocacy groups to reject Big Tech influence

Reuters The letter urged that the Biden administration exclude executives, lobbyists and consultants working for or with companies such as Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet-owned Google, Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp.

The new tax would come into effect on Jan. 1, 2022, and remain in place until a common approach is agreed upon.

Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as Facebook, Google

Reuters Canada said it was concerned about a delay in reaching agreement. The threat of digital services taxes has prompted threats of trade retaliation from outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.

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At present, the South Korean tech giant does not have plans to develop a new version of the Galaxy Note for 2021, three sources said, declining to be identified as the plans were not public

Samsung may discontinue high-end Galaxy Note smartphones

Reuters The Galaxy Note, known for its large screen and a stylus for note-taking, is one of two Samsung premium phone series — the other being the more compact Galaxy S that draws in consumers with its state-of-the-art parts

Intel reveals M15 laptop powered by its 11th generation core i5, i7 processors. | Picture by special arrangement.

Intel reveals M15 laptop powered by its 11th generation core i5, i7 processors

Ishan Patra The M15 laptop has a 15.6-inch screen, weighs under 1.7 kg, and features a 73 watt-hour battery that is capable of delivering up to 16 hours of video playback.

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Google Chrome to deliver a complete dark mode experience

BMW's 'Vision Urbanaut' can transform a car into a living space

Former Tesla employee to pay $400,000 to end lawsuit over tips to reporters

China drafts rules on mobile apps' collection of personal data

From hate speech to nudity, Facebook's oversight board picks its first cases

Amazon delves deeper into voice recognition, call-center work as COVID-19 drives cloud

Qualcomm announces new flagship 5G smartphone chips

It is the first time Samsung, which competes fiercely with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), has made Qualcomm's flagship chip on its new 5-nanometer process for smartphones.

Amazon’s cloud unit taps own chips for new supercomputing offering

Supercomputing helps with tasks such as weather forecasting, medical research and modeling aerodynamics for cars without a wind tunnel. But systems remain expensive and mostly operated by governments and research centers.

Twitter tags Amit Malviya’s tweet as ‘manipulated media’

Twitter labels or removes content from its platform if they are found deceptive, altered or fabricated.

Salesforce to buy workplace app Slack in $27.7 billion deal

Slack changed workplace communications by focusing on real-time messaging that could be broken into conversations with groups assembled on the fly.

Hackers can trick scientists into creating deadly viruses

The team said hackers do not need to be physically present in order to access any dangerous substance.

App tracking feature, and the feud between Apple and Facebook

Apple accused Facebook of using detailed data about online browsing activity to target ads and to allow grouping of users into smaller segments.

How AI judges video games by their covers

Researchers used a multi-modal deep learning framework to train an artificial intelligence (AI) system to judge a video game by analysing its cover.

Samsung may discontinue high-end Galaxy Note smartphones

The Galaxy Note, known for its large screen and a stylus for note-taking, is one of two Samsung premium phone series — the other being the more compact Galaxy S that draws in consumers with its state-of-the-art parts

Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ feature

The Facebook-owned social networking platform introduced Instagram Live in November 2016, which allowed users to broadcast live videos for up to an hour.

FAU-G pre-registration opens, gamers post app incompatibility issues

Many gamers took to the micro-blogging platform to voice their concerns when they were not able to pre-register for the game.

Biden urged by 32 advocacy groups to reject Big Tech influence

The letter urged that the Biden administration exclude executives, lobbyists and consultants working for or with companies such as Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet-owned Google, Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp.

Zoom's margins dented by booming free user base, cloud costs

Zoom operates some of its own data centers, but it also relies on cloud computing services from outside vendors such as Amazon.com and Oracle Corp, meaning it must bear costs for free users.

Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as Facebook, Google

Canada said it was concerned about a delay in reaching agreement. The threat of digital services taxes has prompted threats of trade retaliation from outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.

Italy's antitrust fines Apple 10 mln euros for misleading commercial practices

Apple advertised that several iPhone models were water-resistant without clarifying they were only so under certain conditions.

This is the most commonly used password in 2020

Weak passwords can lead to brute-force attacks, which allows hackers to guess combinations by punching random phrases or codes using cryptography. Using a single password across multiple accounts also leads to password-spraying.

Microsoft Teams will stop working on Internet Explorer 11 from today

However, Microsoft assured that customers will get the most out of Microsoft 365 when using the new Microsoft Edge.

Inside the vault of Britain’s secret service agency

Historian John Ferris walks us through the major turning points of espionage technologies, and why we should want to know more about them

‘Yakuza: Like a Dragon’ review: Same Yakuza, different play

The latest from this much-loved gangster video game line-up takes the series into a bold new direction

83% of Indian employees worried about returning to office without COVID-19 vaccine, study says

Indian employees are rapidly adopting digital toolkits and skills with a concern of being left behind as remote working has accelerated the move to a digital-first environment.

Google’s new AI feature tells phones when to scroll

Through Smart Scrolling, the user can scroll through the keywords or tap on them to quickly navigate to the sections of interest.

Britain bans new Huawei 5G kit installation from September 2021

Monday's announcement comes ahead of a debate over new telecoms legislation in parliament and fleshes out the timeline for equipment removal.

Merriam-Webster announces top word of 2020

If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be?

Weekly Bytes | Microsoft 365's new features, Meet’s attendance reports, and more

Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size.

Facebook cryptocurrency Libra to launch as early as January but scaled back: FT

The move would represent an even bigger scaling-back of the project's ambitions than that proposed in April in response to a regulatory and political backlash against the project.

Tesla could widen release of ‘self-driving’ software in two weeks

In October, Tesla released a beta, or test version, of what it calls a “Full Self Driving” software upgrade to an undisclosed number of “expert, careful” drivers.

Google Pay ends support for old apps, adds transfer fee in U.S.

There will be a 1.5% fee on any transfer made using a debit card

How a machine learning model collects data without compromising privacy?

Federated learning is said to have application in healthcare, where hospitals and pharmaceutical companies can exchange data for treating diseases without sharing private clinical information.

Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam to minimise China risk

Foxconn is building assembly lines for Apple's iPad tablet and MacBook laptop at its plant in Vietnam's northeastern Bac Giang province, to come online in the first half of 2021.

U.N. decries police use of racial profiling derived from Big Data

Many police use “predictive” profiling systems that lead to identity checks, traffic stops and searches, based on previous arrest data about a neighbourhood.

Britain to curb Google and Facebook with tougher competition rules

Google and Facebook dominate digital advertising, accounting for around 80% of 14 billion pounds spent in 2019, Britain's competition regulator the CMA said.

Researchers use AI to create the Milky Way’s family tree

Over the course of its history, the Milky Way cannibalised about five galaxies with more than 100 million stars, and about fifteen with at least 10 million stars.

Xiaomi, Boat earbuds top India's wireless hearable shipment list, report says

The overall wireless hearables shipment grew over 700% in the quarter compared with the previous year as working and studying from home continued to boost demand, the report noted.

Microsoft Office files in iOS devices can be edited using Google Workspace

The availability of Office editing on iOS will allow users to edit, comment, and collaborate using powerful real-time tools.

France orders tech giants to pay digital tax

France last year applied a 3% levy on revenue from digital services earned in France by companies with revenues of more than 25 million euros here and 750 million euros worldwide.

SpaceX to press ahead with Starlink tests, delays commercial service

Elon Musk has said the Starlink service will be a crucial source of funding for his broader plans, like developing the super heavy-lift Starship rocket to fly paying customers to the moon and eventually trying to colonize Mars.

Tesla plans to produce electric car chargers in China, document shows

The factory, which Tesla expects to complete in February, will have capacity to make 10,000 chargers a year, according to the document submitted by Tesla.

Curbs hit China supplies for iPhone

BIS started delaying approvals in August for China-made imports of devices like smartphones, smartwatches and laptops, part of the fallout from deteriorating ties with China after a border clash in June that left 20 Indian soldiers dead.

Hackers can turn vacuum cleaners into spying devices, NUS researchers say

The team recorded over 19 hours of audio and were able to collect both spoken digits and music played by a computer speaker and TV soundbar, with over 90% accuracy, it said.

MIT, Harvard team develop new model to improve AI-based decision making

The evidence produced by the neural network, directly captures the model’s confidence in its prediction, and includes any uncertainty present in the input data, as well as in the model’s final decision.

Microsoft Flight Simulator gets new airports, visual enhancements in U.S. update

Gamers will also be able to experience the visual enhancements made to 48 other airports, 50 new points of interest across the country, and new activities on each coast.

Google Nest Audio review: An ideal buy for a first smart-home experience

The Nest Audio is a welcome and affordable addition to Google’s growing smart-home ecosystem

Google’s ‘Verse by Verse’ can help you write poetry

Users can choose up to three poets from a list of popular poets including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, and others.

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